- SALA a shoot, a descendant of Arphaxed (Luke 3:35, 36); called also
Shelah (1 Chronicles 1:18, 24). - SALAMIS a city on the south-east coast of Cyprus (Acts 13:5), where
Saul and Barnabas, on their first missionary journey, preached the word in
one of the Jewish synagogues, of which there seem to have been several in
that place. It is now called Famagusta. - SALATHIEL whom I asked of God, the son of Jeconiah (Matthew 1:12; 1
Chronicles 3:17); also called the son of Neri (Luke 3:27). The probable
explanation of the apparent discrepancy is that he was the son of Neri, the
descendant of Nathan, and thus heir to the throne of David on the death of
Jeconiah (comp. Jeremiah 22:30). - SALCAH wandering, a city of Bashan assigned to the half tribe of
Manasseh (Deuteronomy 3:10; Joshua 12:5; 13:11), identified with
Salkhad, about 56 miles east of Jordan. - SALEM peace, commonly supposed to be another name of Jerusalem
(Genesis 14:18; Psalm 76:2; Hebrews 7:1, 2). - SALIM peaceful, a place near AEnon (q.v.), on the west of Jordan, where
John baptized (John 3:23). It was probably the Shalem mentioned in
Genesis 33:18, about 7 miles south of AEnon, at the head of the great
Wady Far’ah, which formed the northern boundary of Judea in the Jordan
valley. - SALLAI basket-maker. (1.) A Benjamite (Nehemiah 11:8).
(2.) A priest in the days of Joshua and Zerubbabel (Nehemiah 12:20).
- SALLU weighed. (1.) A priest (Nehemiah 12:7).
(2.) A Benjamite (1 Chronicles 9:7; Nehemiah 11:7).
- SALMON garment, the son of Nashon (Ruth 4:20; Matthew 1:4, 5),
possibly the same as Salma in 1 Chronicles 2:51. - SALMON shady; or Zalmon (q.v.), a hill covered with dark forests, south
of Shechem, from which Abimelech and his men gathered wood to burn
that city (Judges 9:48). In Psalm 68:14 the change from war to peace is
likened to snow on the dark mountain, as some interpret the expression.
Others suppose the words here mean that the bones of the slain left
unburied covered the land, so that it seemed to be white as if covered with