SALIMOTH (B 2oXeiAtw9, X'ha<ta\iii<ie, due to • wTong division of syllables in the names 'Barl | aa-ZaX^ix^e, AV Assalimoth), 1 Es i^. Called Shelomith, Ezr S"".
SALLAI (•'rg).— 1. The eponym of a Benjamit* family which settled at Jerusalem after the Return, Neh 11* (-ri\ei). 2. The name of a priestly family, Xeh 12-" (Bx*A om., K°* SoXXoi), called in V.' Sallu.
SALLU. — 1. The eponym of a Benjamite family which settled at Jerusalem after the Return, 1 Ch 9' (.x!i'5; B :SaXiiM, A Za\u), Neh 11' (»)i; B IriKu, ^"^ • Zri\uii). 2. The name of a priestly famUv, Nell 12' (i^p; Bn*A om., «■=• • 2«X«uoi), called in v.^" Sallai.
SALLUMUS (XiWoviiOi), lEs 9»=Shallum, Ea
10-^ ; called Salum, 1 Es S'^.
SALMA.— See Salmon.
SALMAI ('n^i?).— The eponym of a family ol Nethinim, Neli 7^ (B •Za.Xa^el, A 2eXAie(, N SaMoeO, called in Ezr 2" Shamlai (Kere -h.^v ; Kethibh •■q)^ followed by AV text Shalmai ; B ZanaAv, A X<Xa^), and in 1 Es ^ SuBAI.
SALMANASAR (Salmanauir).—2'EA 13«=ShAI^ MANESKK (which see).
SALMON, or SALMA dto'-;- Ru 4", np^tr Rn 4» K-^-i- 1 Cli 2" "" »'• ", LXX SaXMttK Ru B, 1 Ch 2"A ; ■faXfuibv Ru A, 1 Ch 2" B ; SaXw^w"' 1 Ch 2'»- " ; NT SaX^iix with variant Za\i ({<* B Aeth. ) in Lk 3").— The father of Boaz and son of Nahshon of the tribe of Judah (RU4*-"), and therefore in the direct line of the ancestry of our Lord (Mt I*-', Lk S**). If the Salma of 1 Ch 2»>- " is the same iierson, he was the 'father' or 'founder' of Beth- lehem, but it is to be noticed that that Salma ia reckoned as one of the sons of Caleb the son of Hur.* From Mt P we learn that Salmon married Rahab. The Salma of 1 Ch 2" had maiy descend-
• This cannot mean in any case that Salma va* lit«t&1} ■ 8on o( Caleb.
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aQtfl, — Bethlehem and the Netophathites, Atroth- beth-Joab, and half of the Manaliathites, the Zor- ites, — but the text of the verse seems to have been corrupted. Some have wished to distinguish be- tween Salma and Salmon, in order to lengthen the genealogj', but it is scarcely to be conceived that a oiUerent person is intended in the two consecutive verses of Ruth (4^- ■^). As to the genealogy of Christ, Eusebius (HE ii. 7) asserts quite distinctly that genealogical tables of various families, such as that of David, were in existence up to the time of the Herods. That this is possible may be gathered from the care exercised at the time of the return from the Babylonish captivity about noting tliose who 'could not show their fathers' houses, and their seed, whether they were of Israel ' (Ezr 2*. cf. Keh 7").
H. A. Redpath. SALMONE (2a^/uil'^); Salmone). — The name of a promontory at the N.E. end of Crete, now Cape Sidero, on which stood a temple of Athene. The Alexandrian ship in which St. Paul sailed from MjTa for Italy, aft«rreachingCnidus with difficulty, mjt the full force of the N.W. wind, and could not continue her voyage on the direct track, which passed close to the southern points of Morea. The captain, consequently', determined to alter her course and, when oU (Kard) Salmone (Ac 27'), to work his way westward under the lee of Crete. The arguments in favour of a N. W. wind, and its influence on tlie course of the ship, are well stated by Smith of Jordanhill {Voyage and Shijuereck of St. Paul, p. 35). C. W. \\ ILSON.
8AL0AS (B ZdXSat, A 2oX(5at, AV Talsaa, from the Aid.), 1 Es 9~=Elasah, Ezr lO**.
SALOM. — A Greek form (SaXii/i) of the name Khallu.m (ciW). Us only application in EV is to Salom, the father of IlUkiali, Bar 1'.
8AL0ME(2aX(i;[ii)).—l. The daughter of Herodiaa, Mt 14^-'=, Mk 6"--; see Herod, vol. ii. pp. 355, 300. 2. A woman present at the crucifixion, Mk 15*°, and afterwards a visitor at the sepulchre, Mk 10'. The comparison of the former passage with Mt 27°' leaves little doubt that aiie was also the wife of Zebedee, and, if bo, she figures in the incident of Mt 2iJ»-='. Nothing else is known of her, though there are many conjectures, of which the principal is that she was a sister of Mary, the mother of Jesus. In support of that view may be cited a reading of the Peshitta version of Jn 10^ (cf. also the Jerus. Syr. lectionary), and a presumptive unlikelihood, on account of the BimUarity of the names, that Mary the wife of Clopas was a sister of the mother of Jesus. James and John would thus Ije the cousins of Jesus, and the silence of the NT as to so close a relationship becomes significant. ' Many other women ' were present at the crucifixion, Sik 15" ; and amongst these unnamed disciples must probably be sought the sister of Mary, tlie identification with Salome being precarious in the extreme, and sustained by no real evidence. See, further, art. Mauy, vol. iiL p. 278 f. K. W. Moss.
SALT (n^7, aXo«, 4Xt). — This mineral (sodium chloride) is in such general use as a condiment to food amongst all civilized nations that it has become a necessity ; and undoubtedly it is bene- ficial in the animal economy as an antiseptic, and a preventive to the development of intestinal worms. Even wild animals feel its necessity as well as domestic cattle; and it is well known that in former times when the bison roamed in immense herds over the plains of North America they made long journeys to the 'salt-licks,' or salinas, for