3. Father of Jehucal or Jucal, which latter Zedekiah ordered to request Jeremiah to intercede for the city (Jer. xxxvii, 3; xxxviii, 1). B.C. ante 589.
4. vSon of Hailaniah and father of Irijah, which latter arrested Jeremiah as he was leaving the city (Jer. xxxvii, 13). B.C. ante 589.
5. Son of Abdeel and one of those ordered to appre- hend Baruch and Jeremiah (Jer. xxxvi, 26). B.C. 604.
6. One of the "sons" of Bani who renounced their Gentile wives after the captivity (Ezra x, 39). B.C. 458.
7. Another of the " sons" of Bani who did the same (Ezra X, 41). B.C. 458.
8. Father of the Hananiah who repaired part of the walls of Jerusalem (Neh. iii, 30). B.C. ante 446. He is perhaps the same as "one of the apothecaries," i. e. manufacturers of the sacred incense, who is mentioned in Neh. iii, 8 as the father of Hananiah.
9. A priest appointed by Nehemiah as commissary of the Levitical tithes (Neh. xiii, 13). B.C. cir. 434.
She'leph (Heb. id. C)b'i3, but always occurring " in pause" as Sha'h'ph, w|t3TiJ, « drawivg-forth ; Sept. 2n\f^ V. r. SaXtS, etc.), the second named of the thirteen sons
of Joktan (Gen. x, 26 ; 1 Chron. i, 20). B.C. much post 2515. The tribe which sprang from him has been sat- isfactorily identified, both in modern and classical times, as well as the district of the Yemen named after him. It has been shown in other articles [see Arabia; Jok- tan, etc.] that the evidence of Joktan's colonization of Southern Arabia is indisputably proved, and that it has received the assent of critics. Shclcph is found where we should expect to meet with him, in the district (IMikh- li'if, as the ancient divisions of the Yemen are called hy the Arabs) of Sidaf {Mardsid, s. v.), which appears to be the same as Niebuhr's Sdlfie {Descr. p. 215), writ- ten in his map Se/Jia, with the vowels, probably, iSulaJl- yeh. Niebuhr says of it, " Grande etendue de pays gou- vernee par sept schechs." It is situate in N. lat. 14° 30', and about sixty miles nearly south of San'ii. Besides this geographical trace of Sheleph, we have the triije of Shelif, or iShulaJ] of which the first notice appeared in the Zeitschrift. d. deiitschen morgenldndischen Gesell- schaft, xi, 153, b\- Dr. Osiander, and to which we are in- debted for the following information, YakiU, in the Moajam, s. v., says, " Es-Selif or Es-Sulaf is an an- cient tribe of the region of Yemen ; Hisham Ibn-Mo- hammed says they are the children of Yuktan [Joktan], and Yuktiin was the son of Eber the son of Salah the son of Arphaxad the son of Shem the son of Noah. . . . And a district in El- Yemen is named after the Sulaf." El-Kalkasander (in the British Museum Library) says, "El-Sulaf, called also Benies-Silfan, a tribe of the de- scendants of Kahtiin [Joktan]. . . . The name of their father has remained with them, and they are called Es- Sulaf: they are children of Es-Sulaf, son of Yuktan, who is Kahtan. . . . Es-Sulaf originally signifies one of the little ones of the partridge, and Es-Silfan is its plural; the tribe was named after that on account of transla- tion." Yakut also says (s. v. " Muntabik") that El-Mun- tabik was an idol belonging to Es-Sulaf. Finally, ac- cording to the Kamus (and the Liihb-el-Lubdb, cited in the Mardsid, s. v.), Sulaf was a branch-tribe of Dhu-1- Kilaa [a Himyeritic family or tribe (Caussin, Essai, i, 113), not to be confounded with the later king, or Tub- baa of that name]. This identification is conclusively satisfactory, especially when we recollect that Hazarma- veth (Hadramaut), Sheba (Seba), and other Joktanitic names are in the immediate neighborhood. It is strengthened, if further evidence were required, by the classical mention of the ^aXaTnp'oi, Salapeni, also writ- ten 'A\airr]voi, A hqieni (Ptolem)', vi, 7). Bochart puts forward this people with rare brevity {Opera, i, 99). The more recent researches in Arabic MSS. have, as we have shown, confirmed in this instance his theory ; for we do not lay much stress on the point that Ptolemy's Salapeni are placed by him in N, lat. 22°. — Smith. Forster endeavors {Geogr. of Arabia, i, 109) to identify the descendants of Sheleph with the Meteir tribe, whose chief residence is in Kasim, in the province of Nejd (Burckhardt, Bedouin, p. 233) ; but for this there ap- pears to be no sufficient evidence. — Kitto.
She'lesh (Heb. id. lab^, triad [Gesenius], or might [Fiirst] ; Sept. ^eWt'ig v. r. Zej/o/), third named of the four sons of Helem the brother of Shamer, or Shomer, an Asherite (1 Chron. vii, 35 ). B.C. apparently cir. 1015.
Shel'omi [some Shelo'mi'] (Heb. Shelomi', "^^SUJ, peaceful; Sept. StXfjui), father of Ahihud. which latter was the Asherite commissioner to distril)iite the land east of the Jordan (Numb, xxxiv, 27). B.C. ante 1618.
Shel'omith [some Shelo'mi/h] (Heb. Shelomith', ni5a5i:: or [Ezra viii, 10] Vi'^'O'ibiTli, peaceful [strictly a fem. form of Shelomi'\ ; twice Shelomoth', ni^'PllJ [1 Chron. xxiii, 9; xxvi, 25], in both which places, how- ever, the Keri has rr^TS'bd [ver. 26]), the name of four or five Hebrews and two or three Hebrewesses.
1. (Sept. 'SaXwfuiSr.) A Danite female, daughter of Dibri, wife of an Egyptian, and mother of the man who