Salmanasar (Hastings' Dictionary)

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.

SiVLMOXE SALT, CITY OF 355 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**.