Bible Dictionary
Salmon
Salmon was the father of Boaz and an ancestor of Jesus Christ. The name also identifies a wooded hill near Shechem mentioned in Judges and Psalms.
Definition
Salmon is the name of the father of Boaz and also of a wooded hill near Shechem. As a personal name, Salmon may be the same person as Salma; as a geographical name, it designates a dark or shady mountain.
Biblical Usage
Salmon the man appears in the ancestry of Jesus through Boaz. The hill Salmon is mentioned in connection with Abimelech’s gathering of wood and in the imagery of Psalm 68.
Historical Background
The hill is identified with the modern Jebel Suleiman, though its exact position is not known in the supplied material. It was south of Shechem and covered with dark forests.
Scripture References
Related Figures
Historical Bible Dictionaries
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Garment, the son of Nashon (Ruth 4:20; Matt. 1:4, 5), possibly the same as Salma in 1 Chr. 2:51.
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 (Judg. 9:48). In Ps. 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 snow. The reference, however, of the psalm is probably to Josh. 11 and 12. The scattering of the kings and their followers is fitly likened unto the snow-flakes rapidly falling on the dark Salmon. It is the modern Jebel Suleiman.
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 (Judg. 9:48). In Ps. 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 snow. The reference, however, of the psalm is probably to Josh. 11 and 12. The scattering of the kings and their followers is fitly likened unto the snow-flakes rapidly falling on the dark Salmon. It is the modern Jebel Suleiman.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
the father of Boar. [Salma, Or Salmon] a hill near Shechem, on which Abimelech and his followers cut down the boughs with which they set the tower of Shechem on fire. (Judges 9:48) Its exact position is not known. Referred to in (Psalms 68:14)