The one and only Salmon of the Bible is mentioned three times, once in the Old Testament and twice in the New. Of course there is no difficulty in reconciling these two parts of the tables. Now it is to be remembered that the Jews were fully competent to show that these tables were incorrect, if they were really so; and it is clear that they were fully disposed, if possible, to do it. Note the striking nod to this name in the scene where the men who stoned Stephen laid their robes at the feet of young Saul, later Paul (Acts 7:58): The unused verb שמל (samal) probably meant to enclose or envelop (it does so in related languages). Basil, T. Bab. 2. Ed. Jacob and Heli were therefore children of the same mother. 2. The fact, therefore, that it is not done, is clear evidence that they thought it to be correct. Noun שמלה (simla) describes an outer mantle or robe. So, the tables here are good evidence to the only point that the writers wished to establish: that is, to show to the Jews that Jesus of Nazareth was descended from David. Salmon may have married Rahab the Harlot, who sheltered the two Israelite spies in Jericho. They were both descended from David, but in different lines.

It cannot, however, be proved that this was not the design of Luke. Midrash Ruth, fol. 8. Tzeror Hammor, fol. & 132. 2. 2. Salmon is a person in the Hebrew Bible.His name can be pronounced Salmon or Salmah.He is the son of Nahshon, and married with Rahab of Jericho, by whom he had Boaz. 2. 47. The only inquiry which can now be fairly made is whether they copied those tables correctly. 1. It's not clear how this ancestor of Christ was known by his contemporaries because, for some evenly obscure reason, his name evolves from שלמא (Salma') in 1 Chronicles 2:11 to שלמה (Salma) in Ruth 4:20 and finally becomes שלמון (Salmon) in Ruth 4:21. Referred to in (Psalms 68:14) ATS Bible Dictionary. (u) Targ. - Matthew 1:5 (NASB), Some interpreters of this New Testament verse suggest that Rahab the Harlot and Rahab the mother of Boaz are not the same woman.[2]. ((w) Targ. Jesse is thought to be, not the immediate son of Obed, but to be of the fourth generation from him; though no others are mentioned between them in Ruth, any more than here. Salmon. fol. The difficulty lies in that part of the genealogy from David to Christ. 10. But though this solution is plausible, and may be true, yet it wants evidence. Neither NOBSE Study Bible Name List nor BDB Theological Dictionary offers an interpretation of this name.

Megilia, fol. The division of the land among the twelve tribes of Israel took place eight years earlier.

It was a law of the Jews that if a man died without children, his brother should marry his widow. 1. There is no evidence that they ever adduced them as containing a contradiction. The KJV and Darby translations make mention of a Salmon in Psalm 68:14, but this is צלמון, probably better transliterated as Zalmon. It is clear that no man can prove that they did not so copy them, and therefore that no one can adduce them as an argument against the correctness of the New Testament. 93. Salmon was a son of Nahshon and the father of Boaz, the great-grandfather of David, and therefore also an ancestor of Jesus mentioned both by Matthew (1:4 and 1:5) and Luke (3:32) as Σαλμων. 10. Salmon may have been one of them. It is a notion that generally obtains among the Jews (u), that she was the daughter of Eglon, grandson of Balak, king of Moab; and it is often taken notice of by them (w), that the king Messiah should descend from her; and also other persons of note, as David, Hezekiah, Josiah, Hananiah, Mishael, Azariah, and Daniel; wherefore the mentioning of her in this genealogy, cannot be said by them to be impertinent. 2. 2. Maccot.

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They are responsible only for what was their real and professed object to do. 29. Salmon may have married Rahab the Harlot, who sheltered the two Israelite spies in Jericho. a hill near Shechem, on which Abimelech and his followers cut down the boughs with which they set the tower of Shechem on fire. Smith's Bible Dictionary. ((t) T. Bab. It does not comport with the design of these notes to enter minutely into an explanation of the perplexities of these passages. 4. 14. Sota, fol. "SALMON" in the KJV Bible.

A member of Israel during its conquests in Canaan, Salmon later unites with Rahab after she joins Israel when Jericho is destroyed. 63.

Salmon was a prince of the house of Judah, and thus, Rahab, the one time heathen harlot, married into one of the leading families of Israel and became an ancestress of our Lord, the other foreign ancestresses being Tamar, Ruth and Bathsheba. 1. This was the explanation suggested by most of the Christian fathers, and on the whole is the most satisfactory. 2. 49. They are manifestly different lines. However, Jesse is rightly put among the progenitors of Christ, since the Messiah was to be a rod of his stem, and the branch of his roots, and is called the root of Jesse, Isaiah 11:1 which words are interpreted of the Messiah, by many of the Jewish writers (y); and to this day the Jews pray for him in their synagogues under the name of , "the son of Jesse" (z). The evangelists are not responsible for the correctness of these tables. fol 23. There they are entirely different. 71. [1] If so, then that is how he met Rahab. Jones suggests that Salmon was one of the two spies whom Joshua sent to Jericho after he took command when Moses died. And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse; τὸν Βοὸζ ἐκ τῆς Ῥαχάβ, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers.

& 123. Zoher in Gen. fol.

From Abraham to David the two tables are alike.

The most likely time for the birth of Boaz is 2568 AM, when Salmon and Rahab were 35 years old. And Booz begat Obed of Ruth; who was a Moabitess. 3. It's not clear how this ancestor of Christ was known by his contemporaries because, for … 7. Most interpreters have supposed that Matthew gives the genealogy of Joseph, and Luke that of Mary. Salmon would seem to have been the first of the house to have had land at Bethlehem (1Chronicles 2:54), and to have gained this in part through his adoption into the family of Caleb. Heli dying without children, his brother Jacob married his widow, and begat Joseph, who was thus the legal son of Heli. 2.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary. 3. 1. & Moses Kotsensis Mitzvot Torah, pr. In the same way, the records of a family among us, as they are kept by the family, are proof in courts of justice now of the birth, names, etc., of individuals. The one and only Salmon of the Bible is mentioned three times, once in the Old Testament and twice in the New. 1. 109. Salome was Herodias’s daughter through Philip. Salmon would seem to have been the first of the house to have had land at Bethlehem (1Chronicles 2:54), and to have gained this in part through his adoption into the family of Caleb.

2. This can be seen by the plan on the next page, showing the nature of the connection. Born::2533 AM) was an ancestor of David in the tribe of Judah and a member of the first generation of Israelites to cross the Jordan River. This page was last modified on 15 July 2010, at 06:24. neg. 112. 20. Be our patron for as little as one dollar a month: https://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Salmon.html. And this was doubtless done. Salmon or Salma (Hebrew: שלמה, Shalmā; Greek: Σαλμών, Salmōn; "Name means::garment") (b. ca. Kimchi & Laniado in Joshua 6.

He might also have been one of the two spies whom Joshua sent to Jericho before he crossed the Jordan and attacked it.

When Herodias came to … Not only are the names different, but Luke has mentioned, in this part of the genealogy, no less than 42 names, while Matthew has recorded only 27 names. The same may be said of the acute pagans who wrote against Christianity. This noun, curiously, also occurs in the form שלמה (salma), which has the two inner letters reversed and rather obviously resembles the familiar root שלם (shalem), meaning wholeness or peacefulness. (s) Zohar in Gen. fol. Many of those enemies were acute, learned, and able; and they show by their writings that they were not indisposed to detect all the errors that could possibly be found in the sacred narrative. Salmon. Nazir. fol. 23. What was that object? Rahab's confession of faith in the God of Israel must have impressed Salmon greatly. 4. Shalshelet Hakabala fol. Thus the two lines might have been intermingled, According to this solution, which was first proposed by Africanus, Matthan, descended from Solomon, married Estha, of whom was born Jacob. 1. 25. This solution derives some plausibility from the fact that the promise was made to David, and as Jesus was not the son of Joseph, it was important to show that Mary was also descended from him.

Shalshelet Hakabala, fol. Tzeror Hammor, fol. T. Bab. The tables of Matthew and Luke appear in many points to be different.

in Ruth.

Matthew says that Jacob begat Joseph; Luke says that Joseph was the son of Heli, i. e., was his legal heir, or was reckoned in law to be his son. 278.