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# שָׁלֵם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8004

**Salem** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Salem [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8004/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁלֵם³: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8004/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. abbrev. from יְרוּשָׁלַם (q.v.), and perhaps (Gunk Dr) intended as archaism Gn 14:18, cf. (poet.) ψ 76:3 (‖ צִיּוֹן); v. JosAnt. i, 10, 2; 𝔊 Σαλημ and (ψ) εἰρήνη.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Salem (1); of Salem (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 76:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.76.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.76.3/#tree)

וַיְהִ֣י בְשָׁלֵ֣ם סֻכּ֑וֹ וּמְע֖וֹנָת֣וֹ בְצִיּֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and it.was in Salem lair his and den his in Zion

*JPS 1917:* In Salem also is set His tabernacle, and His dwelling-place in Zion.

[Genesis 14:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.18/#tree)

וּמַלְכִּי־צֶ֙דֶק֙מַלְכִּי־צֶ֙דֶק֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ שָׁלֵ֔ם הוֹצִ֖יא לֶ֣חֶם וָיָ֑יִן וְה֥וּא כֹהֵ֖ן לְאֵ֥ל עֶלְיֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and Melchizedek Melchizedek the.king of.Salem he.brought.out bread and wine and he \[was\].a.priest of God Most.High

*JPS 1917:* And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine; and he was priest of God the Most High.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8004.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8004/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).