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# שַׂלְמָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8007

**Salma** — used 4 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

Salma [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8007/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** i. שַׂלְמָה v. שַׂלְמוֹן.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Salma (3); of Salma (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:51](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.51/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.51/#tree)

שַׂלְמָא֙ אֲבִ֣י בֵֽית־לָ֔חֶםבֵֽית־לָ֔חֶם חָרֵ֖ף אֲבִ֥י בֵית־גָּדֵֽרבֵית־גָּדֵֽר׃

*Word for word:* Salma the.father of Bethlehem Hareph the.father of Beth-Gader

*JPS 1917:* Salma the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph the father of Beth-gader.

[1 Chronicles 2:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.11/#tree)

וְנַחְשׁוֹן֙ הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת־שַׂלְמָ֔א וְשַׂלְמָ֖א הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת־בֹּֽעַז׃

*Word for word:* and Nahshon he.fathered (et) Salma and Salma he.fathered (et) Boaz

*JPS 1917:* and Nahshon begot Salma, and Salma begot Boaz;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8007.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8007/): 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).