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Names and places in the Old and New Testament and Apocrypha, with their modern identifications

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Names and places in the Old and New Testament and Apocrypha, with their modern identifications

Bible -- Geography; Names in the Bible; Names, Geographical

=SALCAH= or     |Deut. iii.    |_Salkhad_     |12 |A city in the extreme
 =SALCHAH=      | 10; Josh.    |              |   | limits of Bashan. Now
 (R.V.          | xii. 5;      |              |   | the present large
 =SALECAH=)     | xiii. 11; 1  |              |   | town called Salkhad,
                | Chr. v. 11   |              |   | east of Bashan. For
                |              |              |   | various descriptions
                |              |              |   | see _Will. of Tyre_,
                |              |              |   | xvi. 8; Burckhardt
                |              |              |   | (_Syria_, Nov. 22,
                |              |              |   | 1810); Porter (_Five
                |              |              |   | Years in Damascus_,
                |              |              |   | ii. 176).
                |              |              |   |
=SALEM (1)=     |Ps. lxxvi. 2  |_Jerusalem_   |-- |Jerusalem.
                |              |              |   |
=SALEM (2)=     |Gen. xiv. 18  |_Not          |-- |Jerusalem (Jewish
                |              | identified_  |   | Commentators, and
                |              |              |   | Josephus, Ant. i.
                |              |              |   | 10, 2; vii. 3, 2).
                |              |              |   | According to the
                |              |              |   | Samaritans the same
                |              |              |   | as Shalem, which see.
                |              |              |   | Jerome states it was a
                |              |              |   | town near Scythopolis
                |              |              |   | (Beisan), and known in
                |              |              |   | his day as Salem. It
                |              |              |   | is otherwise regarded
                |              |              |   | not as a town but as a
                |              |              |   | personal name.
                |              |              |   |
=SALEM=, Valley |Judith iv. 4  |_Not          |-- |Mentioned among the
                |              | identified_  |   | places that were
                |              |              |   | fortified by the Jews
                |              |              |   | on the approach of
                |              |              |   | Holofernes (Judith iv.
                |              |              |   | 4).
                |              |              |   |
=SALT=, City of |Josh. xv. 62  |_Tell el      |14 |Probably ‘Tell el
                |              | Milh_ (?)*   |   | Milh,’ (‘salt mound’)
                |              |              |   | east of ‘Beersheba’
                |              |              |   | (Conder). ‘Tell el
                |              |              |   | Milh’ is generally
                |              |              |   | identified with the

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Names and places in the Old and New Testament and Apocrypha, with their modern identifications

Bible -- Geography; Names in the Bible; Names, Geographical

=SALCAH= or     |Deut. iii.    |_Salkhad_     |12 |A city in the extreme
 =SALCHAH=      | 10; Josh.    |              |   | limits of Bashan. Now
 (R.V.          | xii. 5;      |              |   | the present large
 =SALECAH=)     | xiii. 11; 1  |              |   | town called Salkhad,
                | Chr. v. 11   |              |   | east of Bashan. For
                |              |              |   | various descriptions
                |              |              |   | see _Will. of Tyre_,
                |              |              |   | xvi. 8; Burckhardt
                |              |              |   | (_Syria_, Nov. 22,
                |              |              |   | 1810); Porter (_Five
                |              |              |   | Years in Damascus_,
                |              |              |   | ii. 176).
                |              |              |   |
=SALEM (1)=     |Ps. lxxvi. 2  |_Jerusalem_   |-- |Jerusalem.
                |              |              |   |
=SALEM (2)=     |Gen. xiv. 18  |_Not          |-- |Jerusalem (Jewish
                |              | identified_  |   | Commentators, and
                |              |              |   | Josephus, Ant. i.
                |              |              |   | 10, 2; vii. 3, 2).
                |              |              |   | According to the
                |              |              |   | Samaritans the same
                |              |              |   | as Shalem, which see.
                |              |              |   | Jerome states it was a
                |              |              |   | town near Scythopolis
                |              |              |   | (Beisan), and known in
                |              |              |   | his day as Salem. It
                |              |              |   | is otherwise regarded
                |              |              |   | not as a town but as a
                |              |              |   | personal name.
                |              |              |   |
=SALEM=, Valley |Judith iv. 4  |_Not          |-- |Mentioned among the
                |              | identified_  |   | places that were
                |              |              |   | fortified by the Jews
                |              |              |   | on the approach of
                |              |              |   | Holofernes (Judith iv.
                |              |              |   | 4).
                |              |              |   |
=SALT=, City of |Josh. xv. 62  |_Tell el      |14 |Probably ‘Tell el
                |              | Milh_ (?)*   |   | Milh,’ (‘salt mound’)
                |              |              |   | east of ‘Beersheba’
                |              |              |   | (Conder). ‘Tell el
                |              |              |   | Milh’ is generally
                |              |              |   | identified with the

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Names and places in the Old and New Testament and Apocrypha, with their modern identifications

Names and places in the Old and New Testament and Apocrypha, with their modern identifications

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