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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Salem:

peace, commonly supposed to be another name of Jerusalem (Gen 14:18; Psa 76:2; Hbr 7:1,2).

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Salem:

complete or perfect peace

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Salem:

(peace).

(1.) The place of which Melchizedek was king (Genesis 14:18; Hebrews 7:1-2). No satisfactory identification of it is perhaps possible. Two main opinions have been current from the earliest ages of interpretation:

(1). That of the Jewish commentators, who affirm that Salem is Jerusalem, on the ground that Jerusalem is so called in Psalm 76:2. Nearly all Jewish commentators hold this opinion.

(2). Jerome, however, states that the Salem of Melchizedek was not Jerusalem, but a town eight Roman miles south of Scythopolis, and gives its then name as Salumias, and identifies it with Salem, where John baptized.

(2.) Psalm 76:2 it is agreed on all hands that Salem is here employed for Jerusalem.

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