Salome

5 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Salome
       n : woman whose dancing beguiled Herod into giving her the head
           of John the Baptist

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:



  Salome
     perfect. (1.) The wife of Zebedee and mother of James and John
     (Mat. 27:56), and probably the sister of Mary, the mother of our
     Lord (John 19:25). She sought for her sons places of honour in
     Christ's kingdom (Matt. 20:20, 21; comp. 19:28). She witnessed
     the crucifixion (Mark 15:40), and was present with the other
     women at the sepulchre (Matt. 27:56).
     
       (2.) "The daughter of Herodias," not named in the New
     Testament. On the occasion of the birthday festival held by
     Herod Antipas, who had married her mother Herodias, in the
     fortress of Machaerus, she "came in and danced, and pleased
     Herod" (Mark 6:14-29). John the Baptist, at that time a prisoner
     in the dungeons underneath the castle, was at her request
     beheaded by order of Herod, and his head given to the damsel in
     a charger, "and the damsel gave it to her mother," whose
     revengeful spirit was thus gratified. "A luxurious feast of the
     period" (says Farrar, Life of Christ) "was not regarded as
     complete unless it closed with some gross pantomimic
     representation; and doubtless Herod had adopted the evil fashion
     of his day. But he had not anticipated for his guests the rare
     luxury of seeing a princess, his own niece, a grand-daughter of
     Herod the Great and of Mariamne, a descendant, therefore, of
     Simon the high priest and the great line of Maccabean princes, a
     princess who afterwards became the wife of a tetrarch [Philip,
     tetrarch of Trachonitis] and the mother of a king, honouring
     them by degrading herself into a scenic dancer."
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Salome, same as Salmon
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Salome, AZ
    Zip code(s): 85348

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Salome, AZ -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Arizona
     Population (2000):    1690
     Housing Units (2000): 1176
     Land area (2000):     27.415788 sq. miles (71.006561 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    27.415788 sq. miles (71.006561 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            62700
     Located within:       Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
     Location:             33.763728 N, 113.608555 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     85348
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Salome, AZ
      Salome