Zalmon

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Zalmon
     shady. (1.) One of David's warriors, called the Ahohite (2 Sam.
     23:28); called also Ilai (1 Chr. 11:29).
     
       (2.) A wood near Shechem, from which Abimelech and his party
     brought boughs and "put them to the hold" of Shechem, "and set


     the hold on fire" (Judg. 9:48). Probably the southern peak of
     Gerizim, now called Jebel Sulman. (See {SALMON}.)
     

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

  Zalmon, his shade; his image