noun · feminine
salēm
Strong’sG4532
Salem
stem salēm-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Σαλήμ, ἡ (Heb. שָׁלֵם Ge 14:18),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4532 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsal-ame'
Salem (i.e. Shalem), a place in Palestine
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesSalem.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Salem:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | salēm | salēm |
| object accusative | salēm | salēm |
| direct address vocative | salēm | salēm |
| of, belonging to genitive | salēm2×Σαλήμ | salēm |
| to, for dative | salēm | salēm |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
salēm“Salem”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Hebrews 7:1Houtos gar tos Melchisedek, basilevos Salēm, hierevos tou theou tou hupsistou, tos …This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High …
Hebrews 7:2… basilevos dikaiosunau epeita de kai basilevos Salēm, hem atō basilevos eirēnau,… of righteousness.” Then also, “king of Salem” means “king of peace.”