Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Salema in Arabic mythology, is the god of health worshipped by a race of giants who are said to have inhabited Arabia. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

SALEM Peace1. An ancient name of Jerusalem, Gen 14:18 Heb 7:1,3, afterwards applied to it poetically, Psa 76:2 .2. A city of the Shechemites, east of Sychar, Gen 33:18 . Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Salem See Jerusalem, Melchizedek. Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church Salem Original name of Jerusalem. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary … Continue reading “Salem”

Salecah, Salcah, Salchah sale-ka, salka (, salekhah; Codex Vaticanus , Sekcha, , Acha, , Sela, Codex Alexandrinus , Elcha, , Aselcha, , Selcha): This place first appears in Deu 3:10 as marking the eastern boundary of Bashan. It is named as one of the cities in which Og, king of Bashan, ruled (Jos 12:5). It … Continue reading “Salecah, Salcah, Salchah”

Salecah SALECAH (Deu 3:10, Jos 13:11; Jos 12:5, 1Ch 5:11) was the most easterly of the towns claimed by Israel. It was assigned to the tribe of Gad, and is always described as being on the eastern frontier of Bashan. But it is better Indicated less theoretically as being in the extreme south-east of the … Continue reading “Salecah”

Sale, Victoria, diocese of Comprises the southeastern part of Victoria, from the eastern surburbs of Melbourne to the New South Wales border. Founded on 19 May 1887. Suffragen of the archdiocese of Melbourne. See also Catholic-Hierarchy.Org diocese of Sale New Catholic Dictionary Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Sale, John a Methodist Episcopal minister, and one of the most heroic evangelists and founders of Western Methodism, was born in Virginia in 1769. In 1796 he joined the itinerancy, and was sent to Swanino Circuit, in the wilds of Virginia, where he had his courage and fidelity tested in breasting the dangers and hardships … Continue reading “Sale, John”

Sale (SALIENSIS) Diocese in Victoria, Australia, comprises all the territory known as Gippsland. In 1840 Count Strzelecki, an expatriated Polish scientist, accompanied by a young Irishman named James Riley and some attendants, first penetrated this region, which they found to be singularly fertile and teeming with resources, though hitherto regarded as a trackless waste. Its … Continue reading “Sale”

SALCHAH A city of Bashan, conquered by the Jews and assigned to Manasseh, Deu 3:10 Jos 12:5 13:11. It was near the border of Gad, 1Ch 5:11, and where the boundary line between the two tribes ran out farthest into the desert. A town called Salchat still exists there, on the southeast border of the … Continue reading “Salchah”

Salcah, Salchah [Sal’cah] [Sal’chah] City and district on the border of Bashan allotted to Gad. Deu 3:10; Jos 12:5; Jos 13:11; 1Ch 5:11. The city is identified with Salkhad, 32 32′ N, 36 40′ E. Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary

Salcah (Heb. Salkah’, , from an Arabic root, signifying migration; Sept. , v.r. , , , etc.; A.V. Salchah, in Deuteronomy 3, 10 [Targum Pseudo-Jon. gives it , i.e. Seleucia; though which Seleucia they can have supposed was here intended it is difficult to imagine]), a city named in the early records of Israel as … Continue reading “Salcah”