Lexical Summary Salēm: Salem, the home of Melchizedek Original Word: ΣαλήμTransliteration: Salēm Phonetic Spelling: (sal-ame') Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Short Definition: Salem, the home of Melchizedek Meaning: Salem -- the home of Melchizedek Strong's Concordance Salem. Of Hebrew origin (Shalem); Salem (i.e. Shalem), a place in Palestine -- Salem. see HEBREW Shalem Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4532: ΣαλήμΣαλήμ, ἡ (Heb. שָׁלֵם), Salem: Hebrews 7:1f; cf. Genesis 14:18, which some (as Gesenius, Winer, Hitzig, Knobel, Delitzsch) think is the ancient name of the city of Jerusalem, appealing to the words of Psalm 76:3 סֻכּו בְּשָׁלֵם וַיְהִי, and Josephus, Antiquities 1, 10, 2 τήν μέντοι Σολυμα ὕστερον ἐκάλεσαν Ἱεροσόλυμα; cf. b. j. 6, 10. But more correctly (yet cf. B. D. under the word |