Salmon is a person in the Hebrew Bible. An alternate form is Salma. 11th century manuscript of the Hebrew Bible with Targum This article discusses usage of the term Hebrew Bible. For the article on the Hebrew Bible itself, see Tanakh. ...

He is the son of Nachson, and married with Rahab, by whom he had Boaz. Salmon is mentioned in 1 Chronicles 2:11,51,54; Ruth 4:20,21; Matthew 1:4.

He is named "the father of Bethlehem". That is, his descendants peopled Bethlehem, or he greatly improved and adorned it, or he was the chief man, by office; the Abyssinian shum of a town

Genealogy of Salmon

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See also

Bethlehem
Part of this text is taken from Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible 1832 The Church of the Nativity, a Bethlehem Landmark Bethlehem (Arabic بيت لحم (help· info) house of meat; Standard Hebrew בית לחם house of bread, Bet léḥem / Bet láḥem; Tiberian Hebrew Bêṯ léḥem / Bêṯ lāḥem) (Greek: Βηθλεέμ) is a city in the West Bank under Palestinian Authority considered a central hub of...