Bible Names

Shallum: meaning of the name

Shallum means “perfect; agreeable.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Shallum in Hebrew and Greek

שַׁלּוּם H7967

Shallûwm (shal-loom') — Shallum, the name of fourteen Israelites

or (shorter) שַׁלֻּם; the same as H7966 (שִׁלּוּם);

שַׁלּוּן H7968

Shallûwn (shal-loon') — Shallun, an Israelite

probably for H7967 (שַׁלּוּם);

People named Shallum in the Bible

Shallum in Scripture

“Shallum” appears in 26 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 2 Kings 15:10

    And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Kings 15:13

    Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria.

  • 2 Kings 15:14

    For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Kings 15:15

    And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

  • 2 Kings 22:14

    So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:40

    And Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum,

  • 1 Chronicles 2:41

    And Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama.

  • 1 Chronicles 3:15

    And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.