Bible Names

Zalmon: meaning of the name

Zalmon means “his shade; his image.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Zalmon in Hebrew and Greek

צַלְמוֹן H6756

Tsalmôwn (tsal-mone') — Tsalmon, the name of a place in Palestine and of an Israelite

from H6754 (צֶלֶם); shady;

Places named Zalmon

Zalmon in Scripture

“Zalmon” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Judges 9:48

    And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.

  • 2 Samuel 23:28

    Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,