the Week of Proper 4 / Ordinary 9
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Strong's #8020 - שַׁלְמַן
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Shalman = “fire-worshipper”
1) a contraction for Shalmaneser king of Assyria
1a) maybe an obscure Assyrian king, predecessor of Pul
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of a location (compare Palmyrene proper name שלמן GACooke299; Phoenician proper name, of divinity שלמן Lzb377 GACooke42; Assyrian Salamanu, of Moabite prince COT Hosea 10:14; proper name, of divinity Šulmanu, see following); — בֵּית אַרְבֵּאל׳כְּשֹׁד שׁ Hosea 10:14, Σαλαμαν (compare also Field Hex. ii. 957); — dubious, We Now think = following (and clause inserted after Hosea's time), compare also Marti; others compare Moabitish prince, see above; Spiegelb ZA xiii (1898), 120f. suggests proper name, of a location, compare Ša-ra-ma-na in Egyptian
שַׁלְמַן Hosea 10:14 full שַׁלְמַנְאֶסֶר 2 Kings 17:3, 18:9 (compare Pers. شرمان آذر “verecundus erga ignem”), [Shalman, Shalmanezer], pr.n. of a very powerful king of Assyria (734-16 b.c.), who, b.c. 722, led away [some of the] ten tribes captive. Vulg. Salmanassar.
