"reward".
(a) Sixteenth king of Israel, son of Jabez. He killed King Zechariah to reign in his place over the ten tribes, but he only reigned for one month, dying at the hands of Manahem (2 Kings 15: 8-15).
(b) Son of Ticva and husband of the prophetess Huldah. He was the keeper of the priestly vestments, deposited in the Temple, or of the royal vestments (2 Kings 22:14; 2 Chron. 34:22).
(c) Chief of the Temple gatekeepers (1 Chr. 9:17, 18). It appears that his descendants returned from captivity (Ezra 2:42; 10:24; Neh. 7:45). This Salum can be identified with Meselemiah (Shelemiah) in 1 Chr. 26:1, 2, 9, 14.
(d) Member of the family of the high priest Zadok, and ancestor of Ezra. He lived several generations before Nebuchadnezzar's taking of Jerusalem (1 Chr. 6:12-15; Ezra 7:2); he appears in 1 Chr. 9:11 under the name Meshullam.
(e) Uncle of the prophet Jeremiah and father of Hanamel (Jer. 32:7, 8). Contrary to the opinion of certain commentators, he did not belong to the family of the high priest. This Shallum's son lived in Anathoth, where the descendants of the line of Ithamar, which Abiathar had represented, resided (1 Kings 2:26).
But in the time of Shallum, the high priests belonged to the line of Eleazar.
(f) Another name for Jehoahaz, son of Josiah, king of Judah (2 Kings 23:30; Jer. 22:11).
Meaning of SALUM
"reward".
(a) Sixteenth king of Israel, son of Jabez. He killed King Zechariah to reign in his place over the ten tribes, but he only reigned for one month, dying at the hands of Manahem (2 Kings 15: 8-15).
