II. SALEM, or Shalem, a City of the Shechemites, where Jacob arrived at his Return from Mesopotamia. Eusebius and St. Jerome, take Notice of this City; but some Commentators translate the Hebrew thus, Jacob came safe and found to a City of Shechem. Shalem, in Hebrew, may signify safe, in Health, &c.
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