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English Dictionary: Salome by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Salome
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Salome
n
  1. woman whose dancing beguiled Herod into giving her the head of John the Baptist
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Salome, AZ
      Zip code(s): 85348

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Salome
      perfect. (1.) The wife of Zebedee and mother of James and John
      (Mat. 27:56), and probably the sister of Mary, the mother of our
      Lord (John 19:25). She sought for her sons places of honour in
      Christ's kingdom (Matt. 20:20, 21; comp. 19:28). She witnessed
      the crucifixion (Mark 15:40), and was present with the other
      women at the sepulchre (Matt. 27:56).
     
         (2.) "The daughter of Herodias," not named in the New
      Testament. On the occasion of the birthday festival held by
      Herod Antipas, who had married her mother Herodias, in the
      fortress of Machaerus, she "came in and danced, and pleased
      Herod" (Mark 6:14-29). John the Baptist, at that time a prisoner
      in the dungeons underneath the castle, was at her request
      beheaded by order of Herod, and his head given to the damsel in
      a charger, "and the damsel gave it to her mother," whose
      revengeful spirit was thus gratified. "A luxurious feast of the
      period" (says Farrar, Life of Christ) "was not regarded as
      complete unless it closed with some gross pantomimic
      representation; and doubtless Herod had adopted the evil fashion
      of his day. But he had not anticipated for his guests the rare
      luxury of seeing a princess, his own niece, a grand-daughter of
      Herod the Great and of Mariamne, a descendant, therefore, of
      Simon the high priest and the great line of Maccabean princes, a
      princess who afterwards became the wife of a tetrarch [Philip,
      tetrarch of Trachonitis] and the mother of a king, honouring
      them by degrading herself into a scenic dancer."
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Salome, same as Salmon
  
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