Salome
(peaceful).
1. The wife of Zebedee, Mt 27:56; Mr 15:40 and probably sister of Mary the mother of Jesus, to whom reference is made in Joh 19:25 The only events recorded of Salome are that she preferred a request on behalf of her two sons for seats of honor in the kingdom of heaven, Mt 20:20 that she attended at the crucifixion of Jesus, Mr 15:40 and that she visited his sepulchre. Mr 16:1 She is mentioned by name on only the two latter occasions.
2. The daughter of Herodias by her first husband, Herod Philip. Mt 14:6 She married in the first the tetrarch of Trachonitis her paternal uncle, sad secondly Aristobulus, the king of Chalcis.
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