How to Pronounce Salmon
SAL-muhn
Salmon is pronounced SAL-muhn (ˈsælmən): two syllables, stress on the first.
What does Salmon mean?
Salmon means “peaceable; perfect; he that rewards”.
Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.
Who was Salmon?
Salmon was the son of Nahshon and the father of Boaz, standing in the ancestral line of David (Ruth 4:20, Ruth 4:21). Matthew's genealogy places him in the lineage of Jesus and names his wife as Rahab (Matthew 1:5). The same name also marks a hill, called Salmon, in Psalms 68:14.
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