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Salome with John the Baptist's head, by Charles Mellin (1597–1649). Salome (/ s ə ˈ l oʊ m i, ˈ s æ l ə m eɪ /; Hebrew: שְלוֹמִית, romanized: Shlomit, related to שָׁלוֹם, Shalom "peace"; Greek: Σαλώμη), [1] also known as Salome III, [2] [note 1] was a Jewish princess, the daughter of Herod II and princess Herodias.
Zechariah and St. John the Baptist. A medieval Georgian fresco from the Monastery of the Cross, Jerusalem. According to the Gospel of Luke, during the reign of king Herod, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the course of Abia, whose wife Elizabeth was also of the priestly family of Aaron.
Abu Basir recorded that Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, the great grandson of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, had stated: "Hannah, the wife of Imran, and Hananah, the wife of Zechariah, were sisters. He goes on to say that Mary was born from Hannah and John was born from Hananah. Mary gave birth to Jesus and he was the son of the daughter of John's aunt ...
John the Baptist [note 1] (c. 6 BC [18] – c. AD 30) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. [19] [20] He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, John the Immerser in some Baptist Christian traditions, [21] and as the prophet Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyā (Arabic: النبي يحيى, An-Nabī ...
The Hebrew name is composed of two parts; in one interpretation, "Eli" means "my God" and "sheba" means "oath". [3] The name Eli-sheba can thus be translated as "God is (my) oath". The Hebrew Bible records that Elisheba and Aaron had four sons: Nadab and Abihu , Eleazar , and Ithamar ( Exodus 6:23 ).
A descendant of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, a chief of the eighth of the twenty-four orders into which the priesthood was divided by David and an ancestor of Zechariah, the priest who was the father of John the Baptist. [11] The order of Abijah is listed with the priests and Levites who returned with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with Joshua. [12]
[a] It is an Arabic form of the Aramaic given name Yohanan (Hebrew: יְהוֹחָנָן, romanized: Yəhoḥānān, lit. 'Yahweh is gracious') of John the Baptist in Islam, who is considered a prophet. For this reason, Yahya is a comparatively common name in the Muslim world.
Abijah (Hebrew אֲבִיָּה "my father is YHWH") is the name of five minor biblical individuals: Abijah, [20] who married King Ahaz of Judah. She is also called Abi. [21] Her father's name was Zechariah; she was the mother of King Hezekiah [22] A wife of Hezron, one of the grandchildren of Judah [23] A son of Becher, the son of Benjamin [24]