ZALMONAH.An unidentified station of the Israelites (Num_33:41 f.).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
The stage in Israel's wilderness journey next after Mount Hor (Num_33:41) on the march from Kadesh round Edom. From zelem, "image"; where the brazen serpent was set up. Same as Ma'an or Alam Na'an (Von Raumer), E. of Petra, one of the largest villages on the Meeca route, abounding in water and vineyards; where Israel, as pilgrims in our days, might traffic for provisions. Others place Zalmonah in the wady Ithm, which runs into the Arabah near Elath.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Zalmo'nah. (shady). A desert station of the Israelites, Num_33:41, lies on the east side of Edom.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
zal-mō?na (צלמנה, calmōnāh, ?gloomy?): A desert camp of the Israelites, the first after Mt. Hor (Num_33:41, Num_33:42). The name ?suggests some gloomy valley leading up to the Edomite plateau.? See WANDERINGS OF ISRAEL.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
(Heb. Tsalmonah, צִלְמֹנָה; shady; Sept. Σελμωνᾶ; Vulg. Salmona), the name of a desert station (the 45th) of the Israelites, which they reached between leaving Mount Hor and camping at Punon, although they must have turned the southern, point of Edomitish territory by the way (Num_33:41). It therefore lay on the south-east side of Edom, but hardly so far north as Maan, a few miles east of Petra, as Ranumer thinks. More probably Zalmonah may be in the Wady el-Amunn, which runs into the Wady Ithm, close ton where Elath anciently stood. SEE EXODE.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.