to Shalem] Or, Salem. The word Salem signifieth safe, so some take it not for a proper name of a place, but for an appellative word or Noune, noting the prosperitie of Jacobs passage; that he came safe to Shechem; and thence they inferre that he was healed of his halting, and that before he met with Esau, else he would have made that an excuse for his not following him to Seir; but whether Jacob were so soone cured of his halting, or were not at all cured of it, (and therefore gave the more occasion of the Israelites forbearing of some part of the thigh thereupon, as is noted, Chap. 32. vers. 32.) which is uncertaine, there might be a Citie in the Countrey of Shechem called Salem; and it is thought the same that was called Sychar: See John 4:5. See Annot. on Chap. 14. vers. 18.