Or possibly Shalach.
Genesis 10:24 and 11:22 name him as a son of Arphachshad, himself the third son of Shem.
The spelling, unpointed, also gives Shilo'ach (שלח), the pool in Yeru-Shala'im which we usually (incorrectly) call Shiloh or Siloam in English (see Isaiah 8:6); it runs through the hill of Ophel to the south-east of the city. See also Gichon. However, the probability is that the similarity of the two names is mere coincidence, the one being Yehudit, the other from one of the Chaldean languages.
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