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Sergius Paulus,
SER'GIUS PAU'LUS, the proconsul or deputy governor of Cyprus at the time of Paul and Barnabas' visit. He showed his intelligence and candor by sending for the apostles and accepting the overthrow of …
Sermon On The Mount
After spending a night in solemn meditation and prayer in the lonely mountain-range to the west of the Lake of Galilee (Luke 6:12), on the following morning our Lord called to him his disciples, and …
Serpent, Brazen.
SERPENT, BRAZEN. Num 21:9. As a punishment for the murmuring of the Israelites, God sent into the midst of the camp a venomous serpent, called "fiery," probably, from the burning which followed its d…
Serpent, Fiery
(LXX. “deadly,” Vulg. “burning”), Num. 21:6, probably the naja haje of Egypt; some swift-springing, deadly snake (Isa. 14:29). After setting out from their encampment at Ezion-gaber, the Israelites e…
Serpent, Fiery Flying.
SERPENT, FIERY FLY'ING. Isa 14:29; Ex 30:6. This creature has no connection with the preceding. The phrase may be a figurative expression for the swiftly-darting sand-serpents of Eastern deserts, or …
Serpent.
SER'PENT. In its ordinary scriptural use, this word does not denote any definite species, but snakes as a class, or some one or more kinds made definite by the context. The serpent is a creature dist…
Serug
Branch, the father of Nahor (Gen. 11:20-23); called Saruch in Luke 3:35.
Servant.
SER'VANT. Phile 16. The word so rendered is generally to be interpreted "bondman" or "slave." But there were also servants in our sense of the term: thus, Joshua was servant to Moses, Elisha to Elija…
Servitor,
SER'VITOR, a servant. 2 Kgs 4:43.
Seth
Appointed; a substitute, the third son of Adam and Eve (Gen. 4:25; 5:3). His mother gave him this name, “for God,” said she, “hath appointed me [i.e., compensated me with] another seed instead of Abe…
Sethur
Hidden, one of the spies sent to search the Promised Land. He was of the tribe of Asher (Num. 13:13).
Seven.
SEVEN. Gen 2:2. As from the beginning this was the number of days in the week, so it has ever in Scripture a sort of emphasis attached to it, and is very often and generally used as a round number, o…
Seventy Weeks
A prophetic period mentioned in Dan. 9:24, and usually interpreted on the “year-day” theory, i.e., reckoning each day for a year. This period will thus represent 490 years. This is regarded as the pe…
Shaalabbim
understanding, or son of a fox
Shaalabbin
Or Shaal’bim, a place of foxes, a town of the tribe of Dan (Josh. 19:42; Judg. 1:35). It was one of the chief towns from which Solomon drew his supplies (1 Kings 4:9). It is probably the modern villa…
Shaalbim
that beholds the heart
Shaalbim, Or Shaalabbin
(home of foxes), a town in the allotment of Dan. (Joshua 19:42; Judges 1:35; 1 Kings 4:9) By Eusebius and Jerome it is mentioned in the Onomasticon as a large village in the district of Sebaste (i.e.…
Shaalbonite
a fox's building
Shaalbonite, The.
SHAALBONITE, THE. 2 Sam 23:32; 1 Chr 11:33. Eliahba, one of David's thirty-seven heroes, is so called. It is not known where Shaalbon was.
Shaaph
(division).
Shaaraim
Two gates. (1.) A city in the plain of Judah (1 Sam. 17:52); called also Sharaim (Josh. 15:36). (2.) A town in Simeon (1 Chr. 4:31).
Shaasgaz
(servant of the beautiful), the eunuch in the palace of Xerxes who had the custody of the women in the second house. (Esther 2:14)
Shaashgaz
Servant of the beautiful, a chief eunuch in the second house of the harem of king Ahasuerus (Esther 2:14).
Shabbethai
Sabbath-born, a Levite who assisted in expounding the law and investigating into the illegal marriages of the Jews (Ezra 10:15; Neh. 8:7; 11:16).
Shachia
(announcemant) a son of Shaharaim by his wife Hodesh. (1 Chronicles 8:10)
Shaddai
The Omnipotent, the name of God in frequent use in the Hebrew Scriptures, generally translated “the Almighty.”
Shadow.
SHAD'OW. The word is used in Col 2:17; Heb 8:5; Dan 10:1 to express the relation between Judaism and Christianity. The rites of the old religion prefigured the realities of the new.
Shadrach
Aku’s command, the Chaldean name given to Hananiah, one of the Hebrew youths whom Nebuchadnezzar carried captive to Babylon (Dan. 1:6, 7; 3:12-30). He and his two companions refused to bow down befor…
Shage
(erring), father of Jonathan the Hararite, one of David’s guard. (1 Chronicles 11:34) [See Shammah, 5] (B.C. about 1050.)