Skull, The Place Of A
See GOLGOTHA.
Slave
Jer. 2:14 (A.V.), but not there found in the original. In Rev. 18:13 the word “slaves” is the rendering of a Greek word meaning “bodies.” The Hebrew and Greek words for slave are usually rendered sim…
Slave, Slavery.
SLAVE, SLAVERY. Slavery is contrary to the constitution and destination of man and to the spirit of the Bible, which begins and ends with freedom, and represents man as made in the image of God, and …
Slime.
SLIME. Gen 11:3. See Pitch.
Sling.
SLING. See Arms.
Smith
The Hebrews were not permitted by the Philistines in the days of Samuel to have a smith amongst them, lest they should make them swords and spears (1 Sam. 13:19). Thus the Philistines sought to make …
Smyrna
Myrrh, an ancient city of Ionia, on the western coast of Asia Minor, about 40 miles to the north of Ephesus. It is now the chief city of Anatolia, having a mixed population of about 200,000, of whom …
Snail.
SNAIL. The word thus rendered in Lev 11:30 may denote some species of Snail. lizard - perhaps the sand-lizard, which is found in the desert of Sinai and in many parts of Palestine. These creatures ar…
Snare
The expression (Amos 3:5), “Shall one take up a snare from the earth?” etc. (Authorized Version), ought to be, as in the Revised Version, “Shall a snare spring up from the ground?” etc. (See GIN.)
Snow,
SNOW, vapor congealed in the air, and often falling in large, broad flakes resembling wool. 2 Sam 23:20; Ps 147:16. The allusions to snow in the sacred writings, especially to its whiteness, are freq…
Snuff-dishes
SNUFF-DISHES, SNUFFERS. Ex 25:38; Ex 37:23. See Candlestick.
Snuff-dishes, Snuffers.
SNUFF-DISHES, SNUFFERS. Ex 25:38; Ex 37:23. See Candlestick.
So,
SO, the king of Egypt, mentioned once in the Bible, 2 Kgs 17:4; probably identical with Sevechus, the second king of the twenty-fifth dynasty. He reigned ten or twelve years. Hosea made an alliance w…
Soap.
SOAP. Jer 2:22; Mal 3:2. Several kinds of shrubby alkaline plants, one of which is figured, grow very abundantly in the vicinity of the Dead Salsola Kali. and Mediterranean Seas. The Arabs dry and bu…
Socho,
SO'CHO, and SO'CHOH (branches). 1 Chr 4:18; 1 Kgs 4:10. See Socoh.
Sochoh
another form of the name which is more correctly given in the Authorized version as Socoh. The present one occurs in (1 Kings 4:10) and is therefore probably, though not certainly, Socoh, 1.
Socoh
the name of two towns in the tribe of Judah.
Sod
SOD, SOD'DEN, the preterite and past participle of "seethe." Gen 25:29; Ex 12:9.
Sod, Sodden,
SOD, SOD'DEN, the preterite and past participle of "seethe." Gen 25:29; Ex 12:9.
Sodi
(intimate), the father of Geddiel, the spy selected from the tribe of Zebulun. (Numbers 13:10) (B.C. 1490.)
Sodom
Burning; the walled, a city in the vale of Siddim (Gen. 13:10; 14:1-16). The wickedness of its inhabitants brought down upon it fire from heaven, by which it was destroyed (18:16-33; 19:1-29; Deut. 2…
Sodoma.
SOD'OMA. Rom 9:29. The Greek name for Sodom, which see.
Sodomites.
SOD'OMITES. The word has no reference to Sodom, but is the biblical term for those who practise sodomy - a sin to which the inhabitants of that city were addicted. Gen 19:5.
Soldiers
SOL'DIERS. See Armies.
Solemn Meeting
(Isa. 1:13), the convocation on the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles (Lev. 23:36; Num. 29:35, R.V., “solemn assembly;” marg., “closing festival”). It is the name given also to the convocation h…
Solomon
Peaceful, (Heb. Shelomoh), David’s second son by Bathsheba, i.e., the first after their legal marriage (2 Sam. 12). He was probably born about B.C. 1035 (1 Chr. 22:5; 29:1). He succeeded his father o…
Solomon, Proverbs Of.
SOL'OMON, PROVERBS OF. See Proverbs.
Solomon, Song Of
Called also, after the Vulgate, the “Canticles.” It is the “song of songs” (1:1), as being the finest and most precious of its kind; the noblest song, “das Hohelied,” as Luther calls it. The Solomoni…
Solomon, Wisdom Of
[Wisdom, The, Of Solomon, BOOK OF]
Solomons Pools
SOLOMON'S POOLS. The three pools of Solomon are in a narrow valley south-west of Bethlehem, on the road to Hebron, and still supply Jerusalem with water through an aqueduct. See Eccl 2:6. They are pa…