Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
, the head of one of the twenty-four courses of the house of Levi. He had seven sons, who “took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus,” in imitation of Paul. They tried their method of exorcism on a fierce demoniac, and failed.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
a Jew residing at Ephesus at the time of St. Paul’s second visit to that town.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898)
SCE'VA (fitted), an Ephesian Jewish priest whose seven sons practised exorcism. Acts 19:14.
Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)
disposed; prepared
Schaff's Bible Dictionary
SCE'VA (fitted), an Ephesian Jewish priest whose seven sons practised exorcism. Acts 19:14. SCHISM means a rupture or separation, 1 Cor 12:25, but it is supposed to denote in this passage any such alienation of feeling among Christians as violates the spiritual union which ought to exist among them, though there be no doctrinal error or separate communions.