Sabacthani
Hast thou forsaken me, a Syro-Chaldaic word, a part of our Savior’s exclamation on the cross, Mt 27:46; the whole is taken from Ps 22:1, where it is used prophetically.
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A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, American Tract Society, c. 1859, edited by W. W. Rand.
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Sabaoth
Or rather Tsabaoth, hosts or armies.JEHOVAH SABAOTHis the Lord of Hosts; and we are to understand the word hosts in the most comprehensive sense, as including the host of heaven...
Sabbath
Rest. God having created the world in six days, "rested" on the seventh, Ge 2:2,3; that is, he ceased from producing new beings in this creation; and because he had rested on it...
Sabbatical Year
Was to be celebrated among the Jews once every seven years; the land was to rest, and be left without culture, Ex 23:10,11Le 25:17. God appointed the observance of the Sabbatica...
Sabeans
This word represents two distinct people, who, in accordance with the original Hebrew, might have been more properly called Sebaeans and Shebaeans.1. The first denotes the inhab...
Sabth And Sabtecha
Sons of Cush, Ge 10:7. It cannot be decided whether they settled in Africa, Arabia, or southeastern Asia.
Sack, Sackcloth
Sack is a pure Hebrew word, and has spread into many modern languages. Sackcloth is a very coarse stuff, often of hair, Re 6:12. In great calamities, in penitence, in trouble, t...
Sackbut
SeeMUSIC.
Sacrifice
An offering made to God on his altar, by the hand of a lawful minister. A sacrifice differed from an oblation; it was properly the offering up of a life; whereas an oblation was...
Sacrilege
Any profanation or abuse of things peculiarly sacred to God; such as robbing the house of God, or making it a den of thieves, Mt 21:12,13; Ro 2:2.
Sadducees
This name was applied in the time of Jesus to a portion or sect of the Jews, who were usually at variance with the other leading sect, namely, the Pharisees, but united with the...
Saffron
The common Crocus Sativus, a small bluish flower, whose yellow, thread-like stigmata yield an agreeable aromatic odor; and also the Indian saffron, So 4:14. In the East these we...
Saint
A holy person, a friend of God, either on earth or in heaven, De 33:2. It is sometimes used of the pious Israelites, as Ps 16:3 34:9. Nothing is more frequent in Paul than the n...
Salamis
The chief city of the isle of Cyprus, visited by Paul and Barnabas, A. D. 48. This was the native isle of Barnabas, and many Jews resided there to whom the gospel had already be...
Salathiel
1Co 3:17, orSHEALTIEL, father of Zerubbabel, Ezr 3:2Ne 12:1Hag 1:1; one of the ancestors of Christ, named in both the gospel genealogies, Mt 1:14Lu 3:27. SeeGENEALOGY.
Salchah
A city of Bashan, conquered by the Jews and assigned to Manasseh, De 3:10Jos 12:5 13:11. It was near the border of Gad, 1Ch 5:11, and where the boundary line between the two tri...
Salem
Peace1. An ancient name of Jerusalem, Ge 14:18Heb 7:1,3, afterwards applied to it poetically, Ps 76:2.2. A city of the Shechemites, east of Sychar, Ge 33:18.
Salim
A town near Enon and the Jordan, south of Bethshean, Joh 3:23.
Salmon
OrSALMAH1Ch 2:11, a chief man of the tribe of Judah, husband of Rahab, and father of Boaz, Ru 4:20Mt 1:4,5Lu 3:32. SeeZALMON.
Salmone
A promontory at the northeast extremity of the island of Crete, now cape Sidero, Ac 27:7.
Salome
Wife of Zebedee, mother of James the elder and John the evangelist, one of those holy women of Galilee who attended our Savior in his journeys and ministered to him, Mt 20.20-23...
Salt
Was procured by the Jews from the Dead Sea, wither from the immense hill or ridge of pure rock salt at its southwest extremity, or from that deposited on the shore by the natura...
Salutation
The usual formula of salutation among the Hebrews was Shalom lekha, that is, Peace be with thee. The same expression is the common one among the Arabs to the present day: they s...
Salvation
Means, strictly, deliverance; and so it is used of temporal deliverance, victory, in Ge 14:131Sa 14:45. But as the spiritual deliverance from sin and death, through the Redeemer...
Samaria
1. One of the three divisions of the Holy Land in the time of our Savior, having Galilee on the north and Judea on the south, the Jordan on the east and the Mediterranean on the...
Samaritans
The inhabitants of Samaria. But in the New Testament this name is the appellation of a race of people who sprung originally from an intermixture of the ten tribes with gentile n...
Samos
An island of the Archipelago, on the coast of Asia Minor, opposite Lydia, from which it is separated by a narrow strait. The island was devoted to the worship of Juno, who had t...