Schoolmaster
1Co 4:15Ga 3:24,25, in Greek Paidagogos; a sort of attendant who took the charge of young children, taught them the rudiments of knowledge, and at a suitable age conducted them ...
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A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, American Tract Society, c. 1859, edited by W. W. Rand.
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Scorpion
Lu 10:19, one of the largest and most malignant of all the insect tribes. It somewhat resembles the lobster in its general appearance, but is much more hideous. Those found in S...
Scourge
Or Whip. The punishment of scourging was very common among the Jews. Our Savior was subjected to this barbarous and ignominious torture, which was at times so sever as to end in...
Scribe
In the earlier Hebrew writings, was one skilled in writing and accounts, Ex 5:6Jud 5:14Jer 52:25; the person who communicated to the people the commands of the king, like the mo...
Scrip
A bag or wallet, in which travellers carried a portion of food, or some small articles of convenience, 1Sa 17:40; Mt 10:10.
Scripture
OrSCRIPTURES, the writings, that is, by eminence; the inspired writings, comprising the Old and New Testaments. SeeBIBLE.
Scythians
Wandering tribes in the immense regions north and northeast of the Black and Caspian Seas. They are said by Herodotus to have made an incursion into Southwestern Asia and Egypt,...
Sea
The Hebrews give the name of sea to any large collection of water, Job 14:11; as to the lakes of Tiberias and Asphaltites, and also to the rivers Nile and Euphrates, Isa 11:15 1...
Seacons
SeeCANAAN
Seal, Sealing
The allusions and references to seals and sealing are frequent in the sacred writings. Seals or signets were in use at a very early period, and they were evidently of various ki...
Seba
SeeSABEANS
Sebat
The first month of the Jewish civil year, and the eleventh of the ecclesiastical year-from the new moon of February to that of March. SeeMONTH. They began in this month to the y...
Secret
SeeMYSTERY
Sect
From a Latin word answering to the Greek word hoeresis, which latter our translators have in some places rendered "sect," in others "heresy." As used in the New Testament, it im...
Secundus
A disciple at Thessalonica, who accompanied Paul in some of his journeys, Ac 20:4.
Sedition
A popular tumult, Ac 24:5, or a religious faction, Ga 5:20. The same Greek word is translated "insurrection," in speaking of Barabbas, Mr 15:7, and "dissension" in Ac 15:2.
Seed
Ge 1:11; often used figuratively in Scripture, Da 9:11Pe 1:231Jo 3:9. There was an injunction in the Mosaic Law against sowing a field with mingled seed of diverse kinds, Le 19:...
Seer
One supernaturally enlightened to see things which God only can reveal; applied to certain Hebrews prophets, 1Sa 9:92Ch 29:30 33:18,19 Isa 29:10 30:10. Compare Nu 24:3,4.
Seir
1. A mountain of Judah, near Kirjath-jearim, Jos 15:10.2. A Horite, one of the primitive rulers of the country south and southeast of the Dead Sea, Ge 36:20De 2:12.3. A mountain...
Sela
The name of a place mentioned in 2Ki 14:7, where it is said that Amaziah king of Judah slew ten thousand men of Edom, in the valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called the...
Selah
A musical term which occurs seventy-three times in the Psalms, and is found also in Hab 3:3,9,13. It usually occurs at the end of a period or apostrophe, but sometimes at the en...
Senate
Ac 5:21. SeeSANHEDRIN.
Senir
A name given to Mount Hermon by the Amorites, De 3:91Ch 5:23Eze 27:5. SeeHERMON.
Sennacherib
King of Assyria, son and successor of Shalmaneser, began to reign B. C. 710, and reigned but a few years. Hezekiah king of Judah having shaken off the yoke of the Assyrians, by ...
Sephar
"A mountain of the East," a boundary of the Joktanite tribes, Ge 10:30. It is perhaps the same as Mount Sabber in Southwestern Arabia.
Sepharad
A place in Asia Minor near the Bosphorus, to which Jewish captives were conveyed, Ob 1:20.
Sepharvaim
When Shalmaneser king of Assyria carried away Israel from Samaria to beyond the Euphrates, he sent people in their stead into Palestine, among whom were the Sepharvaim, 2Ki 17:2...