Streets
In the towns and cities of Palestine, are supposed to have been comparatively narrow and ill graded, on account of the unevenness of their sites, and the little use of wheel-car...
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American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, American Tract Society, c. 1859, edited by W. W. Rand.
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Strong Drink
SeeWINE.
Succoth
Booths,1. A spot in the valley of the Jordan and near the Jabbok, where Jacob set up his tents on his return from Mesopotamia, Ge 33:17. Joshua assigned the city subsequently bu...
Succoth Bennoth
Tents of the daughters, 2Ki 17:30, an object of idolatrous worship among the Babylonians: an idol; or as some think tents, or booths, in which the Babylonian females prostituted...
Sukkiim
Allies of Shishak in his invasion of Judah, 2Ch 12:3; probably from region southeast of Egypt.
Summer
SeeCANAAN.
Sun
The great luminary of day, which furnishes so many similitudes to the Hebrew poets, as well as those of all nations, Jud 5:31Ps 84:11Pr 4:18Lu 1:78,79Joh 8:12. For the idolatrou...
Superstition And Superstitious
Ac 17:22; 19:25, are not to be understood offensively. Paul found the Athenians "much addicted to devotion," such as it was: perhaps "religion" and "religiously inclined" may be...
Supper
SeeEATING, andLORD’S SUPPER. For the suppers, or love feasts, which used to accompany the celebration of the Lord’s supper, seeFEASTS.
Surety
One who makes himself personally responsible for the safe appearing of another, Ge 43:9 44:32, or for the full payment of his debts, etc., Pr 22:26. Christ is the "surety of a b...
Swallow
The well-known bird of passage, which is so common both in our country, in Europe, and in the East, Ps 84:3; Isa 38:14; Jer 8:7. SeeCRANE, andSPARROW.
Swan
This bird is mentioned only in Le 11:18De 14:16; and it is there quite doubtful whether the Hebrew word means a swan. The Septuagint calls it the ibis, and the purple hen, a wat...
Swearing
SeeOATH.
Swine
A well-known animal, forbidden as food to the Hebrews, who held its flesh in such destination that they would not so much as pronounce its name, Le 11:7De 14:8. The eating of sw...
Sycamore Or Sycamine
Lu 17:6, a curious tree, which seems to partake of the nature of both the mulberry and the fig, the former in its leaf, and the latter in its fruit. Hence its name in Greek, mea...
Sychar Or Sychem
SeeSHECHEM.
Syene
A city on the southern frontiers of Egypt, towards Ethiopia, between Thebes and the cataracts of the Nile, and now called Assouan. Pliny says it stands in a peninsula on the eas...
Synagogue
A word which primarily signifies an assembly; but, like the word church, came at length to be applied to the buildings in which the ordinary Jewish assemblies for the worship of...
Syntyche And Euodias
Php 4:2,3, women eminent for virtue and good works in the church at Philippi. Paul exhorts them to persevere, or rather, to act harmoniously together in their Christian labors, ...
Syracuse
Now Siracasa, a large and celebrated city on the eastern coast of Sicily, furnished with a capacious and excellent harbor. The city, founded 734 B. C., was opulent and powerful,...
Syria
In HebrewARAM, a large district of Asia, lying, in the widest acceptation of the name, between the Mediterranean, Mount Taurus, and the Tigris, and thus including Mesopotamia, t...
Syrophoenicia
Is Phoenicia properly so called, but during the period when by conquest it was united to the kingdom of Syria, it prefixed to its old name Phoenicia, that of Syria. The Canaanit...