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Sharezer
sha-re'zer (sar'etser, shar'etser): Corresponds to the Assyrian Shar-ucur, "protect the king"; found otherwise, not as a complete name, but as elements in personal names, e.g. B...
Sharon
shar'-un (ha-sharon, with the definite article possibly meaning "the plain"; to pedion, ho drumos, ho Saron):(1) This name is attached to the strip of fairly level land which ru...
Sharonite
shar'-un-it (ha-sharoni; ho Saroneites): Applied in Scripture only to Shitrai (1Ch 27:29).SeeSHARON.
Sharuhen
sha-roo'-hen (sharuchen; hoi agroi auton): One of the cities in the territory of Judah assigned to Simeon (Jos 19:6). InJos 15:32it is called "Shilhim," and in1Ch 4:31, "Shaarai...
Shashai
sha'-shi (shashay; Sesei): One of the sons of Bani who had married foreign wives (Ezr 10:40) = "Sesis" in 1 Esdras 9:34.
Shashak
sha'-shak (shashak): Eponym of a Benjamite family (1Ch 8:14,25).
Shaul; Shaulites
sha'-ul, sha'-ul-its (sha'ul; Saoul):(1) A king of Edom (Ge 36:37=1Ch 1:48).(2) A son of Simeon (Ge 46:10;Ex 6:15;Nu 26:13;1Ch 4:24). The clan was of notoriously impure stock, a...
Shaveh-Kiriathaim
sha'-ve-kir-ya-tha'-im (shaweh qiryathayim; en Saue te polei): Here Chedorlaomer is said to have defeated the Emim (Ge 14:5). the Revised Version margin reads "the plain of Kiri...
Shaveh, Vale Of
sha'-ve (`emeq shaweh).See KING'S VALE.
Shaving
shav'-ing (inJob 1:20, gazaz, usually galach; inAc 21:24, xurao): Customs as to shaving differ in different countries, and in ancient and modern times. Among the Egyptians it wa...
Shavsha
shav'-sha (shawsha'; in2Sa 20:25, Kethibh, sheya', Kere, shewa', English Versions of the Bible "Sheva," are refuted by the Septuagint; in2Sa 8:15-18, in other respects identical...
Shawl
shol: the Revised Version (British and American) substitutes "shawls" for the King James Version "wimples" inIsa 3:22.SeeDRESS.
Sheaf; Sheaves
shef, shevz ('alummah, `omer, `amir): When the grain is reaped, it is laid in handfuls back of the reaper to be gathered by children or those who cannot stand the harder work of...
Sheal
she'-al (she'al, "request"): One of the Israelites of the sons of Bani who had taken foreign wives (Ezr 10:29, Septuagint: Salouia; Septuagint, Lucian, Assael; /RAPC 1Es 9:30, "...
Shealtiel
she-ol'-ti-el (she'alti'el, but inHag 1:12,14;2:2, shalti'el; Septuagint and the New Testament always Salathiel, hence, "Salathiel" of 1 Esdras 5:5,48,56; 6:2; the King James Ve...
Shear
sher.SeeSHEEP;SHEEP TENDING.
Shear-Jashub
she-ar-ja'-shub or jash'-ub (she'ar yashubh, "a remnant shall return"; Septuagint ho kataleiphtheis Iasoub): The son of Isaiah, who accompanied him when he set out to meet Ahaz ...
Sheariah
she-a-ri-a, she-ar'-ya (she`aryah; Saraia): A descendant of Saul (1Ch 8:38;9:44).
Shearing House
sher'-ing (beth `eqedh ha-ro`im, "house of binding of the shepherds"; Codex Vaticanus Baithakath (Codex Alexandrinus Baithakad) ton poimenon): Here in the course of his extincti...
Sheath
sheth.SeeSWORD.
Sheba (1)
she'-ba (shebha'; Saba):(1) Sheba and Dedan are the two sons of Raamah son of Cush (Ge 10:7).(2) Sheba and Dedan are the two sons of Jokshan the son of Abraham and Keturah (Ge 2...
Sheba (2)
she'-ba (shebha`; Sabee, or Samaa): The name of one of the towns allotted to Simeon (Jos 19:2). the King James Version mentions it as an independent town, but as it is not menti...
Sheba, Queen Of
SeeQUEEN OF SHEBA.
Shebah
she'-ba.SeeSHIBAH.
Shebam
she'-bam.SeeSEBAM.
Shebaniah
sheb-a-ni'-a, she-ban'-ya (shebhanyah, in1Ch 15:24, shebhanyahu):(1) Name of a Levite or a Levitical family that participated in the religious rites that followed the reading of...