Skin
(`or, geledh, "human skin" (Job 16:15), basar, "flesh," in the sense of "nakedness" (Ps 102:5the King James Version); derma):Literal:The word `or designates the skin of both men...
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Skirt
skurt:(1) kanaph, "wing" "extremity" (Ru 3:9, etc.), is the usual word. But in1Sa 24:4ff perhaps "corner" is the best translation.(2) shul, "loose hanging" (Ex 28:33, etc.; in t...
Skull
skul (gulgoleth; kranion): The Hebrew word, which is well known to Bible readers in its Aramaic-Greek form "Golgotha," expresses the more or less globular shape of the human sku...
Sky
ski (shachaq, "fine dust" or "cloud," apparently from [?] shachaq, "to rub," "to pulverize"; Samaritan: shechaqayyah instead of Hebrew shamayim; sachq = "cloud," "small dust"):1...
Slander
slan'-der (substantive, dibbah, "slander"; diabolos, "slanderer"; verb raghal, "to slink about" as a talebearer, lashan, "to use the tongue," "to slander"; diaballo, "to calumni...
Slaughter, Of The Innocents
slo'-ter.See INNOCENTS, MASSACRE OF THE.
Slaughter, Valley Of
InJer 7:32;19:6, a name given to the valley of Hinnom.See HINNOM, VALLEY OF; JERUSALEM, III, 2.
Slave; Slavery
slav, slav'-er-i:1. Acquiring of Slaves2. Hebrews as War Captives3. Freedom of Slaves4. Rights of Slaves5. Rights of Slave Masters6. The New Testament ConceptionLITERATUREThe or...
Slaying
sla'-ing (by spear, dart, or sword).SeePUNISHMENTS.
Sleep
slep: Represents many words in Hebrew and Greek. For the noun the most common are shenah, and hupnos; for the verb, yashen, shakhabh, and katheudo. The figurative uses for death...
Sleep, Deep
(tardemah, verb radham, from a root meaning "to be deaf"): The verb radham has no further meaning than "to be fast asleep" (Jud 4:21;Jon 1:5), but the King James Version used "d...
Sleeves
slevz (Ge 37:3margin).See DRESS;
Sleight
slit: No connection with "slight," but from the same root as "sly" and so = "cunning." So inEph 4:14, "sleight of men," for kubeia, "dice-plalying" (compare "cube") "gamblers' t...
Slime; Slime Pits
slim, slim'-pits (chemar; Septuagint asphaltos; Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) bitumen; the Revised Version margin "bitumen"; compare Arabic chummar, "bitumen"; an...
Sling
See ARMOR, III, 2.
Slip
As meaning "a cutting from a plant," it is still good English. In this sense inIsa 17:10for zemorah, "branch," "twig." For the phrase "slip of the tongue" compare Sirach 14:1; 1...
Slopes
slops.SeeASHDOTH PISGAH.
Slow
slo: Chiefly for 'erekh, literally, "long," in the phrase "slow to anger" (Ne 9:17, etc.). InEx 4:10;Lu 24:25;Jas 1:19, for kabhedh; bradus, both meaning "heavy," "sluggish," wh...
Sluggard
slug'-ard: Found only in the Old Testament, and there only in Proverbs. It is the rendering given the word 'atsel everywhere in the Revised Version (British and American), but i...
Sluice
sloos (sekher, literally, "hire"): InIsa 19:10, the King James Version reads, "all that make sluices and ponds for fish." the Revised Version (British and American) entirely alt...
Smell
smel (Hebrew and Aramaic reach, as noun, "savor," "scent"; ruach, as verb, literally, "to breathe," "to inhale," thence "to smell"; osme, the "smell," "savor," euodia, "sweet sm...
Smith
smith.See CRAFTS, 10; TUBAL-CAIN.
Smiting By The Sun
See SUN, SMITING BY.
Smoke
smok: Used figuratively of the divine jealousy (De 29:20) and anger (Ps 74:1); symbolic of the glory of the divine holiness (Isa 4:5;6:4;Re 15:8).
Smyrna
smur'-na (Smurna):1. Ancient:Smyrna, a large ancient city on the western coast of Asia Minor, at the head of a gulf which reaches 30 miles inland, was originally peopled by the ...
Snail
snal((1) chomeT, the Revised Version (British and American) "sand-lizard," Septuagint saura, "lizard" (Le 11:30);(2) shabbelul, Septuagint keros, "wax" (Ps 58:8)):(1) ChomeT is ...
Snare
snar (pach; pagis, but brochos, in1Co 7:35): Over half a dozen Hebrew words are used to indicate different methods of taking birds and animals, of which the snare (pach) is ment...