SCYTHIAN
occurs in (Colossians 3:11) as a generalized term for rude, ignorant, degraded. The name often included all the nomadic tribes, who dwelt mostly on the north of the Black and th...
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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SCYTHOPOLIS
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SEA
The sea, yam, is used in Scripture to denote--"The gathering of the waters," "the Ocean." (Genesis 1:2,10; 30:13) etc.Some portion of this, as the Mediterranean Sea, called the ...
SEA, MOLTEN
In the place of the laver of the tabernacle Solomon caused a laver to be cast for a similar purpose, which from its size was called a sea. It was made partly or wholly of the br...
SEA, THE SALT
the usual and perhaps the most ancient name for the remarkable lake which to the western world is now generally known as the Dead Sea. I. Names.-- (1) The Salt Sea, (Genesis 14:...
SEAL
The importance attached to seals in the East is so great that without one no document is regarded as authentic. Among the methods of sealing used in Egypt at a very early period...
SEBA
(pl. Sebaim; in Authorized Version incorrectly rendered Sabeans) heads the list of the sons of Cush. Besides the mention of Seba in the lists of the pens of Cush, (Genesis 10:7;...
SEBAT
(a rod). [MONTH]
SECACAH, OR SECACAH
(thicket), one of the six cities of Judah which were situated in the Midbar ("wilderness"), that is, the tract bordering on the Dead Sea. (Joshua 15:61) Its portion is not known.
SECHU
(the watch-tower), a place mentioned once only -- (1 Samuel 19:22) --apparently as lying on the route between Saul’s residence, Gibeah, and Ramah (Ramathaim-zophim), that of Sam...
SECUNDUS
(fortunate), a Thessalonian Christian. (Acts 20:4) (A.D. 55.) Seer, [PROPHET]
SEGUB
(elevated).The youngest son of Hiel the Hethelite who rebuilt Jericho. (1 Kings 18:34) (B.C. about 910.)Son of Hezron. (1 Chronicles 2:21,28) (B.C. about 1682.)
SEIR
(hairy, Shaggy),We have both "land of Seir," (Genesis 32:3; 36:50) and "Mount Seir." (Genesis 14:6) It is the original name of the mountain range extending along the east side o...
SEIRATH
(the shaggy), the place to which Ehud fled after his murder of Eglon. (Judges 3:26,27) It was in "Mount Ephraim," ver. 27, a continuation, perhaps, of the same wooded, shaggy hi...
SELA, OR SELAH
(the rock), (2 Kings 14:7; Isaiah 16:1) so rendered in the Authorized Version in Judges city later (2 Chronicles 25:12) probably known as Petra, the ruins of which are found abo...
SELAH
This word, which is found only in the poetical books of the Old Testament, occurs seventy-one times in the Psalms and three times in Habakkuk. It is probably a term which had a ...
SELAHAMMAHLEKOTH
(the cliff of escapes or of divisions), a rock or cliff in the wilderness of Maon, southeast of Hebron, the scene of one of those remarkable escapes which are so frequent in the...
SELED
(exultation), one of the sons of Nadab, a descendant of Jerahmeel: (1 Chronicles 2:30) (B.C. after 1450.)
SELEUCIA, OR SELEUCIA
(named after its founder, Seleucus), near the mouth of the Orontes, was practically the seaport of Antioch. The distance between the two towns was about 16 miles. St. Paul, with...
SELEUCUS
the name of five kings of the Greek dominion of Syria who are hence called Seleucidae. Only one--the fourth --is mentioned in the Apocrypha.
SELEUCUS IV
(Philopator), son of Antiochus the Great, whom he succeeded B.C. 187 "king of Asia," 2 Macc. 3:3, that is, of the provinces included in the Syrian monarchy, according to the tit...
SEM
SHEM the patriarch. (Luke 3:36)
SEMACHIAH
(Jehovah sustains him) one of the sons of SKEMAIAH, 9. (1 Chronicles 26:7)
SEMEI
(the Greek form of Shimei).SHIMEI, 14. 1 Esd. 9:33.SHIMEI, 16. (Esther 11:2)The father of Mattathias in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. (Luke 3:26)
SEMEIN
In the Revised Version of (Luke 3:26) for Semei.
SEMITIC LANGUAGES
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SENAAH
(thorny). The "children (i.e. the inhabitants) of Senaah" are enumerated among the "people of Israel" who returned from the captivity with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:35; Nehemiah 7:38)...