American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

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Sinim

Isa 49:12, a people very remote from the Holy Land, towards the east or south; generally believed to mean the Chinese, who have been known to Western Asia from early times, and ...

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Sinites

A Canaanite tribe, probably near Mount Lebanon, Ge 10:17; 1Ch 1:15.

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Sion

1. A name given in De 4:48 to one of the elevations on the mountain ridge called Hermon, which see.2. The Greek or New Testament form of Zion, which see.

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Sirion

SeeHERMON.

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Sisera

A general in the army of Jabin king of Hazor, sent by his master against Barak and Deborah, who occupied Mount Tabor with an army. Being defeated, he fled on foot, and was inglo...

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Sister

In the style of the Hebrews, "sister" had equal latitude with "brother." It is used, not only for a sister by natural relation, from the same father and mother, but also for a s...

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Sith

An obsolete word, meaning since, Eze 35:6.

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Sivan

The third Hebrew ecclesiastical month, and the ninth of the civil year, beginning with the new moon of our June, Es 8:9.

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Slave

Jer 2:14; Re 18:13. SeeSERVANT.

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Slime

SeePITCH, andSEA3.

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Sling

An instrument much used in war before the invention of firearms. It was a formidable weapon in hands like those of David and the Benjamites, Jud 20:161Sa 17:48-501Ch 12:22Ch 26:14.

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Smith

An artificer in brass, iron, etc., first mentioned in Ge 4:22. The art of the smith is one of the essential of civilization; and without it a nation was peculiarly defenseless i...

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Smyrna

A celebrated Ionian city situated at the head of a deep gulf on the western coast of Asia Minor, forty miles north by west of Ephesus. It was one of the richest and most powerfu...

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Snail

In Le 11:30, is probably a sort of lizard; and in Ps 58:8, the common slug or snail without a shell, which "melteth" away by depositing its slime wherever it passes.

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Snow

Is often alluded to in Scripture, for its whiteness, Ex 4:6; Nu 12:10; 2Ki 5:27; Ps 51:7; Isa 1:18, and for its cleansing qualities, Job 9:30. The expression in Pr 25:13, "as th...

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So

King of Egypt, made an alliance with Hoshea king of Israel, and promised him assistance; but was unable to prevent Shalmaneser king of Assyria from taking Samaria and subverting...

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Soap

Mal 3:2, Hebrew, borith, the cleanser; in Jer 2:22 distinguished from nitre, which see. It is well known that the ancient used certain vegetables and their ashes for the purpose...

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Socoh Or Shochoh

1 1Ki 4:10, a town in the plain of Judah, near Azekah, famous for a battle of David and Saul with the Philistines, 1Sa 17:1; against whom Rehoboam fortified it, and by whom it w...

181

Sodom

One of the cities of the plain, and for some time the dwellingplace of Lot, Ge 13:10-13 14:12. Its crimes and vices were so enormous, that God destroyed it by fire from heaven, ...

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Solomon

Peaceful, the son and successor of David, born of Bathsheba, B. C. 1033. The prophet Nathan called him Jedidiah, "beloved of the Lord," 2Sa 12:25 and he was a child of promise, ...

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Solomon’s Pools

Ec 2:6. Among these may perhaps be included the ancient structures now so called, two or three miles southwest of Bethlehem. These are three large reservoirs lying one above and...

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Solomon’s Porch

SeeTEMPLE.

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Solomon’s Song

Called alsoCANTICLES, and Song of Songs, B. C. 1012. This highly figurative and beautiful poem has always held a place in the canonical Scriptures, and of course was a part of t...

186

Son

Sometimes denotes a grandson, or any remote descendant, Ge 29:52Sa 19:24. At other times a son by adoption is meant, Ge 48:5; or by law, Ru 4:17; or by education, 1Sa 3:6 20:35;...

187

Son Of God

A peculiar appellation of Christ, expressing his eternal relationship to the Father, Ps 2:7Da 3:25Lu 1:35Joh 1:18,34. Christ always claimed to be the only-begotten Son of the Fa...

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Son Of Man

a title of Christ, assumed by himself in his humiliation, Joh 1:51.It was understood as a designation of the Messiah, according to Old Testament predictions, Ps 80:17Da 7:13,14;...

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Soothsayer

SeeSORCERER.