International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Swift

SeeSWALLOW.

Swift Beasts

(kirkaroth (Isa 66:20)): the King James Version and the English Revised Version "swift beasts," the English Revised Version margin and the American Standard Revised Version "dro...

Swine

swin (chazir; compare Arabic khinzir; hus, Septuagint and New Testament; compare Greek sus, and Latin sus; adjective hueios, as a substantive, the Septuagint; choiros, Septuagin...

Swollen

swol'-'-n (pimprasthai, only inAc 28:6): The Melitans expected to see Paul poisoned by the viper's bite. the Revised Version (British and American) and the King James Version tr...

Sword

sord.See ARMOR, III, 5.

Sycamine, Tree

sik'-a-min, (sukaminos (Lu 17:6)): This is generally accepted as the black mulberry tree (Morus nigra; Natural Order, Urlicaceae), known in Arabic as tut shrami, "the Damascus m...

Sycamore

sik'-a-mor.SeeSYCOMORE.

Sychar

si'-kar (Suchar): Mentioned only once, in connection with the visit of Jesus to Jacob's Well (Joh 4:5). He was passing through Samaria on His way to Galilee, "so he cometh to a ...

Sychem

Sycomore, Tree

sik'-o-mor, (shiqmah, Aramaic shiqema' plural shiqmim; in Septuagint wrongly translated by sukaminos, "the mulberry"; see SYCAMINE (1Ki 10:27;1Ch 27:28;2Ch 1:15;9:27;Isa 9:10;Am...

Syene

si-e'-ne.SeeSEVENEH.

Symeon

sim'-e-on (Sumeon): the Revised Version (British and American) inLu 3:30;Ac 13:1;15:14for the King James Version "Simeon" (which see). The persons are:(1) An ancestor of Jesus (...

Synagogue

sin'-a-gog:1. Name2. Origin3. Spread of Synagogues4. The Building(1) The Site(2) The Structure(3) The Furniture5. The Officials(1) The Elders(2) The Ruler(3) The Servant (or Ser...

Synagogue Of Libertines

SeeLIBERTINES.

Synagogue Of Satan

See SATAN, SYNAGOGUE OF.

Synagogue, The Great

A college or assembly of learned men, originating with Ezra, to whom Jewish tradition assigns an important share in the formation of the Old Testament Canon, and many legal enac...

Synoptic; Gospels

si-nop'-tik,See GOSPELS, THE SYNOPTIC.

Syntyche

sin'-ti-ke (Suntuche, literally, "fortunate" (Php 4:2)): A Christian woman in the church at Philippi; She and Euodia, who had some quarrel or cause of difference between them, a...

Synzygus

sin'-zi-gus (sunzuge): InPhp 4:3it is rendered "yokefellow." WHm (Sunzuge), Thayer, Lex. New Testament, 594 (Suzuge), and others, take it as a proper name in this passage.view o...

Syracuse

sir'-a-kus, sir-a-kus' (Surakousai; Latin Syracusae, Ital. Siracusa): Situated on the east coast of Sicily, about midway between Catania and the southeastern extremity of the is...

Syria (1)

sir'-i-a (Suria (Mt 4:24;Lu 2:2)):1. Name and Its Origin2. Other Designations3. Physical(1) The Maritime Plain(2) First MoUntain Belt(3) Second Mountain Belt(4) Great Central Va...

Syria (2)

sir'-i-ak: InDa 2:4, for the King James Version "Syriack" the Revised Version (British and American) has "Syrian," and in the margin "Or, `in Aramaic.'"SeeARAMAIC LANGUAGE;LANGU...

Syria-Maachah

sir'-i-a-ma'a-ka.SeeMAACAH;SYRIA.

Syriac Versions

|| 1. Analogy of Latin Vulgate2. The Designation "Peshito" ("Peshitta")3. Syriac Old Testament4. Syriac New Testament5. Old Syriac Texts(1) Curetonian(2) Tatian's Diatessaron(3)...

Syrian; Language

sir'-i-an (the King James Version SYRIAC).SeeSYRIAC VERSIONS.

Syrians

sir'-i-anz ('aram; Suroi; Assyrian Aramu, Arumu, Arimu):1. Division of Aram2. A Semitic Race3. Syria and Israel4. Under Nabateans and Palmyrenes5. A Mixed Race, Semitic Type6. R...

Syrophoenician

si'-ro-fe-nish'-an, sir-o- (Surophoinissa, Surophoinikissa; Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek has variant Sura Phoinikissa; the King James Version Syrophenician): Th...