Smith's Bible Dictionary

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SHAMMUA

(renowned).Reubenite spy, son of Zaccur. (Numbers 13:4) (B.C. 1490.)Son of David, by his wife Bathsheba. (1 Chronicles 14:4) (B.C. 1045.)A Levite, the father of Abda. (Nehemiah ...

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SHAMMUAH

son of David, (2 Samuel 5:14) elsewhere called Shammua and Shimea.

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SHAMSHERAI

(sunlike), a Benjamite. (1 Chronicles 8:26)

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SHAPHAM

(bold), a Gadite of Bashan. (1 Chronicles 5:12) (B.C. 750.)

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SHAPHAN

(coney), the scribe or secretary of King Josiah. (2 Kings 22:3,14; 2 Chronicles 34:8,20) (B.C. 628.) He appears on an equality with the governor of the city and the royal record...

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SHAPHAT

(judge). 1.The Simeonite spy, son of Hori. (Numbers 13:5) (B.C. 1490).The father of the prophet Elisha. (1 Kings 19:18,19; 2 Kings 3:11; 6:31) (B.C. before 900.)One of the six s...

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SHAPHER

(brightness), Mount, (Numbers 33:23) the name of a desert station where the Israelites encamped during the wanderings in the wilderness.

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SHARAI

(releaser), one of the sons of Bani. (Ezra 10:40) (B.C. 457.)

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SHARAIM

[SHAARAIM]

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SHARAR

(strong), the father of Ahiam the Hararite. (2 Samuel 23:33) In (1 Chronicles 11:35) he is called SACAR. (B.C. 1040.)

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SHAREZER

(prince of fire) was a son of Sennacherib, whom, In conjunction with his brother Adrammelech, he murdered. (2 Kings 19:37) (B.C. after 711.)

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SHARON

(a plain), a district of the holy land occasionally referred to in the Bible. (1 Chronicles 5:16; Isaiah 33:9) In (Acts 9:35) called SARON. The name has on each occurrence with ...

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SHARONITE

(belonging to Sharon), The Shitrai, who had charge of the royal herds in the plain of Sharon, (1 Chronicles 27:29) is the only Sharonite mentioned in the Bible.

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SHARUHEN

(refuge of grace), a town named in (Joshua 19:6) only among those which were in Jadah to Simeon. It is identified with Sheriah a large ruin in the south country, northwest of Be...

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SHASHAI

(noble), one of the sons of Bani in the time of Ezra. (Ezra 10:40) (B.C. 457.)

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SHASHAK

(longing), a Benjamite, one of the sons of Beriah. (1 Chronicles 8:14,25) (B.C. after 1450.)

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SHAUL

(asked).The son of Simeon by a Canaanitish woman, (Genesis 48:10; Exodus 6:15; Numbers 26:13; 1 Chronicles 4:24) and founder of the family of the Shaulites. (B.C. 1712.)One of t...

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SHAVEH

(plain), The valley of, described (Genesis 14:17) as "the valley of the king," is mentioned again in (2 Samuel 18:18) as the site of a pillar set up by Absalom.

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SHAVEH KIRIATHAIM

(plain of the double city), mentioned (Genesis 14:5) as the residence of the Emim at the time of Chedorlaomer’s incursion. Kiriathaim is named in the later history, though it ha...

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SHAVSHA

(nobility), the royal secretary in the reign of David, (1 Chronicles 18:16) called also SERAIAH in (2 Samuel 8:17) And SHEVA in (2 Samuel 20:25) End in (1 Kings 4:3) SHISHA.

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SHAWM

In the Prayer-book version of (Psalms 98:6) "with trumpets also stands also and shawms " is the rendering of what stands in the Authorized Version "with trumpets and sound of co...

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SHEAL

(asking), one of the sons of Bani who had married a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:29) (B.C. 452.)

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SHEALTIEL

(asked of God), father of Zerubbabel. (Ezra 3:2,8; 5:2; Nehemiah 12:1; Haggai 1:1,12,14; 2:2,23) (B.C. about 580.)

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SHEARIAH

(valued by Jehovah), one of the six sons of Azel a descendant of Saul. (1 Chronicles 8:38; 9:41)

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SHEARINGHOUSE, THE

a place on the road between Jezreel and Samaria, at which Jehu, on his way to the latter, encountered forty-two members of the royal family of Judah, whom he slaughtered. (2 Kin...

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SHEARJASHUB

(lit. a remnant shall return), the symbolical name of the son of Isaiah the prophet. (Isaiah 7:3)

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SHEBA

one of the towns of the allotment of Simeon, (Joshua 19:2) probably the same as Shema. (Joshua 15:26)