Shiphrah And Puah
Midwives in Egypt, who through the fear of God spared the newborn sons of the Hebrews, contrary to the orders of the king. God rewarded their kindness to his people, though cond...
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American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, American Tract Society, c. 1859, edited by W. W. Rand.
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Shishak
A king of Egypt, who declared war against Rehoboam king of Judah in the fifth year of his reign. He entered Judah, B. C. 971, with an innumerable multitude of people out of Egyp...
Shittah And Shittim
A valuable kind of wood, of which Moses made the greater part of the tables, altars, and planks belonging to the tabernacle. Jerome says, "The wood is hard, tough, smooth, and w...
Shoes
SeeSANDALS.
Shoshannim-Eduth
Lilies of testimony, Ps 60:12. SeeSHUSHAN.
Shrine
SeeDIANA.
Shulamite
Peaceful, in Hebrew a feminine name, corresponding to Solomon as Julia does to Julius. It is the figurative name of the bride in Solomon’s Song, So 6:13; and the bridegroom is r...
Shunem
A city of Issachar, Jos 19:18. The Philistines encamped at Shunem, in the great field or Plain of Esdraelon, 1Sa 28:4; and Saul encamped at Gilboa. Abishag, king of David’s nurs...
Shur
A city on the northeast border of Egypt, not far from the modern Suez, Ge 16:7; 20:1; 25:18; 1Sa 15:7; 27:8. It gave its name to the desert between it and Canaan, towards the Me...
Shushan
1. Ps 60:1-12, title; pluralSHOSHANNIM, Ps 45:1-14 69:1-36, titles; the name of a musical instrument. The word signifies a lily, or lilies; and if the instrument were so named f...
Sibmah
A city of Reuben, Nu 32:28; Jos 13:19; Isa 16:8,9, speaks of the vines of Sibmah, which were cut down by the enemies of the Moabites; for that people had taken the city of Sibma...
Siddim
SeeSEA3.
Sidon
In the Old TestamentZIDON, now called Saida, was celebrated city of Phoenicia, on the Mediterranean Sea, twenty miles north of Tyre and as many south of Beyroot. It is one of th...
Sign
A token, pledge, or proof, Ge 9:12,13 17:11 Ex 3:12Isa 8:18. Also a supernatural portent, Lu 21:11; and a miracle, regarded as a token of the divine agency, Ex 4:7-9Mr 8:11. The...
Signet
A ring for sealing. SeeRINGandSEAL, SEALING.
Sihon
King of the Amorites at Heshbon, on refusing passage to the Hebrews, and coming to attack them, was himself slain, his army routed, and his dominions divided among Israel, Nu 21...
Sihor
Black or turbid, the Nile. In Isa 23:3 and Jer 2:18, this name must necessarily be understood of the Nile. In Jos 13:3; 1Ch 13:5, some have understood it of the little river bet...
Silas
Ac 23:3, andSILVANUS, 2Co 1:19, the former name being a contraction of the latter; one of the chief men among the first disciples at Jerusalem, Ac 15:22, and supposed by some to...
Silk
In the time of the Ptolemies, came to Greece and Rome from the far east of China, etc., by the way of Alexandria, and was sold for its weight in gold. It sometimes came in the f...
Siloam
Joh 9:7,11, orSHILOAH, Ne 3:15Isa 8:6; a fountain and pool at the vase of the hill Ophel, near the opening of the Tyropoeon into the valley of the Kidron on the south of Jerusal...
Silvanus
SeeSILAS.
Silver
One of the precious metals and the one most commonly used as coin among all nations. It is first mentioned in Scripture in the history of Abraham, Ge 13:2 20:16 23:16, and was u...
Simeon
1. One of the twelve patriarches, the son of Jacob and Leah, Ge 29:33Ex 6:15. Some have thought he was more guilty than his brethren in the treatment of Joseph, Ge 37:20 42:24 4...
Simon
1. One of the twelve apostles. SeePETER.2. The Canaanite, or Zelotes, one of the twelve apostles. SeeZELOTES.3. One of the "brethren" of Jesus, Mt 13:55Mr 6:3. He is by some sup...
Simple And Simplicity
Sometimes used in the Bible in a good sense, denoting sincerity, candor, and an artless ignorance of evil, Ro 16:192Co 1:12 11:3; sometimes in a bad sense, denoting heedless foo...
Sin
1. Any thought, word, desire, action, or omission of action, contrary to the law of God, or defective when compared with it.The origin of sin is a subject which baffles all inve...
Sinai
A mountain, or mountain range, in Arabia Petraea, in the peninsula formed by the two arms of the Red Sea, and rendered memorable as the spot where the law was given to Israel th...