Rodon
Rodon (rei'don), (gr. Absov Hron'tion, Rose), Occurs Only In The Apocryphal Books Of Eccles Iasticus And The Book Of Wisdom. In The English Translation Of The Hebrew Scrip Tures 'rose' Occurs Also In The Song Of Solomon (xi :r) And In Isaiah (xxxv :1) ; But In Neither Of These ...
Rolling Thing
Rolling Thing (rolling Thing), (heb. Vn.• Gal-gal'), Translated " Wheel " In Ps. Lxxxiii:13; Is. V:28; Ezek. X:2, 6. It Is Rendered In R. V. "whirlwind" In Ps. Lxxvii :18. In Is. Xvii :13 It Is Translated "like A Rolling Thing Before The Whirlwind." Thomson, Land And Book, P. 357-358, ...
Roman Empire
Roman Empire (rd'man Em'pir), The Gov Ernment Of The Romans As Conducted By The Emperors, Of Whom Augustus Was The First. The Term May Be Taken With Some Latitude Of Meaning, As Representing The Roman State Since The Romans Came Into Contact With The Jews Be Fore The Commencement Of ...
Roman Religion
Roman Religion (ro'man The Romans Distinguished Their Own Divinities As Gods Of Heaven, Gods Of Earth, And Gods Of The Underworld, And In That Order Let Us Consider Them. (1) The Gods Of Heaven. The Romans, Like All Their Kindred Races, Inherited From Their Indo Germanic Forefathers The Germs Out ...
Rothem
Rothem (ro'th6m), Written Also Rotem Ro-thern'), Occurs In Four Passages Of The Old Testament, In All Of Which It Is Translated Juniter In The Auth.vers., Though It Is Now Consid Ered Very Clear That A Kind Of Broom Is Intended. Beloit Mentions Finding It In Several Places When Traveling In ...
Running Run
Run, Running (run, Rtin'ning). See Games. Rush (rush). See Agnion; Reed. Rust (rust), (gr. Bro'sis, Eating; Tic, Ee Cs'). This Is The Translation Of Two Different Greek Words In Matt. Vi :19, 20, And In James V :3. In The Former Passage The Word Brosis Has By Some Been Understood ...
Sabbath
Sabbath (sab'bath). The Original Word Shab-bawth'), Signifies Simply Rest, Cessation From Labor Or Employment. The Term, However, Became Appropriated In A Specific Religious Sense, To Signify The Dedication Of A Precise Portion Of Time To Cessation From Worldly Labor, And A Peculiar Consecration By Virtue Of Which A Sanctity Was ...
Sabbath Days Journey
Sabbath Day's Journey (sab'bath Da's Jiir'nsr), (gr. Capfhirou 6.56s Sab-batou Hod-os', A Sab Bath's Journey, Acts I :12), The Distance Which The Jews Were Permitted To Journey From And Return To Their Places Of Residence Upon The Sabbath Day (exod. Xvi :29). • The Israelites Were Forbidden To Go Beyond ...
Sacred Prostitution
Prostitution, Sacred (pros'il-tri-shim, Sa'kred). (1) In Babylonia. According To Herodotus, Every Woman Born In Babylonia Was Obliged By Law, Once In Her Life To Submit To The Embrace Of A Stranger. Those Who Were Gifted With Beauty Of Face Or Figure Soon Completed This Offering To Venus, But Of The ...
Sacrifice
Sacrifice (salc'ef-fiz). Several Words Are Used In Scripture For Sacrifice, Among Them Are The Following: 1. Al In-k Haw' (heb. Something Given, A Gift (gen. Xxxii:13, 18, 20, 21; Xliii:i T, Etc.); Tribute (2 Sam. Viii:2, 6 ; 2 Kings Xvii:4); An Offering To God (i Citron. Xvi:29; Is. I:t ...
Sadducees
Sadducees (sad'du - Seez), ( Hcb. Tsad-doo-keem' ; Gr. Y,a38otwa7os, .sad-doo-kah'yos), (matt. Iii:7; Xvi:i, 6, I1, 12; Nxii:23, 34; Mark Xii:18; Luke Xx:27; Acts Iv:f ; V:17; Xxiii:6-8). One Of The Three Sects Of Jewish Philosophers, Of Which The Pharisees And The Essenes Were The Others, Who Had Reached Their ...
Salach
Salach (sal'ak), (heb. •14, Shaw-lawk', Bird Of Prey), Usually Thought To He The Pelican (from Casting Itself Into The Sea, Lev. Xi:18; Dent. Xiv:17). It Has Been Variously Applied To The Eagle, The Gerfalcon, The Gannet, The Great Gull, And The Cor Morant. Of The Liebrew Salach Nothing Is Known ...
Salutation
Salutation (sal'il-ta'shim), (heb. Baw ..— Rak.', To Kneel, To Bend; , Shaw-lome', Well, Joyous, Happy, To He Friendly; Gr. &coma Pos, As-pas Ntos', A Salutation Or Greeting). (1) Among The Hebrews. The Forms Of Salu Tation That Prevailed Among The Hebrews, So Far As Can Be Collected From Scripture, Are ...
Salute
Salute (sa-11.1t). See Salutation. Salvation (sal-va'shun). 1. A Deliverance From Temporal Dangers And Enemies (exod. Iii:ro; I Sam. Xiv :45.) 2. Deliverance From A State Of Sin And Misery, Into A State Of Union With Christ, In Which We Are Justified By His Blood, Adopted Into His Family, Sanctified By ...
Samaria
Samaria (sa-ma'ri-a), (heb. Sho-nter One' , Watch-height; ".f..a/adpeta, Sam-ar' I-ah), A City, Situated Near The Middle Of Palestine, Built By Omri, King Of Israel, On A Mountain Or Hill Of The Same Name, About B. C. 925. It Was The Metropolis Of The Kingdom Of Israel, Or Of The Ten ...
Samaritan Pentateuch
Samaritan Pentateuch The Samaritan Pentateuch Was Mentioned By The Fathers Eusebius. Cyril Of Alexandria, Proco Pins Of Gaza, Diodorus, Jerome, And Others. After It Had Lain Concealed For Upwards Of A Thousand Years, Its Existence Began To Be Doubted. At Length Peter Della Valle, In 1616. Procured A Complete Copy, ...
Samaritans
Samaritans (sa-mar'i-tans), (heb. Sho-mer-o-neeve ; Gr. Ealzapeirat, Tahee), A Name Found In The Old Testament Only In 2 Kings Xvii:29. The Ten Tribes Which Revolted From Rehoboam, Son Of Solomon, Chose Jeroboam For Their King. After His Elevation To The Throne He Set Up Golden Calves At Dan And Bethel, ...
Samson
Samson (sam'son), Shim-shone', Little Sun, The Name Of The Celebrated Champion, Deliverer, And Judge Of Israel, Equally Remarkable For His Supernatural Bodily Prowess, His Moral Infirmi Ties, And His Tragical End. He Was The Son Of Manoah, Of The Tribe Of Dan, And Born A. M. 2848, Of A Mother ...
Samuel
Samuel (sam'u-el), (heb. Shem-oo-ale, Asked Or Heard Of God). The Last Of Those Extra Ordinary Regents That Presided Over The Hebrew Commonwealth Under The Title Of Judges. I. Birth And Family. The Circumstances Of His Birth Were Prophetic Of His Future Career. His Father, Elkanah Of Ramathaim-zophim, Of Mount Ephraim. ...
Sandal
Sandal (san'dal), (gr. Eavadmop,san-dal'ee-on, 1,•?• Representing The Heb. Nah'al), Is A Covering For The Feet, Usually Denoted By The Word Trans Lated 'shoe' In The Authorized Version. It Was Usually A Sole Of Hide, Leather, Or Wood, Hound On To The Foot By Thongs ; • But It May Sometimes ...
Sanhedrim
Sanhedrim (sin'h6'-drim), More Properly Sanhedrin (heb. San-he-dreen' ; Gr. Avve3plop, Supreme Council), The Su Preme Judicial Council Of The Jews, Especially For Religious Affairs. (1) Composition. This Council Consisted Of Seventy Members. Some Give The Number At Seventy-two, But For This There Appears No Suffi Cient Authority. To This Number ...
Sapphira
Sapphira (saf-frra), (gr. Lairoelpv, Sap-fi' Ray, A Sapphire Stone, Beautiful), The Wife Of Ananias, And His Accomplice In The Sin For Which He Died (acts V:i-to), A. D. 3o. Unaware Of The Judgment Which Had Befallen Her Husband, She Entered The Place About Three Hours After, Probably To Look For ...
Sarabidi
Sarabidi (s5-r5ibtm). See Thorns. Sarah (sa'rah). 1. Heb. Saw-raw', Princess, Originally Saw-rall'ee). The Wife Of Abraham, Ten Years His Junior, Married To Him In Ur Of The Chaldees (gen. Xi:28-31: Xvii:17). She Was Also His Half-sister, Being The Daughter Of His Father, But Not Of His Mother (xx :12). Her ...
Sardis
Sardis (sdedis), (gr. Edpdegs, Sar' Dice, Sardis), The Capital Of The Ancient Kingdom Of Lydia, Situ Ated At The Foot Of Mount Tmolus, In A Fine Plain Watered By The River Pactolus (herod. Vii, 31 ; Xenophon, Cyrop. Vii, 2-11; Pliny. Hist. Nat.; Strabo, Xiii, P. 625). It Is In ...
Sargon Ii And His
Sargon Ii And His Monuments. "in The Year That Tartan Came Unto Ashdod (when Sargon, The King Of Assyria. Sent Him) And Fought Against Ashdod And Took It" (is. Xx :1). This Is The Only Instance In Which Sargon Is Mentioned By Name In The Scriptures, And We Arc Largely ...
Satan
Satan (sa'tan), (heb. Gat, Saw-tawn' ; Gr. Ecrravas, Sat-an-as', An Opponent), The Chief Of Fallen Spirits. The Doctrine Of Satan And Of Satanic Agency Is To Be Made Out From Revelation, And From Re Flection In Agreement With Revelation. (1) Scripture Names Or Titles. Besides Satan, Lie Is Called The ...
Satyr
Satyr (sa'ter), (heb. Saw-ccr', Shaggy), A He-goat, And So Rendered In Lev. Iv:24; 2 Chron. Xxix:23, Etc., But Satyr In Is. Xiii:21; Xxxiv:14. Satyrs Were Supposed To Be Wild Men, Or Imagi Nary Animals, Half Man And Half Goat, Poetically Introduced By Isaiah, As Dancing Among The Ruins Of Babylon. ...
Savior
Savior (sav'yor), Is A Name Eminently Appro Priated To Our Lord Jesus Christ. He Was Pre Figured By Those To Whom The Old Testament Gives The Appellation, As Joshua, The Judges Of Israel, The Kings David, Solomon And Josiah, And The Other Great Men Raised Up To Deliver The People ...
Scepter
Scepter (septer). The Hebrew Word Thus Rendered Is Shay-bet' (t=?;), Which In Its Primary Significatidn Denotes A Staff Of Wood (ezek. Xix: ), About The Height Of A Man, Which The An Cient Kings And Chiefs Bore As An Insignia Of Honor (iliad, I. 234, 245: Ii. 185, Sq.; Amos ...
Science
Science (si'ens), (heb. Mael-daw' ; Gr. 7140'crts,gno'sz's ; Lat. Scientia). The Word Science Occurs Only Twice In The Bible (dan. I :4 ; I Tim. Vi :20). It Is Elsewhere Rendered "knowledge." In The Passage, Dan. I :4, The Expression "cunning In Knowledge" May Well Be Rendered "skillful In Understanding ...
Science Of Religion
Religion, Science Of (re-ifliin Si'ens 6v). The Science Of Religion, Or Comparative The Ology, Starts With A Study Of The Principal Religions Of The World. The Name Of Comparative Religion Should He Avoided. We Do Not Speak Of Comparative Lan Guage, But Of Comparative Philology. No One Would Use Comparative ...
Scourge
Scourge (skftrj), (hebrew Generally, Ult, Shoot, To Whip); Noun Tilt, Shale, A Whip (job Ix:23; Is. X:26; Xxviii:15,18); Bik-ko' Relit, Properly To Examine (lev. Xix:2o); Gr. Acter Ry6w, Znizs-tig-eo, To Flog (matt. X:17; Xx:t9; Xxiii:34; Luke Xviii:33; John Xix:i; Acts Xxii:25); Opa-yexx6w, Frag-cl-leo, To Lash, As A Public Punishment (matt. ...
Scribes
Scribes (skribz). (heb. Saw - Far?), A Learned Body Of Men, Otherwise Denominated Lawyers, Whose Influence With The Jewish Nation Was Very Great At The Time When Our Savior Ap Peared. There Is Every Probability That This Learned Class Must Have Taken Its Rise Contemporaneously With The Commencement Of The ...
Scythopolis
Scythopolis (s7-thop'o-]is), (gr. 2,004) V R6nts, Sku-thon'fio'lis, City Of The Scythians), A Name Of Bethshean, (judith Iii:to; 2 Macc. Xii:29). Sea (heb. Yawn, Roaring), Was Used By The Hebrew More Extensively Than With Us, Being Applied Generally To All Large Collections Of Water, As They Had Not A Set Of ...
Seasons
Seasons (wens). See Palestine. Seat (set). 1. Kis-say' (heb. Covered), A Throne, As Usually Rendered, But Also Any Seat Occupied By A King (judg. I, Or Other Distinguished Person, As The High-priest (i Sam. I :9 ; Iv :13, 18), The King's Mother (1 Kings Ii:t9), Prime Minister (esth. Iii:1). ...
Sechu
Sechu (se'ku), (heb. 1*), Say'kco, Hill Or Watch Tower), A Village Near Ramab (i Sam. Xix :22), Towards Gibeah. Conder Doubtfully Suggests Shuweikeh, For Suweikeh, Es Its Site, Which Is Three Miles Northwest Of Er-ram Or Ramab. Sect (sat), (gr. Capecns, Hah-ee'res-is, A Choice), A Religious Party, As Sadducces (acts ...
Segue
Segue (s'gub), (heb. Seg-oob', Elevated; Gr. Ee-yol43, Segub). 1. Youngest Son Of The Hiel, Who Rebuilt Jeri Cho (1 Kings Xvi :34), B. C. 91o. According To Joshua's Prediction He Died For His Father's Sin. 2. The Son Of Hezron (grandson Of Judah) By The Daughter Of Machir, The "father" ...
Seirah
Seirah (se'i-rah). See Seirath. Seirath (se'i-rath), (heb. Has-seh-ee Raw', With The Definite Article, The Hairy). The Place Where Ehud Hid After The Murder Of Eglon (judg. And Where He Gathered His Country Men Before The Attack On The Moabites At Jericho (judg. Iii:27). Sela (se'la) Or Selah (heb. Seh'lah, Rock, ...
Semitic Religion 1
Semitic Religion. (1) The Semitic Peoples. The Name "sem Itic" Is Applied To A Body Of Peoples Who In An Cient Times Occupied Districts In Western Asia And Spoke Dialects Which Show Many And Striking Sim Ilarities. Because The Great Majority Of These Peoples Are Described In Genesis As Descendants ...
Sennacherib
Sennacherib (heb. San-khay-reeb'), King Of Assyria, Who, In The Four Teenth Year Of King Hezekiah (b. C. 705) Came Up Against All The Fenced Cities Of Judah And Took Them; On Which Hezekiali Agreed To Pay The Assyrian Monarch A Tribute Of Three Hundred Talents Of Silver, And Thirty Talents ...
Sense
' Sense (s'ens). 1. (heb. Seh'kel, Intelli Gence, Meaning). Thus It Is Said That Ezra And Others "read In The Book, And Gave The Sense" (neb. Viii:8), I. E., Caused The People To Understand. 2. Gr. Alcrovrhpiop, Ahee-sthay-tay'ree-on, Faculty Of The Mind For Perceiving, Understanding, Judg Ing (heb. V:14). Some ...
Sepharad
Sepharad (seph'a-rad), (heb. Sef-aw Rawer ; Sept. 'eopaoci, Efihratha), A Region To Which The Exiles From Jerusalem Were Taken (obad. 2o). Most Of The Rabbins Regard Sepharad As Spain, Interpreting The Whole Passage With Reference To Their Present Captivity Or Dispersion ; And So We Find It In The Syriac ...
Seraiah
Seraiah (se-ra'ya), (heb. Ser-aw-yaw', Jah Has Prevailed; Warrior Of Jehovah). There Are Several Persons Of This Name In Scripture. 1. The Scribe Or Secretary Of David (2 Sam. Viii :17), B. C. About Lots. This Person's Name Is In Other Places Corrupted Into Shera (2 Sam. Xx: 25), Shish° (1 ...
Seraphim
Seraphim ( Se'r'a-fim ) Or Seraphs, The Plural Of The Heb. Saw-raw!', 'burning' Or 'fiery'; Sept. Iepaciolg, In Is. Vi:2-6. (1) Name. The Meaning Of The Word "seraph" Is Extremely Doubtful ; The Only Word Which Re Sembles It In The Current Hebrew Is Saw-ror, "to Burn," Whence The Idea ...
Sermon On The Mount
Sermon On The Mount (seemiin 6n The Mount). The Name Usually Given To A Discourse Deliv Ered By Jesus To His Disciples And A Multitude On A Mountain Near Capernaum, A. D. Perhaps 28 (matt. Chapters V-vii; Luke Vi :20, Sq.). It Was Probably Delivered After The Choice Of The ...
Serpent
Serpent (ser'pent), (heb. Naw-khawsh', A Snake). (1) Two Classes. Serpents May Be Divided Generally Into Two Very Distinct Sections,—the First Embracing All Those That Are Provided With Mova Ble Tubular Fangs And Poison Bags In The Upper Jaw ; All Regarded As Ovoviviparous, And Called By Contraction Vipers; They Constitute ...
Serpent Worship
Serpent Worship. The Subject Of Serpent Worship Is One Of The Most Truly Fascinat Ing That Ever Engages The Attention Of Anthro Pologists. However Much Has Been Written In Relation To It, We Are Still Only Just Awakening To The Necessity Of Understanding The Origin Of This Superstition As Well ...
Serpent Worship 2
Serpent Worship.) (2) "winged Serpents," The Supposed Winged Serpent Which Appears To Be Alluded To In 'the Fiery Flying Serpent' Of Isaiah (xiv ; Xxx:6), Although The Term Is Thought By Some To Be A Fig Urative One (see Serpent, Fiery), Seems, As Well As The 'adder,' To Have Been ...
Seven
Seven (seven), (heb. She' Ba, Whence The Greek Lard, Hefita, Seven, The Aspirate Breathing Being Substituted For The Sibilant Letter, As In Six, For Etc., Which, However, Appears Again In The Latin Sefitem, And The English Seven). This Word Is Used To Express The Number 6 I. (1) Used To ...
Seventy Weeks
Seventy Weeks (s'ev"nq Weks). That The Seventy Weeks Mentioned By Daniel Denote Weeks Of Years Is Agreed By Almost Every Commentator, But Not The Time When These Seventy Weeks, Or 490 Years, Began. It Is Plain They Began From An Edict Or Warrant To Build The City Of Jeru Salem, ...
Shadow
Shadow (shad'o), (heb. Tsale, Or Tsal-maw'veth; Gr. Crtaci, Skee'ah; Droaktacrtta, Ai5-os-kee'as-mak, Shading Off; Karaakt Drco, Kat-as-kee-ad'zo, Obscuration). As The Shadow Of A Man, Etc., When It Falls On The Ground, Is Of Different Lengths At Different Times Of The Day, And As The Time Of The Day Was Originally Estimated ...
Shallum
Shallum (sharlum), (heb. Shat Retribution). 1. The Fifteenth King Of Israel. In The Troubled Times Which Followed The Death Of Jeroboam Il (b. C. 772), His Son Zechariah Was Slain In The Presence Of The People By Shallum, Who By This Act Extinguished The Dynasty Of Jehu. Shallum Then Mounted ...
Shalt
Shalt (shah). See Thorns And Thistles. Shamed (sha'ked), (heb. Shaw-kade' Wakeful), Occurs In Several Passages Of Scripture, And Is Generally Acknowledged To Mean The Almond; As In Gen. Where Jacob Desires His Sons To Take Into Egypt Of The Best Fruits Of The Land Almonds(shakedim), Etc. In Exod. Xxv :33, ...
Shaphan
Shaphan Coney), Occurs In Lev. Xi:5; Deut. Xiv:7; Ps. Civ. 18; L'rov. Xxx :26). Commentators In General Now Conclude, On The Most Satisfactory Grounds, That Those Versions Which Give Coney For The Hebrew Shaw-fawn' Are Incorrect ; But Several Maintain That The Species To N% Hich Show-fawn' Belongs Ruminates, Which ...
Sharon
Sharon (shar'on), (heb. Shaw-rone', A Plain). 1. A Level Tract Along The Mediterranean, Be Tween Mount Carmel And Caesarea, Celebrated For Its Rich Fields And Pastures (josh. Xii :18 Cant. Ii Is. Xxxiii :9; Xxxv :2; Lxv :10 ; I Chron. Xxvii :29). Called Also Saron (acts Ix :35). It ...
Sheba
Sheba (sheba), (heb. Sheb-aw'). 1. Son Of Raamah (gen. X :7; 1 Chron. I :9) Who, It Is Thought, Inhabited Arabia Felix, Where His Father Raamah Dwelt. B. C. After 2515. (see 4.) 2. Son Of Joktan (gen. X:28; 1 Chron. 1:22), Whom Bochart Places In Arabia Felix. (see 4.) ...
Shechen
Shechen (she'kem), (heb. Sheh' Kem, A Shoulder Or Ridge). 1. A Town Of Central Palestine, In Samaria, Among The Moutains Of Ephraim (josh. Xx :7; Kings Xii :25), In The Narrow Valley Between The Mountains Of Ebal And Gerizim (comp. Judg. Ix: 7; Joseph. Antiq. Iv. 8, 44), And Consequently ...
Sheep
Sheep (shep), (heb. Say; Jts, Hone). It Appears To Be Occasionally Used As A Collective Term, Including Goats; Arab. Zain; Heb. T3; Keh Bes' A Lamb Under A Year Old; Ajil, The Adult Ram, But Originally Applied Also To The Males Of Other Ruminants, Such As Deer, Etc.; Female Or ...
Shekel
Shekel (shal). See Weights And Meas Ures. To Have Been A Concentrated Glowing Brightness. A Preternatural Splendor, An Effulgent Something, Was Appropriately Expressed By The Term 'glory ;' But Whether In Philosophical Strictness It Was Material Or Immaterial, It Is Probably Im Possible To Determine. A Luminous Object Of This ...
Shekinah Or Shechinah
Shekinah Or Shechinah (sh6'krna), (heb. R.4';, Shek-ce-naw', Resident), A Term Ap Plied By The Ancient Jews, Especially In The Chaldee Targums, To That Visible Symbol Of Of The Divine Glory Which Dwelt In The Tabernacle And Temple. The Word, Though Nowhere Met With In This Form In The Scriptures, Is ...
Shemaah
Shemaah (she-ma'ah), (heb. Shim Azu' , Rumor). A Benjamite, Father Of Ahiezer And Joash, Who Came To David At Ziklag (r Chron. Xii :3), B. C. Before 1°54. (slienfa-vali), (heb. Sheen All Yaw', Or Shem-ah-yaw' Hoo, Heard Of Jehovah). 1. A Prophet Who Was Sent To Rehoboam, King Of Judah, ...