Second
Second Epistle.—the Apostle's Allusion In His Former Epistle To The Second Coming Of Christ, And Especially His Statement In Ch. Iv. 15-18, Appear To Have Been Misunderstood By The Thessalonians, Or Wilfully Perverted By Some Among Them, So As To Favour The Notion That That Event Was Near At Hand. ...
Second Epistle
Second Epistle. Not Long After The Trans Mission Of The First Epistle, The Apostle Left Ephe Sus In Consequence Of The Uproar Excited Against Him By Demetrius The Silversmith, And Betook Himself To Troas (acts Xix. 23, Sq.) Here He Ex Pected To Meet Titus With Intelligence From Corinth Of ...
Sela
Sela V Thty, Sept. Dpviryouirpa ; Vulg. Coturnix, A. V. Quail) Occurs In Exod. Xvi. 13 ; Num. Xi. 31, 32 ; Ps. Cv. 4o. Quails Forrn A Sub Division Of The Tetraonida, Or Grouse Family, Being Distinguished From Partridges By Their Smaller Size, Finer Bill, Shorter Tail, And The ...
Seneh
Seneh (n)d) Occurs In The Well-known Pas Sage Of Exod. 2, Where The Angel Of The Lord Appeared Unto Moses In A Flaming Fire, Out Of The Midst Of A Bush (senelz), And The Bush Was Not Con Sumed. It Occurs Also In Vers. 3 And 4, And In Deut. ...
Seorah
Seorah (ini/v, Said To Be Derived From Hair ;' A. V. Barlg) Derives Its Name In Liel;rew, According To Lexicographers, From Its Long Awns, Or Beards, As They Are Alko Called, Somewhat Resembling Hair. This Grain Is Mentioned In Scrip Ture As Cultivated And Used In Egypt (exod. Ix. 31), ...
Seraphs
Seraphs, The Plural Ot The Word Rrt Saraph, Burning, Or Fiery :' Celestial Beings Described In Is. Vi. Z-6 As An Order Of Angels Or Ministers Of God Who Stand Around His Throne, Having Each Six Wings, And Also Hands And Feet, And Praising God With Their Voices. They Were ...
Seto
(seto E7t1 At)tel, Xi. 18). Tuesday, 12th Of Nisan (april 4).—this Un Equalled Dignity And Authority In The Subjects And Manner Of His Teaching Was Another Mark Of His Messiahship. It Had Been Indeed Observed By His Hearers From The Beginning Of His Career (mark I. 22) ; But Is ...
Shaked Iro
Shaked (iro Occurs In Several Passages Ot Scripture, And Is Generally Acknowledged To Mean The Almond (gen. Xliii. ; Exod. Xxv. 33, 34 ; Xxxvii. ; Num. Xvii. 8 ; Eccles. Xii. 5, And In Jer. It). In The Article Luz We Have Already Stated That From The Similarity Of ...
Shalach Tw
Shalach (tw, Lev. Xi. 17 ; Deut. Xiv. 17), In Common With The Usual Greek Version Kara Pdkrns, Is Considered To Have Reference To Darting, Rushing, Or Stooping Like A Falcon ; And Accordingly Has Been Variously Applied To The Eagle, The Jer Falcon, The Gannet, The Great Gull, And ...
Shalmaneser
Shalmaneser, King Of Assyria [assvitm]. Shamgar (we; Sept. Zaaeydp), Son Of Anath, And Third Judge Of Israel. - It Is Not Known Whether The Only Exploit Recorded Of Him Was That By Which His Authority Was Acquired. It Is Said That He Slew Of The Philistines 600 Men With An ...
Shammah
Shammah (rillt.;4, Astonishment ; /outdo), One Of The Three Chief Of The Thirty Champions Of David. The Exploit By Which He Obtained This High Distinction, As Described In 2 Sam. Xxiii. R, 12, Is Manifestly The Same As That Which, In Chron. Xi. 1244, Is Ascribed To David Himself, Assisted ...
Sharezer
Sharezer Persic, Prince Of Fire ; Sept. Zapacrdp), A Son Of Sennacherib, One Of Those Who Slew His Father (2 Kings Xix. 37 ; Is. :cowl 38). Another Person Of This Name Occurs In Zech. Vii. 2.—j. K. Sharon (11-dri With The Art. The Plain ;' Zapthv ; In Is. ...
Shebo
Shebo Ozeo ; Sept. Clxdrns ; Vulg. Achates), A Precious Or Rather Ornamental Stone, Which Was One Of Those In The Pectoral Of The High-priest (exod. Xxviii. 19 ; Xxxix. 12). It Seems Not To Have Been Questioned That Some Stone Of The Agate Kind Is Intended. This Stone Is ...
Shechem
Shechem (ine ; Sept. Lux4u, Also Tec Miktua), A Town Of Central Palestine, In Samaria, Among The Mountains Of Ephraim (josh. Ioc. 7 I 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 Within ...
Sheep
Sheep (r&, Tty, With The Varying Forms I'm, Lst)y, And My, The Latter Generallyused As A Collective Term, Including Goats ; Arab. Zain ; A Lamb Under A Year Old ; Ayil, The Adult Ram, But Origi Nally Applied Also To The Males Of Other Ruminants, Such As Deer, Etc. ...
Shekel
Shekel]. Now, At The Time Of Augustus The Attic Tetradrachm Had Fallen So As To Be Equal To The Phcenician Didrachm, And To Four Denarii Of The Weight Of That Period, And The Weights Of The Shekel And Its Half Are The Same As Those Of The Debased Attic Tetradrachm ...
Shekinah
Shekinah Or Shechinah (m'v4)), A Term Applied By The Ancient Jews, Especially In The Chaldee Targums, To That Visible Symbol Of The Divine Glory Which Dwelt In The Tabernacle And Temple. The Word, Though Nowhere Met With In This Form In The Scriptures, Is A Direct Derivative From The Hebrew ...
Shelomith
Shelomith (roni50, The Name Of Several Persons Male (1 Chron. Xxiii. Is ; Xxiii. 9 ; Xxvi. 25 ; Ezra Viii. To) And Female (lev. Xxiv. ; Chron. 19). Shem (dt:i, Name ; Sept. Z7j,u), One Of The Three Sons Of Noah (gen. V. 32), From Whom Descended The Nations ...
Shesh
Shesh (ev), Also Sheshi, Translated Fine Linen In The A. V., Occurs Twenty-eight Times In Exodus, Once In Genesis, Once In Proverbs, And Three Times In Ezekiel. Considerable Doubts Have, However, Always Been Entertained Respecting The True Meaning Of The Word ; Some Have Thought It Signified Fine Wool, Others ...
Shew Bread
Shew-bread. In The Outer Apartment Of The Tabernacle, On The Right Hand, Or North Side, Stood A Table, Made Of Acacia (shittim) Wood, Two Cubits Long, One Broad, And One And A Half High, And Covered With Laminm Of Gold. The Top Of The Leaf Of This Table Was Encircled ...
Shihor
Shihor And Sihor Oinv, Dark ' Or Turbid,' From The Root Imi; Dolicrros ; Jlievizes Turbidus ; Gpta ; Szhor ; Iherapoxii ; Nllus; Rnt7o Aqua Turbidez), One Of The Names Given To The Rivet Nile, Probably Arising From Its Dark And Turbid Waters, Like The Greek Maar (gesen. Thesaurus, ...
Ship
Ship. In Few Things Is There Greater Danger Of Modern Associations Misleading The Reader Of The Scriptures Than In Regard To The Subject Of The Pre Sent Article. To An Englishman A Ship Calls Up The Idea Of The Wooden Walls Of Old England,' Which Have So Long Withstood The ...
Shishak
Shishak (n)t,i; Sept. Zovaalcitz), A King Of Egypt Contemporary With Jeroboam, To Whom He Gave An Asylum When He Fled From Solomon (t Kings Xi. 4o). This Was Indicative Of His Politic Disposition To Encourage The Weakening Of The Neighbouring Kingdom, The Growth Of Which Under David And Solomon Was ...
Shittah
Shittah Intw.) And Sitittim (ow) Shittim (1:311:oltirl, The Acacias ; Sept. Zan, Occur In Several Passages Of Exodus, And Indicate The Kind Of Wood Which Was Employed In Making Various Parts Of The Tabernacle While The Israelites Were Wandering In The Wilderness. It Is Mentioned Also As Forming Part Of ...
Shoham
Shoham (drift!), A Precious Stone Mentioned In Gen. Ii. 12 ; Exod. Xxviii. 9 ; Xxxv. 9-27 ; Job Xxviii. ; Ezek. X.xviii. 13. That It Is Really Un Known Is Evinced By The Variety Of Opinions Which Have Been Hazarded Concerning It In The Two Last Texts The Sept. ...
Shual
Shu'al. 5rat,.., And Jackal (?), Are Both Somewhat Arbitrarily Interpreted By The Word Fox ; ' Although That Denomination Is Not Uniformly Em Ployed In Different Texts (judg. Xv. 4; Neh. Iv. 3 ; Xi. 27 ; Ps. Ro ; Cant. Ii. 15 ; Lam. V. 18 ; Ezek. Xiii. ...
Shuppim
Shuppim Is Mentioned (1) In Chron. 12 (maci; Zan-olv ; Alex. Ecupet/a ; Sepham) As One Of The Two Children Of Ir.' If, As Is Likely, This Ir Be The Same As The Iri' Of Ver. 7, The Son Of Bela, Shuppim Was The Great-grandson Of The Patriarch Benjamin. There ...
Shushan
Shushan (iv), Also Shoshannah ; Sept. Kpipop), Occurs In Several Passages Of The 0 T., And Is Translated Lily In The A. V. The Word Has Been Variously Interpreted By Translators, Being By Some Thought To Be The Rose, By Others The Violet Or Convallaria, A Jasmine, Or Some One ...
Siddim
Siddim, Tlie Vale Of (nitvrt Png ; Cpdpa7s '17 Caurch, And Koinar ; Vallis Silifestris). In The Article Salt Sea The Vale Of Siddim Has Been Noticed. In This Place It May Be Well To Group Together The Leading Statements Made Re Garding It In Scripture History, And To Combine ...
Sidon Zidon
Zidon, Sidon (phcen. Rly ; Heb. Irn ; Gr. .etschv; The Present Ls...0, Saida), The Name Of A Phcenician City, Probably Derived From 11y, To Hunt, To Fish, And Bestowed Upon It For The Abund Ance Of The Fish Found In Its Neighbourhood (urbs . Quam A Piscium Ubertate Sidona ...
Sigismund Jakob Baumgarten
Baumgarten, Sigismund Jakob, D.d., Was Born At Wollmirstadt 14th March 1706. He Was Educated At Halle, First In The Orphan House, Afterwards At The University. After Passing Through Various Subordinate Offices He Became Professor Of Theology In That University In T 743. He Was The Most Famous Theological Professor Of ...
Siiiloh
Siiiloh (riny), The Epithet Applied, In The Prophetic Benediction Of Jacob On His Death-bed (gen. Xlix. I 0), To The Personage To Whom The Gathering Of The Nations Should Be,' And Which Has Ever Been Regarded By Christians And By The Ancient Jews As A Denomination Of The Messiah. The ...
Silk
Silk. Whether This Fabric Was Known To The Hebrews Is Extremely Doubtful. There Is No Word In Hebrew Answering To It, For The Hebrew Words Translated Silk In The A. V., Vho (ezek. Xvi. Ro, Ir3), And Lt./ (prov. Xxxi. 22), Cannot Be Proved To Be 1 Proper Y So ...
Siloah
Siloah. (smoam.] Siloam (.7:1xiocii.e), Or Snitomr 0:150. The Name Siloah Or Siloam Is Found Only Three Times In Scripture As Applied To Water : Once In Isaiah (viii. 6), Who Speaks Of It As Running Water ; Again, As A Pool, In Neh. 15 ; And Lastly, Also As A ...
Simeon Cara
Cara, Simeon, B. Chelbo, Also Called R. Simeon Ha-darsiian, Who Received The Former Name From His Reading (nip) In The Synagogue The Lesson On The Sabbath, And The Latter From His Col Lecting And Explaining ()t711) The Midrashim, Was Brother Of The Celebrated Commentator Menachem B. Chelbo, And Flourished In ...
Simeon Or Simon
Simeon Or Simon Aipte, Heard), Was A Native Of Bethsaida In Galilee (john I. 45), And Was The Son Of A Certain Jonas, Whence He Is Named On One Occasion In The Gospel History Simon Barjona, That Is, Son Of Jona (matt. Xvi. 17). His Place Of Residence Was Capemaum ...
Simon Bar Cochab
Simon Bar-cochab. —the Coinage Of Simon Bar-cochab Consists Chiefly Of Re-struck A'enariz; Which, Weighing So Nearly A Quarter Of A Shekel, Could Be Used Without Any Difficulty In The Coinage. The Conjecture That This Leader Bore The Name Of Simon' Rests Only On The Authority Of The Coins, For All ...
Simonis
Simonis, Conrector Of The Gymnasium, And Professor Of Church History And Antiquities In The University Of Halle, Was Born Loth Feb. 1698, And Died 2d Jan. 1768. He Was An Excellent Hebraist. Besides An Admirable Edition Of The He Brew Text Of The O. T., Often Reprinted, He Issued An ...
Sinapi
Sinapi (zivart), Translated Mustard Tree' In The A. V. Of The N. T., Has Engaged The Attention Of Many Commentators, Great Difficulty Having Been Experienced In Finding A Plant With The Requisite Characteristics. The Subject Was Investigated By The Present Writer In A Paper Read Before The Royal Asiatic Society ...
Sinim
Sinim (n4.;4i? ; Sept. 1/73 Ilepaidv), A People Whose Country, Land Of Sinim,' Is Mentioned Only In Is. Xlix. 12, Where The Context Implies A Remote Region, Situated In The Eastern Or Southern Extremity Of The Earth. Many Biblical Geographers Think This May Possibly Denote The Sinese Or Chinese, Whose ...
Sir Richard Ellys
Ellys, Sir Richard, Bart., Of Wyham, Lincolnshire, A Gentleman Of Scholarly Habits And Extensive Intercourse With The Learned Men Of His Day. He Was The Great-grandson Of The Illustrious Hampden. From His Intimacy With Dutch Literati He Is Supposed To Have Studied In Holland. The Wetsteins Dedicated To Him Their ...
Sirpad
Sirpad (15711?) Is Mentioned Only Once By Isaiah (1v. 13) : And Instead Of The'brier (sirpaa') Shall Come Up The Myrtle.' Though This Has Ge Nerally Been Considered A Thorny And Prickly Plant, It Does Not Follow From The Context That Such A Plant Is Necessarily Meant. It Would Be ...
Smith
Smith (c;-0-0, A Workman In Stone, Wood, Or Metal, Like The Latin Faber, But Sometimes More Accurately Defined By What Follows, As T-im Chrr, A. Workman In Iron, A Smith ; Sept. Tektwy, Tektwv At377' Pou, Xax1c€6 S, Texvirns ; Vulg. Faber And Faber Ferrarius (i Sam. Xiii. 19 ; ...
Smyrna
Smyrna (2dut;pva), A Celebrated Commercial City Of Ionia (ptolem. V. 2), Situated Near The Bot Tom Of That Gulf Of The ./egean Sea Which Received Its Name From It (mela, 17. 3), At The Mouth Of The Small River Meles, And 32o Stades North Of Ephesus (strabo, Xv. P. 632). ...
Sodom
Sodom (n'm ; Is6sodua; Sodoma), The Chief City Of The Pentapoiis, Situated In The Valley Of The Jordan. There Are Various Opinions As To The Meaning Of The Word Sodom. Primeval Names Of Places Were Generally Descriptive ; And It Might Throw Some Light On The Site Of This Ancient ...
Soil
Soil, Etc.—the Geological Characters Of The Soil In Palestine Have Never Been Satisfactorily Stated ; But The Different Epithets Of Description Which Travellers Employ, Enable Us To Know That It Differs Considerably, Both In Its Appearance And Character, In Different Parts Of The Land ; But Wherever Soil Of Any ...
Solomon
Solomon Pad.* ; Sept. Zanco,u6v). [what Is Known Of The Early History Of Solomon May Be Stated In A Few Sentences. The Youngest Son Of David And Bathsheba (r Chron. 5r), He Seems To Have Been From His Birth The Object Of His Father's Special Affection. By This Time The ...
Solomon B Jemidaii Ibn
Ibn Gei3irol Or Gabirol, Solomon B. Jemidaii, Also Called By The Jews Solomon The -spaniard, %limn Nthv, The Hymnologist 51.t2 1:0-i'll7m, And Rashbag .1"1771, From The Initials Of Erl131 Rithr, -1, By The Arabians Abu D4jub Su Leiman 1bn Yachja, And By The Christian School Men Avicebral, Avicebron, Etc., A ...
Solomon B Voel Dubno
Dubno, Solomon B. Voel. This Distin Guished Poet, Geographer, Grammarian, And Com Mentator Was Born October 12, 173s, At Dubno, Whence He Derived His Name. Attracted By The Great Reformation In Judwism And In Hebrew Literature Which Had Just Then Commenced In Ger Many, Under The Leadership Of The Immortal ...
Solomons Song
Solomon's Song, One Of The Three Canon Ical Volumes—the Other Two Being Proverbs And Ecclesstes—which Have Come Down To Us By Tra Dition As The Production Of The Son Of David. The Title Of The Book Ana' Its Signification.— The Title Of This Book In The Hebrew Is N+-own Which ...
South
South. The Country, Or Quarter Of The Heavens, Which The Shemite, Standing With His Face To The East, Supposes To Be On His Right Hand. It Is De Noted By Seven Hebrew Words (1. Z.?? ; 2. Nii7; 3. ; 4. ; 5. 17.r.:1; 6' -91.n 7. Nearly All Of ...
Spencer
Spencer, John, D.d., A Learned English Divine, Was Born In Kent, 1630, And Graduated At Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Where He Took Successively The Deg' Ees Of B.a. (1652), B.d. (1659), And D.d. (1663), And Of Which He Became I Fellow. And Afterwards Master. In 1677 He Was Made Dean ...
Spices
Spices. This Word, Which Occurs Very Lie Quently In The A. V., Has Usually Been Consideled To Indicate Several Of The Aromatic Substances To Which The Same General Name Is Applied In The Present Day. The Hebrew Words So Translated Are Necoth, Bosem, And Sammtm, The Corresponding Greek Being Tipcoi24. ...
Spiritual Gifts
Spiritual Gifts (rarvemearexcl Suppl. Xa Picraara), A Phrase Used To Denote Those Endow Ments Which Were Conferred On Persons In The Primitive Church, And Which Were Manifested In Acts And Utterances Of A Supernatural Kind. The Phrase Is Talcen From Cor. Xii. 1, Where The Words Rept Mit, Zrpeimartav Are ...
Spurious Acts Of Christ
Acts Of Christ, Spurious. Several Sayings Attributed To Our Lord, And Alleged To Be Handed Down By Tradition, May Be Included Under This Head, As They Are Supposed By Some Learned Men To Have Been Derived From Histories Which Are No Longer In Existence. As Explanatory Of Our Mean Ing ...
Spurious Acts Of The
Acts Of The Apostles, Spurious. Of These Several Are Extant, Others Are Lost, Or Only Fragments Of Them Are Come Down To Us. Of The Following We Know Little More Than That They Once Existed. They Are Here Arranged Chro Nologically :—the Preaching Of Peter, Referred To By Origen In ...
Spurious Apocrypha Epistles
Epistles, Spurious [apocrypha]. Of These Many Are Lost, But There Are Several Still Extant : The Principal Are— The Epistle Of Paul To The Laodiceans. The Third Epistle Of Pau{ To The Corinthians. The Epistle Of Peter To James. The Epistles Of Paul And Seneca. There Was An Epistle To ...
Spurious Revelations
Revelations, Spurious [apocrvmal. The Apocalyptic Character, Which Is Occupied In Describing The Future Splendour Of The Messianic Kingdom And Its Historical Relations, Presents Itself For The First Time In The Book Of Daniel, Which Is Thus Characteristically Distinguished From The Former Prophetical Books. In The Only Prophetical Book Of The ...
Standards
Standards. Standards And Ensigns Are To Be Regarded As Efficient Instruments For Maintaining The Ranks And Files Of Bodies Of Troops ; And In Num. Ii. 2 They Are Particularly Noticed, The Israel Ites Being Not Only Enjoined To Encamp Each By The Standard Of His Tribe And The Ensign ...
Standing
Standing In Public Prayer Is Still The Practice Of The Jews. This Posture Was Adopted From The Synagogue By The Primitive Christians ; And Is Still Maintained By The Oriental Churches. This Ap Pears, From Their Monuments, To Have Been The Cus Tom Also Among The Ancient Persians And Egyptians, ...
Star In The East
Star In The East. Matthew (ch. Ii. T, Seq.) Relates That At The Time Of The Birth Of Our Lord There Came Wise Men (magi) From The East To Jerusalem, To Inquire After The Newly-born King Of The Jews, In Order That They Might Offer Him Presents And Worship Him. ...
Stater
Stater (crzanip; Stater ; A. V. 'a Piece Of Money,' Margin Stater'). The Word Stater, From I'arni.4e, Means A Coin Of A Certain Weight, And Hence A Standard, And Was A Term Applied By The Greeks To Coins Of Gold, Elec Trum, And Silver. The Principal Earlier Gold Stateis Were ...
Stephanas
Stepha.nas (erecloapits), A Disciple At Corinth, Whose Household Paul Baptized (1 Cor, 16), Being The First Converted To Christianity In Achaia (i Cor. Xvi. 15). From The Last Of These Texts It Would Appear That Stephanas And His Family, In The Most Exemplary Manner, Addicted Themselves To The Ministry Of ...
Stephens
Stephens, More Correctly Stephen (eti Enne), The Family Name Of An Illustrious Succession Of Learned Printers, Of Whom, However, We Have To Notice Specially Here Only Robert. He Was The Son Of Henri Etienne (henricus Stephanus), The Printer Of The Quineuplex Psalterium Of Le Fevre D'estaples, Paris 1509, 1513, And ...