Easton's Bible Dictionary

David was now sent for as a “cunning player on an harp” (1 Samuel 16:16, 18), to play before Saul when the evil spirit troubled ...

(3.) “Who is also called Paul” (q.v.), the circumcision name of the apostle, given to him, perhaps, in memory of King Saul (Acts ...

scarlet” (Isaiah 1:18), i.e., as scarlet robes “glaring and habitual.” Scarlet and crimson were the firmest of dyes, and thus no ...

SCEPTRE (Hebrews shebet = Gr. skeptron), properly a staff or rod. As a symbol of authority, the use of the sceptre originated i ...

11:24). In the time of the apostles, in consequence of the passing of what was called the Porcian law, no Roman citizen could be ...

SCRIP a small bag or wallet usually fastened to the girdle (1 Samuel 17:40); “a shepherd’s bag.” In the New Testament it is th ...

SEAL commonly a ring engraved with some device (Genesis 38:18, 25). Jezebel “wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with ...

SEA OF GLASS a figurative expression used in Revelation 4:6 and 15:2. According to the interpretation of some, “this calm, glas ...

Numbers 34:3, 12, etc.). The word “sea” is used symbolically in Isaiah 60:5, where it probably means the nations around the Medi ...

SEBAT the eleventh month of the Hebrew year, extending from the new moon of February to that of March (Zechariah 1:7). Assyrian ...

SEIR rough; hairy. (1.) A Horite; one of the “dukes” of Edom (Genesis 36:20-30). (2.) The name of a mountainous region occupie ...

between David and Saul mentioned in 1 Samuel 26:13. Each stood on an opposing cliff, with this deep chasm between. SELEUCIA the ...

Judah, would not submit to my yoke, I came up against him, and by force of arms and by the might of my power I took forty-six of ...

SEORIM barley, the chief of the forth priestly course (1 Chronicles 24:8). SEPHAR numbering, (Genesis 10:30), supposed by some ...

apparent discrepancy between this verse and Genesis 23:20, to read Acts 7:16 thus: “And they [i.e., our fathers] were carried ov ...

SERAPHIM mentioned in Isaiah 6:2, 3, 6, 7. This word means fiery ones, in allusion, as is supposed, to their burning love. They ...

character of the serpent is alluded to in Jacob’s blessing on Dan (Genesis 49:17; see Proverbs 30:18, 19; James 3:7; Jeremiah 8: ...

SERPENT, FIERY (LXX. “deadly,” Vulg. “burning”), Numbers 21:6, probably the naja haje of Egypt; some swift-springing, deadly sn ...

Leviticus 25:4; 1 Samuel 2:5; Psalm 12:6; 79:12; Proverbs 26:16; Isaiah 4:1; Matthew 18:21, 22; Luke 17:4). The feast of Passove ...

SHAASHGAZ servant of the beautiful, a chief eunuch in the second house of the harem of king Ahasuerus (Esther 2:14). SHABBETHAI ...