Easton's Bible Dictionary

SHALLUM retribution. (1.) The son of Jabesh, otherwise unknown. He “conspired against Zachariah, and smote him before the peopl ...

throne. Schrader thinks that this is probably the name of a king of Moab mentioned on an inscription of Tiglath-pileser as Salam ...

SHAPHAN a coney, a scribe or secretary of king Josiah (2 Kings 22:3-7). He consulted Huldah concerning the newly-discovered cop ...

SHAPHER brightness, one of the stations where Israel encamped in the wilderness (Numbers 33:23, 24). SHARAIM two gates (Joshua ...

SHEBA an oath, seven. (1.) Hebrews shebha, the son of Raamah (Genesis 10:7), whose descendants settled with those of Dedan on t ...

(4.) A Levite (Nehemiah 10:4). SHEBARIM breaks; ruins, a place near Ai (Joshua 7:5; R.V. marg., “the quarries”). SHEBNA tender ...

SHECHEM shoulder. (1.) The son of Hamor the Hivite (Genesis 33:19; 34). (2.) A descendant of Manasseh (Numbers 26:31; Joshua 1 ...

The site of Shechem is said to be of unrivalled beauty. Stanley says it is “the most beautiful, perhaps the only very beautiful, ...

3:9; 7:3; 9:19). Sheep-shearing was generally an occasion of great festivity (Genesis 31:19; 38:12, 13; 1 Samuel 25:4-8, 36; 2 S ...

(4.) Father of one of those who accused Jeremiah to Zedekiah (Jeremiah 37:3; 38:1). (5.) Father of a captain of the ward (Jeremi ...

(8.) A Levite (1 Chronicles 24:6). (9.) The eldest son of Obed-edom (1 Chronicles 26:4-8). (10.) A Levite (2 Chronicles 29:14). ...

SHEN a tooth, probably some conspicuous tooth-shaped rock or crag (1 Samuel 7:12), a place between which and Mizpeh Samuel set ...

and furnished with troughs. At night he brought the flock home to the fold, counting them as they passed under the rod at the do ...

SHETHAR a star, a prince at the court of Ahasuerus (Esther 1:14). SHETHAR-BOZNAI star of splendour, a Persian officer who vainl ...

SHIBBOLETH river, or an ear of corn. The tribes living on the east of Jordan, separated from their brethren on the west by the ...

SHIGGAION from the verb shagah, “to reel about through drink,” occurs in the title of Psalm 7. The plural form, shigionoth, is ...

time of St. Jerome till its re-discovery by Dr. Robinson in 1838 the very site was forgotten and unknown.” It is referred to by ...

(5.) A Simeonite (1 Chronicles 4:26, 27). (6.) A Reubenite (1 Chronicles 5:4). (7.) A Levite of the family of Gershon (1 Chronic ...

SHIMROM watchman, the fourth son of Issachar (Genesis 46:13; 1 Chronicles 7:1; R.V., correctly, “Shimron”). SHIMRON watch-post, ...

appear to have been wrecked before they set sail (1 Kings 22:48, 49; 2 Chronicles 20:35-37). In our Lord’s time fishermen’s boat ...