Easton's Bible Dictionary

su-Edina, i.e., “the border of the plain.” This name was sometimes shortened into Suti and Su, and has been regarded as = Shoa ( ...

SHOPHAN hidden, or hollow, a town east of Jordan (Numbers 32:35), built by the children of Gad. This word should probably be jo ...

distant across the plain, to tell Elisha, and to bring him with her to Shunem. There, in the “prophet’s chamber,” the dead child ...

in the battle of Gob (2 Samuel 21:18; R.V., “Sibbechai”). Called also Mebunnai (23:27). SIBMAH coolness; fragrance, a town in R ...

the surface, came upon a pavement of polished stones, formerly one of the streets of the city. Under this pavement they found a ...

Egypt”, i.e., in a north-easterly direction from Egypt, and enters the sea about 50 miles south-west of Gaza. SILAS wood, a pro ...

Many years ago (1880) a youth, while wading up the conduit by which the water enters the pool, accidentally discovered an inscri ...

the sanctuary in the wilderness (Exodus 26:19; 27:17; Numbers 7:13, 19; 10:2). There is no record of its having been found in Sy ...

SIMON the abbreviated form of Simeon. (1.) One of the twelve apostles, called the Canaanite (Matthew 10:4; Mark 3:18). This wor ...

SIMRI watchman, a Levite of the family of Merari (1 Chronicles 26:10). SIN is “any want of conformity unto or transgression of ...

of sin and condemnation, i.e., (1) a state of moral corruption, and (2) of guilt, as having judicially imputed to them the guilt ...

Egypt, “thus denoting its importance as a fortified city. It has been identified with the modern Tineh, “a miry place,” where it ...

11:1-3. The journey between Sinai and the southern boundary of the Promised Land (about 150 miles) at Kadesh was accomplished in ...

written in the fourth century, and is thus of about the same age as the Vatican codex; but while the latter wants the greater pa ...

days they began to murmur on account of the want of nourishment, as they had by this time consumed all the corn they had brought ...

feet he curled himself, he fell, he lay still; At her feet he curled himself, he fell; And where he curled himself, there he fel ...

SITNAH strife, the second of the two wells dug by Isaac, whose servants here contended with the Philistines (Genesis 26:21). It ...

The words in Proverbs 26:8, “As he that bindeth a stone in a sling,” etc. (Authorized Version), should rather, as in the Revised ...

25:13; Jeremiah 18:14). No doubt Herod Antipas, at his feasts in Tiberias, enjoyed also from this very source the modern luxury ...

has been concluded, from this and from other considerations, that the cities of the plain stood at the southern end of the Dead ...