Easton's Bible Dictionary

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

  • SHARAIM two gates (Joshua 15:36), more correctly Shaaraim (1 Samuel
    17:52), probably Tell Zakariya and Kefr Zakariya, in the valley of Elah, 3
    1/2 miles north-west of Socoh.

  • SHAREZER (God) protect the king!, a son of Sennacherib, king of
    Assyria. He and his brother Adrammelech murdered their father, and then
    fled into the land of Armenia (2 Kings 19:37).

  • SHARON, SARON a plain, a level tract extending from the
    Mediterranean to the hill country to the west of Jerusalem, about 30 miles
    long and from 8 to 15 miles broad, celebrated for its beauty and fertility (1
    Chronicles 27:29; Isaiah 33:9; 35:2; 65:10). The “rose of Sharon” is
    celebrated (Cant. 2:1). It is called Lasharon (the article la being here a part
    of the word) in Joshua 12:18.

  • SHAVEH-KIRIATHAIM plain of Kirja-thaim where Chedorlaomer
    defeated the Emims, the original inhabitants (Genesis 14:5). Now
    Kureiyat, north of Dibon, in the land of Moab.

  • SHAVEH, VALLEY OF valley of the plain the ancient name of the
    “king’s dale” (q.v.), or Kidron, on the north side of Jerusalem (Genesis
    14:17).

  • SHAVSHA (“Seraiah,” 2 Samuel 8:17; “Shisha,” 1 Kings 4:3), one of
    David’s secretaries (1 Chronicles 18:16).

  • SHEALTIEL asked for of God, father of Zerubbabel (Ezra 3:2, 8;
    Nehemiah 12:1).

  • SHEARING-HOUSE (2 Kings 10:12, 14; marg., “house of shepherds
    binding sheep.” R.V., “the shearing-house of the shepherds;” marg., “house
    of gathering”), some place between Samaria and Jezreel, where Jehu slew
    “two and forty men” of the royal family of Judah. The Hebrews word
    Beth-eked so rendered is supposed by some to be a proper name.

  • SHEAR-JASHUB a remnant shall escape or return (i.e., to God), a
    symbolical name which the prophet Isaiah gave to his son (Isaiah 7:3),
    perhaps his eldest son.

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