Smith's Bible Dictionary

(preserved), the owner of the hill on which the city of Samaria was built. (1 Kings 16:24) (B.C. 917.) [Samaria] Shemida (wise), ...

•Son of Jehoshaphat. (2 Chronicles 21:2) (B.C. 887.) Shepherd In a nomadic state of society every man, from the sheikh down to t ...

Shephi (bareness), son of Shobal. of the sons of Seir. (1 Chronicles 1:40) Called also Shepho. (Genesis 36:23) Shepho (Genesis 3 ...

(Jehovah contends). •The scribe or royal secretary of David. (2 Samuel 20:26) He is called elsewhere Meraiah, (2 Samuel 8:17) Sh ...

Shihon (ruin), a town of Issachar, named only in (Joshua 19:19) Eusebius mentions it as then existing “near Mount Tabor.” Shihor ...

either to Solomon, whose name has a similar signification, or to the expected Messiah, who in (Isaiah 9:6) is expressly called t ...

The next meeting was very different. The king was now returning from his successful campaign. Just as he was crossing the Jordan ...

Shimrith (feminine of Shimri, vigilant), a Moabitess, mother of Jehozabad, one of the assassins of King Joash. (2 Chronicles 24: ...

in modern transport-ships, prepared far carrying troops, it is a common estimate to allow a toll and a half per man. On the whol ...

tight, it would be safe to assign seven points as the limit. Boats on the Sea Of Galilee .—In the narrative of the call of the d ...

impossible to say whether the ancient Jews were acquainted with its use. From the tangled thicket into which the stem of this tr ...

Shocho (2 Chronicles 28:18) one of the four varieties of the name Socoh. Shochoh (1 Samuel 17:1) same as Socoh. Shoco (2 Chronic ...

•Shebuel the son of Heman the minstrel. (1 Chronicles 25:20) Shuham (pit-digger) son of Dan and ancestor of the Shuhamites. (Num ...

Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.” (Genesis 20:1) It is also called Ethami. The wilderness of Shur was entered in the Israelites aft ...

with Saph or Sippai, tire Philistine giant, in the battle at, Gezer or Gob. (2 Samuel 21:18; 1 Chronicles 20:4) Sibboleth the Ep ...

his people together and attacked them. But the battle was his last. He and all his host were destroyed, and their district from ...

a subterraneous passage begins, through which the water flows, and through which a man may make his way, sometimes walking erect ...

afforded some supply of this metal. Silvers mixed with alloy is referred to in (Jeremiah 6:30) and a finer kind, either purer in ...

generally with Symeon who became bishop of Jerusalem after the death of James, A.D. 62. The former of these opinions rests on no ...

Simri (vigilant), properly Shimri, son of Hosah, a Merarite Levite in the reign of David. (1 Chronicles 26:10) Sin a city of Egy ...