- SHAASHGAZ servant of the beautiful, a chief eunuch in the second
house of the harem of king Ahasuerus (Esther 2:14). - SHABBETHAI Sabbath-born, a Levite who assisted in expounding the
law and investigating into the illegal marriages of the Jews (Ezra 10:15;
Nehemiah 8:7; 11:16). - SHADDAI the Omnipotent, the name of God in frequent use in the
Hebrew Scriptures, generally translated “the Almighty.” - SHADOW used in Colossians 2:17; Hebrews 8:5; 10:1 to denote the
typical relation of the Jewish to the Christian dispensation. - SHADRACH Aku’s command, the Chaldean name given to Hananiah,
one of the Hebrew youths whom Nebuchadnezzar carried captive to
Babylon (Daniel 1:6, 7; 3:12-30). He and his two companions refused to
bow down before the image which Nebuchadnezzar had set up on the
plains of Dura. Their conduct filled the king with the greatest fury, and he
commanded them to be cast into the burning fiery furnace. Here, amid the
fiery flames, they were miraculously preserved from harm. Over them the
fire had no power, “neither was a hair of their head singed, neither had the
smell of fire passed on them.” Thus Nebuchadnezzar learned the greatness
of the God of Israel. (See ABEDNEGO.) - SHALEM perfect, a place (probably the village of Salim) some 2 miles
east of Jacob’s well. There is an abundant supply of water, which may
have been the reason for Jacob’s settling at this place (Genesis 33:18-20).
The Revised Version translates this word, and reads, “Jacob came in peace
to the city of Shechem,” thus not regarding it as a proper name at all. - SHALIM, LAND OF land of foxes, a place apparently to the north-west
of Jerusalem (1 Samuel 9:4), perhaps in the neighbourhood of Shaalabbin in
Dan (Joshua 19:42). - SHALISHA, LAND OF probably the district of Baal-shalisha (2 Kings
4:42), lying about 12 miles north of Lydda (1 Samuel 9:4). - SHALLECHETH, THE GATE OF i.e., “the gate of casting out,” hence
supposed to be the refuse gate; one of the gates of the house of the Lord,
“by the causeway of the going up” i.e., the causeway rising up from the
Tyropoeon valley = valley of the cheesemakers (1 Chronicles 26:16).
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