Seba
(pl. Sebaim ; in Authorized Version incorrectly rendered Sabeans) heads the list of the sons of
Cush. Besides the mention of Seba in the lists of the pens of Cush, (Genesis 10:7; 1 Chronicles
1:9) there are but three notices of the nation— (Psalms 72:10; Isaiah 43:3; 45:14) These passages
seem to show that Seba was a nation of Africa bordering on or included in Cush, and in Solomon’s
time independent and of political importance. It may perhaps be identified with the island of Meroe.
Josephus says that Saba was the ancient name of the Ethiopian island and city of Meroe, but he
writes Seba, in the notice of the Noachian settlements, Sabas. The island of Meroe lay between the
Astaboras, the Atbara, the most northern tributary of the Nile, and the Astapus, the Bahr el-Azrak,
“Blue River,” the eastern of its two great confluents.
Sebat
(a rod). [Month]
Secacah, Or Secacah
(thicket), one of the six cities of Judah which were situated in the Midbar (“wilderness”), that
is, the tract bordering on the Dead Sea. (Joshua 15:61) Its portion is not known.
Sechu
(the watch-tower), a place mentioned once only— (1 Samuel 19:22)—apparently as lying on
the route between Saul’s residence, Gibeah, and Ramah (Ramathaim-zophim), that of Samuel. It
was notorious for “the great well” (or rather cistern) which it contained. Assuming that Saul started
from Gibeah (Tuleil el-Ful), and that Neby Samwil is Ramah, then Bir Nebolla (the well of Neballa)
just south of Beeroth, alleged by modern traveller to contain a large pit would be in a suitable
position for the great well of Sechu.
Secundus
(fortunate), a Thessalonian Christian. (Acts 20:4) (A.D. 55.) Seer, [Prophet]
Segub
(elevated).
•The youngest son of Hiel the Hethelite who rebuilt Jericho. (1 Kings 18:34) (B.C. about 910.)
•Son of Hezron. (1 Chronicles 2:21,28) (B.C. about 1682.)
Seir
(hairy, Shaggy),
•We have both “land of Seir,” (Genesis 32:3; 36:50) and “Mount Seir.” (Genesis 14:6) It is the
original name of the mountain range extending along the east side of the valley of Arabah, from
the Dead Sea to the Elanitic, Golf. The Horites appear to have been the chief of the aboriginal
inhabitants, (Genesis 36:20) but it was ever afterward the possession of the Edomites, the
descendants of Esau. The Mount Seir of the: Bible extended much farther south than the modern
province, as is shown by the words of (2:1-8) It had the Arabah on the west, vs. 1 and 8; it extended
as far south as the head of the Gulf of Akabah, ver. 8; its eastern border ran along the base of the
mountain range where the plateau of Arabia begins. Its northern, order is not so accurately
determined. There is a line of “naked” white hills or cliffs which run across the great valley about
eight miles south of the Dead Sea, the highest eminence being Mount Hor, which is 4800 feet
high.
•Mount Seir, an entirely different place from the foregoing; one of the landmarks on the north
boundary of the territory of Judah. (Joshua 15:10) only. It lay westward of Kirjath-jearim, and
between it and Beth-shemesh. If Kuriel el-Enab be the former and Ain-shems the latter of these
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