Bible Names N-Z

So in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

The Egyptian king to whom Hoshea, Israel's last king, applied in the ninth year of his reign for help, when casting off the obligation to pay tribute to Assyria (2 Kings 17:4). So did not venture to encounter the Assyrian king Shalmaneser, but deserted his protege, as Egyptian kings often did (Isaiah 30:3; Isaiah 36:6). Israel was conquered a...

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Sopater in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

so'-pa-ter, sop'-a-ter (Sopatros): the Revised Version (British and American) the son of Pyrrhus; the King James Version omits. A man of Berea who is mentioned with some Thessalonians and others as accompanying Paul as far as Asia on his return to Jerusalem after his 3rd missionary journey (Acts 20:4). He is probably the same as the "Sosipater...

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Sisera in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Egypt. Ses-Ra, "servant of Ra"). (1.) The captain of Jabin's army (Judg. 4:2), which was routed and destroyed by the army of Barak on the plain of Esdraelon. After all was lost he fled to the settlement of Heber the Kenite in the plain of Zaanaim. Jael, Heber's wife, received him into her tent with apparent hospitality, and "gave him but...

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So in Hitchcock's Bible Names

a measure for grain; vail...

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Sopater in Naves Topical Bible

-A Christian of Berea Ac 20:4...

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Simri in Naves Topical Bible

-A Merarite 1Ch 26:10 -In R. V., called SHIMRI...

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Simri in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(vigilant), properly Shimri, son of Hosah, a Merarite Levite in the reign of David. 1Ch 26:10...

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Sisera in Hitchcock's Bible Names

that sees a horse or a swallow...

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Sisera in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Captain of the host of Jabin, the Canaanite king who reigned in HAZOR. (See JABIN; JAEL; BARAK; DEBORAH; KISHON.) Sisera resided in Harosheth of the Gentiles. frontHAROSHETH.) His doom was a standing reference in after times (1 Samuel 12:9; Psalm 83:9). The "curdled milk", still offered by Bedouin as a delicacy to guests, is called leben. ...

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Solomon in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

I. Early Life. Solomon was the son of David and Bath-sheba, and became the 3rd king of Israel. 1. Name and Meaning: He was so named by his mother (2 Sam 12:24, Qere; see TEXT AND MANUSCRIPTS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT; TEXT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT), but by the prophet Nathan, or by his father (Vulgate), he was called Jedidiah--"loved of Yahweh." The na...

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