Bible Names N-Z

Serug in Easton's Bible Dictionary

branch, the father of Nahor (Gen. 11:20-23); called Saruch in Luke 3:35....

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Seth in Hitchcock's Bible Names

put; who puts; fixed...

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Shaasgaz in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(servant of the beautiful), the eunuch in the palace of Xerxes who had the custody of the women in the second house. Es 2:14...

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Seorim in Easton's Bible Dictionary

barley, the chief of the forth priestly course (1 Chr. 24:8)....

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Sergius Paulus in Smiths Bible Dictionary

was the proconsul of Cyprus when the apostle Paul visited that island with Barnabas on his first missionary tour. Ac 13:7 seq. (A.D. 44.) He is described as an intelligent man, truth- seeking, eager for information from all sources within his reach. Though at first admitting to his society Elymas the magician, he afterward, on becoming acquaint...

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Sennacherib in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(sin, the moon, increases brothers), was the son and successor of Sargon. [SARGON] His name in the original is read as Tsinakki-irib, the meaning of which, as given above indicates that he was not the first-born of his father. Sennacherib mounted the throne B.C. 702. His efforts were directed to crushing the revolt of Babylonia, which he inva...

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Sered in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

se'-red (ceredh): Son of Zebulun (Gen 46:14; Nu 26:26)....

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Sennacherib in Easton's Bible Dictionary

Sin (the god) sends many brothers, son of Sargon, whom he succeeded on the throne of Assyria (B.C. 705), in the 23rd year of Hezekiah. "Like the Persian Xerxes, he was weak and vainglorious, cowardly under reverse, and cruel and boastful in success." He first set himself to break up the powerful combination of princes who were in league ag...

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