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Seir in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("hairy, rugged".) 1. Named so from a Horite chief (Genesis 36:20). Or probably Seir was his title, not proper name, given from the rugged rocky nature of the country, or from its abounding in bushes, in contrast to Halak "the smooth mountain." Esau and the Edomite supplanted the previous occupants the Horites. frontHORITES.) Mount Seir is t...

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Sennacherib in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

se-nak'-er-ib (cancheribh; Sennachereim, Assyrian Sin- akhierba, "the moon-god Sin has increased the brothers"): Sennacherib (704-682 BC) ascended the throne of Assyria after the death of his father Sargon. Appreciating the fact that Babylon would be difficult to control, instead of endeavoring to conciliate the people he ignored them. The Bab...

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Sargon in Naves Topical Bible

-A king of Assyria Isa 20:1...

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Saul in Easton's Bible Dictionary

asked for. (1.) A king of Edom (Gen. 36:37, 38); called Shaul in 1 Chr. 1:48. (2.) The son of Kish (probably his only son, and a child of prayer, "asked for"), of the tribe of Benjamin, the first king of the Jewish nation. The singular providential circumstances connected with his election as king are recorded in 1 Sam. 8-10. His father'...

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Sceva in Hitchcock's Bible Names

disposed; prepared...

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Saul in Hitchcock's Bible Names

demanded; lent; ditch; death...

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Sargon in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(prince of the sea), one of the greatest of the Assyrian kings, is mentioned by name but once in Scripture-- Isa 20:1 He was the successor of Shalmaneser, and was Sennacherib's father and his reigned from B.C. 721 to 702, and seems to have been a usurper. He was undoubtedly a great and successful warrior. In his annals, which cover a space of ...

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Saul in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Hebrew SHAUL 1. An early king of Edom (Genesis 36:37-38). 2. Genesis 46:10. 3. 1 Chronicles 6:24. 4. First king of Israel. The names Kish and Ner, Nadab and Abi-nadab, Baal and Mephibosheth, recur in the genealogy in two generations. The family extends to Ezra's time. If the Zimri of 1 Chronicles 9:42 be the Zimri of 1 Kings 16 it is th...

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Seba in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

se'-ba (cebha'; Saba (Gen 10:7; 1 Ch 1:9); Greek ibid., but Codex Vaticanus has (Saban): 1. Forms of Name, and Parentage of Seba: The first son of Cush, his brothers being Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtecha. In Ps 72:10 and Isa 43:3 (where the Greek has Soene), Seba is mentioned with Egypt and Ethiopia, and must therefore have been a souther...

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Sargon in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(In the inscriptions, "Sarra-yukin" [the god] has appointed the king; also "Sarru-kinu," the legitimate king.) On the death of Shalmaneser (B.C. 723), one of the Assyrian generals established himself on the vacant throne, taking the name of "Sargon," after that of the famous monarch, the Sargon of Accad, founder of the first Semitic empir...

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