Bible Names N-Z

Segub in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Son of Hezron by Machir's daughter (1 Chronicles 2:21-22). 2. The Bethelite. Hiel's youngest son. Died when Hiel set up the gates of accursed Jericho, as Joshua foretold (Joshua 6:26; 1 Kings 16:34)....

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Semei in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

sem'-e-i: (1) (Codex Alexandrinus Semei; Codex Vaticanus Semeei): One of those who put away their "strange wives" (1 Esdras 9:33) = "Shimei" "of the sons of Hashum" in Ezr 10:33. (2) the King James Version = the Revised Version (British and American) "Semeias" (Additions to Esther 11:2). (3) the King James Version form of the Revised Version (B...

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Secundus in Easton's Bible Dictionary

second, a Christian of Thessalonica who accompanied Paul into Asia (Acts 20:4)....

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Semei in Naves Topical Bible

-An ancestor of Jesus Lu 3:26...

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Sargon in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

frontNAHUM.) From sar a "king", and gin or kin "established". In the inscriptions Sargina; founded Khorsabad (named Sarghun by Arabian geographers). frontHOSHEA.) Once "Sargon's" name in Isaiah 20:1, as having taken Ashdod by his general Tartan, caused a difficulty. He is not mentioned in the Scripture histories nor the classics; but Assyrian...

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Sargon in Hitchcock's Bible Names

who takes away protection...

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Sceva in Naves Topical Bible

-A charlatan Jewish "exorcist" at Ephesus Ac 19:13-17...

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Sceva in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

se'-va (Skeua): A Jew, a chief priest, resident in Ephesus, whose seven sons were exorcists (Acts 19:14 ff). Ewald regards the name as being Hebrew shekhabhyah. He was not an officiating priest, as there were only synagogues in Asia Minor. He may have belonged to a high-priestly family, or perhaps at one time he had been at the head of one of ...

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Seba in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(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, Ge 10:7; 1Ch 1:9 there are but three notices of the nation -- Ps 72:10; Isa 43:3; 45:14 These passages seem to show that Seba was a nation of Africa bordering on or included in Cush,...

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