Bible Names, Places, Numbers, Symbols, and Types
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If a name or place has more than one meaning attached to it, or has more than one individual or place attached to it, each variant will be list as follows (2) (3), etc.
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| Sabtah | Breaking Through, Encirclement; Son of Cush (Genesis 10:7) |
| Sabteca | Beating, Encircle Depression; Son of Cush (Genesis 10:7) |
| Salah | Mission; Sending; A son of Arpachshad; Grandson of Shem; |
Sarah |
THE Princess; Type of Sarah Cov.; Mother of many nations; appears four times in the Greek (1 Pet. 3:6; Hebs 11:11; Romans 9:9 & 4:19) |
Sarai |
MY Princess; name change a step from local to global; The wife and half-sister of Abraham; |
Seas |
Type of restless humanity |
| Seba | Drunkard; Son of Cush; Grandson of Ham (Genesis 10:7) |
| Sephar | Census, Counting; A town or location mentioned in reference to the boundary of the sons of Joktan, son of Eber (Genesis 10:30). |
| Serpant | Hebrew Nachash, to Shine |
| Serug | Branch; Layer; Twining; Son of Reu, Grandson of Peleg. Father of Nahor. |
| Seth | Compensation; 3rd son or Adam and Eve; Father of Enos |
Seven |
Fullness, Completeness; represents what is divinely perfect; God’s Holy Spirit + 6=7= Holy Scriptures |
Seven (7.5) |
Cubit measurement of each of 48 boards of Tabernacle |
| Shaken | Type of Instability (See moved) |
| Sheba (spelled with the Hebrew aleph) | Perhaps Man, Drunk, Captive, Splinter, Seventh, oath; Son of Raamah; Grandson of Cush (Genesis 10:7); (2) Son of Joktan; Grandson of Eber (Genesis 10:28); (3) Son of Jokstan; Son of Abraham through Keturah (Genesis 25:2) (4) a region from which the queen journeyed to King Solomon (1 Kings 10:1, located in southern Arabia, in Yemen. A wealthy nation,with colonies along the western coast of Arabia and across the Red Sea in Ethiopia and modern Eritrea. They were camel caravan traders in spices, frankincense, myrrh, ivory and gold. |
| Sheba (spelled with the Hebrew ayin) | Seventh, Oath; a A town in Simeon, second son of Jacob and Leah (Joshua 19:2); (2) A Benjaminite, second son of Jacob and Rachel (2 Samuel 20:1); (3) A Gadite, first son of Jacob and Zilpah (1 Chronicles 5:13) |
| Shechem | Shoulder, Personal Interest; A city north of Bethel and Shiloh, on the high road going from Jerusalem to the northern districts (Judges 21:19). It was in the hill country of Ephraim (Joshua 20:7), immediately below Mount Gerizim (Judges 9:6-7). Shechem was a commercial center due to its position in the middle of vital trade routes through the region. It traded in local grapes, olives, wheat, livestock and pottery; A place where Abram sojourned (Genesis 12:6); First place Abram built an altar; Jacob built an altar there; Joshua erected a commemorative pillar known as the "stone of witness"; Jacob lived here upon his return to Canaan (Genesis 33:19); He bought the land from Hamor the Hivite, father of Shechem. After Shechem took Dinah by force, her brothers Simeon and Levi destroyed and looted the city (Genesis 34) Jacob took away their rights as sons two and three, Judah replaces them (Genesis 49:5-7); Moses to assemble the Israelites on the mountains of Ebal and Gerizim, overlooking Shechem, to declare the "blessings and curses" with which they will be blessed for obedience to God's law and cursed for disobedience to it (Deuteronomy 11:29); Also called Sichem; an Israelite city in the tribal area of Ephraim; The first capital of the Kingdom of Israel; An important area for the Samaritans, traditional says it is the location of "Jacob's well,"; (2) Son of Hamor (see above) (3) A Son of Gilead through Manasseh (Numbers 36:31); (4) A son of Shemida (1 Chronicles 7:19). |
| Shelah I | Missionary, Emissary Sent Out, Branch or Javelin; A son of Arpachshad; Ancestor of Christ; (Genesis 10:24); Nehemiah mentions a Pool of Shelah (Nehemiah 3:15); From the Hebrew shalah to send. |
| Shelah II | Extracted, Prosperity, Request, Petition; From the Hebrew shala means to extract; A son of Judah (Genesis 38:5), the father of the Shelanites (Numbers 26:20). (2) The town of Shiloh, which is spelled alternatively Shelah. |
| Sheleph | Drawn Out; Son of Joktan, Grandson of Eber. |
| Shem | Name, Fame, Renown; oldest or middle son of Noah who was 500 years at his birth; Shem was 100 years old at the time of the flood; died 35 years after Abraham's death; descendants in West Asia; Sons of Shem: Elam = Arabs; Asshur =Assyria; Arphaxed = Jews (born 2 years after the flood); Lud = Lydians; Aram = Aramaic, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Syria |
| Shemeber | Renown Of The Protector, King Shemeber of Zeboiim known For Being Strong; fought against king Chedorlaomer in the War of Four Against Five Kings (Genesis 14:2). |
| Siddim | Furrows, Divisions, Fields, Demons, To be straight or level; A place mentioned in Genesis 14:3, the scene of the encounter between Chedorlaomer and the five confederate kings of the plain of the Dead Sea; A low or sunken tract of land; A section of the Arabah; It was full of Bituman pits; At the present day there are no bitumen-pits in the plains around the Dead Sea, from masses of bitumen thrown to the surface, the wells of bitumen in the bed of the sea towards its southern end. |
| Shinab | Splendour of the father, Red Ground, Earth; the king of Adamah, in the valley of Siddim, who with his confederates was conquered by Chedorlaomer (Genesis 14:2); |
| Shinar | Cast Out A Breach, That What Is Young (or Shakes, Growls),Tooth Town, City Of Wit; Region in southern Mesopotamia where Nimrod's kingdom began; Location of the tower of Babel (Genesis 11:2); Maybe called Sumer; A destination of exiled Judahites (Daniel 1:2); Jehovah promised to bring his people home from Shinar (Isaiah 11:11); the prophet Zechariah foresaw a temple dedicated to Wickedness in Shinar (Zechariah 5:11); Name for Babylonia; |
| Sidon | Fishery, Hunting Ground; Son of Canaan, Son of Ham (Genesis 10:15); (2) an ancient and wealthy city of Phoenicia, on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea, less than 20 miles north of Tyre; a boundary of the Canaanities (Genesis 10:19); Oppressed the Israelites (Judges 10:12); Worshiped Ashtoreth; Jesus and Paul visited Sidon (Matthew 15:21, Acts 27:3) (See Sidon) |
| Sin | Thorn or Clay; Storage Facility; A city, the stronghold of Egypt (Ezekiel 30:15-16); It is connected with Pelusium (Clayey or Muddy Town) at the mouth of the Nile.; It may have been set in the swamps and morasses on the most easterly estuary of the Nile. It was a perpetual battlefield between the Egyptians and their enemies. (2) A Wilderness which lies between either Wady Feiran, or the mouth of Wady es-Sheikh and the coast of the Gulf of Suez, west of Sinai. It is a undulating waste, covered in white gravelly soil and sand. (Exodus 16:1, 17:1) |
| Sinai | Thorn or Clay; Storage Facility; (Exodus 19:11) A mountain in the peninsula forming a a triangle, it is shut in on two sides by the gulfs of Aklabah and Suez, and on the third by the desert of Tih.On the north and west a group of peaks having projecting buttresses of ruddy sandstone, but the main body and all the loftiest peaks are granite, and exhibit a variety of coloring red, yellow, purple, and green. A mountain summit overlooking the place where the people stood and a space sufficient, adjacent to the mountain, for a multitude to stand and behold the phenomena on the summit. Identification is not know. Associated with the Mountain of Horeb. (Exodus 19:1) (See Sinai) |
| Sinim | Thorn or Clay; Storage Facility; May be related to the Sinites; It is thought that (Isaiah 49:12) is connected with China. |
| Sinites | Thorn or Clay; Storage Facility; From Sini, son of Canaan, grandson Ham (Genesis 10:17) Peoples of the northern part of the Lebanon district. Jerome mentions a ruined city, Sin, near Arka, at the foot of Lebanon. They seem not to be connected with the Egyptian city of Sin. (See Sinites) |
| Sivan | Thorn or Clay; Storage Facility. (Esther 8:9) 3rd Month, June. |
Six |
Represents goodly men in evil times, saints in present times; Symbol for imperfection, men of old moved by Holy spirit are represented in 6 knaps and flowers in each of the three arms of the candlestick |
| Sodom | Flaming, Burnt, Furrows, Wet Fields, Demons, Breasts,Their Assembly; A city on the fertile Jordan River plain on the North side of the Salt Sea; (Genesis 19) probably situated in the Valley of Siddim (Genesis 14:3). Nearby cities included Gomorrah, Zeboiim, and Admah. Sidon was destroyed because though wealthy, they did not help the poor. (Ezekiel 16:49); Jewish commentary speculate that Sidon's true sin is the abominable mistreatment of strangers. |
| Spilled Blood | Type of Death |
| Square | The four angles and four sides equal perfection. Examples: The altars in the tabernacle, breast plate of Judgment (Exodus 27:1; 30:2; Exodus 28:60), the Most Holy 10 x 10 |