SEVENTY YEARS The period assigned by Jeremiah for the duration of the Jewish exile in Babylon (Jeremiah 25:11,12; 29:10; compare 2 Chronicles 36:21; Ezra 1:1; Daniel 9:2). If the period be reckoned from the date of the first deportation in the 4th year of Jehoiakim (2 Kings 24:1; 2 Chronicles 36:6; Daniel 1:1 by another reckoning calls it the 3rd y

SEVENTY DISCIPLES The account of the designation and mission of these is found only in Luke 10. Some have therefore sought to maintain that we have here only a confused variant of the appointment of the Twelve; but this is impossible in the light of Luke's account of the Twelve in chapter 9. The documents vary as between the numbers seventy and se

SEVENTY WEEKS The "seventy weeks" of the prophecy in Daniel 9:24-27 have long been a subject of controversy in the critical schools. The conflicting views may be seen very fully in Dr. Driver's Daniel, 94, 143, and Dr. Pusey's Daniel the Prophet, lectionaries II, III, IV. On both sides it is agreed that the "weeks" in this prophecy are to be interp

SEVENTY sev'-n-ti (shibh`im; hebdomekonta). See NUMBER. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SEVENTY'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

SEVENTH, DAY sev'-'-nth. See SABBATH. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SEVENTH, DAY'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

SEVENEH se-ven'-e, se-ve'-ne (ceweneh): For the King James Version "the tower of Syene," in Ezekiel 29:10; 30:6, the Revised Version (British and American) reads, "the tower of Seveneh," with a marginal note, "or, from Migdol to Syene." Seveneh is the town at the First Cataract in Egypt, now known as Assuan. Fresh interest has recently been given

SEVEN STARS See ASTRONOMY. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SEVEN STARS'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

SEVEN CHURCHES See CHURCHES, SEVEN. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SEVEN CHURCHES'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

SEVEN sev'-'-n (shebha`; hepta). See NUMBER. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SEVEN'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

SETTLE (1) set'-'-l (`azarah): For this word in Ezekiel 43:14,17,20; 45:19, the American Standard Revised Version and the English Revised Version margin substitute more correctly "ledge." See TEMPLE. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SETTLE (1)'". "Intern

SETTLE (2) The Hebrew language has 8 words which are thus translated: yashabh, nachath, `amadh, shaqat, tabha`, natsabh, maqom, qapha'. Now the meaning is to settle down, to cause to occur (Ezekiel 36:11 the King James Version; 1 Chronicles 17:14); then it denotes fixedness (2 Kings 8:11; Psalms 119:89; Proverbs 8:25); again it points to a conditi

SETTING set'-ing (millu'ah, literally, "a filling"): The word is used in the description of the manufacture of the breastplate of judgment (Exodus 28:17). The instruction runs: "Thou shalt set in it settings of stones," namely, four rows of precious stones. The same word is rendered "inclosings" in Exodus 28:20, and in 39:13 the King James Version

SETHUR se'-thur (cethur; Sathour): An Asherite spy (Numbers 13:13)). Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SETHUR'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

SETH; SHETH seth, sheth (sheth; Seth): (1) The son born to Adam and Eve after the death of Abel (Genesis 4:25; 5:3; 1Ch 1:1; Sirach 49:16; Luke 3:38). In Genesis 4:25 the derivation of the name is given. Eve "called his name Seth: For, said she, God hath appointed (shath) me another seed instead of Abel." In 1 Chronicles 1:1 the King James Versio

SESTHEL ses'-thel (Sesthel): One of the sons of Addi who put away their foreign wives (1 Esdras 9:31)= "Bezalel" in Ezra 10:30. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SESTHEL'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

SET Few words in the English language have such a rich variety of meaning and are used in so rich a variety of idiomatic expression as the word "set." A glance at any of the great dictionaries will convince anyone of the truth of this statement. The Standard Dictionary devotes three and a half columns to the word. In its primary meaning it there de

SESIS se'-sis (Codex Vaticanus Seseis; Codex Alexandrinus Sesseis): One who put away his foreign wife (1 Esdras 9:34) = "Shashai" in Ezra 10:40. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SESIS'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

SERVITUDE sur'-vi-tud. See SERVANT; SLAVE. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SERVITUDE'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

SERVANTS, SOLOMON'S See SOLOMON'S SERVANTS. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SERVANTS, SOLOMON'S'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

SERVICE sur'-vis: Six Hebrew, two Aramaic and four Greek words are so rendered. 1. In the Old Testament: In the Old Testament the word most used for "service" is (1) `abhodhah, from `abhadh, which is the general word, meaning "to work" and so "to serve," "to till," also "to enslave." The noun means "bondage," "labor," "ministering," "service,"