SEA OF LOT See DEAD SEA; LAKE. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SEA OF LOT'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

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

SEA OF JAZER (yam ya`zer): This is a scribal error (Jeremiah 48:32), yam ("sea") being accidentally imported from the preceding clause. See JAZER; SEA. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SEA OF JAZER'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

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

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

SEA se (yam; thalassa; in Acts 27:5 pelagos): The Mediterranean is called ha-yam ha-gadhol, "the great sea" (Numbers 34:6; Joshua 1:4; Ezekiel 47:10, etc.); ha-yam ha-'acharon, "the hinder," or "western sea" (Deuteronomy 11:24; 34:2; Joel 2:20; Zechariah 14:8); yam pelishtim, "the sea of the Philis" (Exodus 23:31); the King James Version translate

SEA OF CHINNERETH kin'-e-reth. See GALILEE, SEA OF. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SEA OF CHINNERETH'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

SCYTHOPOLIS si-thop'-o-lis, si-thop'-o-lis. See BETH-SHEAN. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SCYTHOPOLIS'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

SCURVY skur'-vi (garabh); psora agria (Leviticus 21:20; 22:22)): This word is used to denote an itchy, scaly disease of the scalp, probably any of the parasitic diseases which are known as tinea, porrigo or impetigo. These cases have no relation whatever to the disease now known as scorbutus or scurvy. The name was probably derived from its scalin

SCYTHIANS sith'-i-anz (hoi Skuthai): The word does not occur in the Hebrew of the Old Testament, but Septuagint of Judges 1:27 inserts (Skuthon polis (Scythopolis), in explanation, as being the same as Beth-shean. The same occurs in Apocrypha (Judith 3:10; 1 Macc 12:29), and the Scythians as a people in 2 Macc 4:47, and the adjective in 3 Macc 7:5

SCUM skum (chel'ah; Septuagint ios, "poison" or "verdigris"; compare Plato Rep. 609a): The word is only found in Ezekiel 24:6,11,12, where the Revised Version (British and American) translates it "rust." The fact, however, that the caldron is of brass and therefore not liable to rust, and the astonishment expressed that the fire did not remove it

SCRIPTURES, SEARCH THE skrip'-turz. See SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SCRIPTURES, SEARCH THE'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

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

SCRIPTURE skrip'-tur (he graphe, plural hai graphai): The word means "writing." In the Old Testament it occurs in the King James Version only once, "the scripture of truth," in Daniel 10:21, where it is more correctly rendered in the Revised Version (British and American), "the writing of truth." The reference is not to Holy Scripture, but to the

SCRIP skrip: A word connected with "scrap," and meaning a "bag," either as made from a "scrap" (of skin) or as holding "scraps" (of food, etc.). the King James Version has "scrip" in 1 Samuel 17:40 and 6 times in New Testament; the English Revised Version has "wallet" in the New Testament, but retains "script" in 1 Samuel 17:40; the American Stand

SCREECH OWL skrech. See NIGHT-MONSTER. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SCREECH OWL'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

SCRIBES skribz: The existence of law leads necessarily to a profession whose business is the study and knowledge of the law; at any rate, if the law is extensive and complicated. At the time of Ezra and probably for some time after, this was chiefly the business of the priests. Ezra was both priest and scholar (copher). It was chiefly in the inter

SCOURGE; SCOURGING skurj, skur'-jing (@mastix], mastigoo; in Acts 22:25 mastizo, in Mark 15:15 parallel Matthew 27:26 phragelloo): A Roman implement for severe bodily punishment. Horace calls it horribile flagellum. It consisted of a handle, to which several cords or leather thongs were affixed, which were weighted with jagged pieces of bone or me

SCRABBLE skrab'-l: Occurs only in 1 Samuel 21:13, as the translation of tawah: "David .... feigned himself mad and scrabbled on the doors of the gate." "To scrabble" (modern English "scrawl") is here to make unmeaning marks; tawah means "to make a mark" from taw, "a mark," especially as a cross (Ezekiel 9:4), a signature (Job 31:35, see the Revise

SCORPIONS, CHASTISING WITH skor'-pi-unz. See PUNISHMENTS 3, (17); SCORPION. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SCORPIONS, CHASTISING WITH'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.