SAPPHIRE saf'-ir. See STONES, PRECIOUS. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SAPPHIRE'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

SAPHUTHI saf'-u-thi, sa-fu'-thi (Codex Alexandrinus and Fritzsche, Saphuthi, Codex Vaticanus (and Swete), Saphuei; the King James Version Sapheth): Name of one of the families of "the sons of the servants of Solomon" (1 Esdras 5:33) = "Shephatiah" in Ezra 2:57; Nehemiah 7:59. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Informat

SAPPHIRA sa-fi'-ra (shappira'; Aramaic for either "beautiful" or "sapphire"; Sappheira): Wife of Ananias (Acts 5:1-10). See ANANIAS, (1). Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SAPPHIRA'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

SAPHIR sa'-fer (shaphir). See SHAPHIR. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SAPHIR'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

SAPHETH sa'-feth: the King James Version = the Revised Version (British and American) SAPHUTHI (which see). Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SAPHETH'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

SAPHATIAS saf-a-ti'-as (Saphatias, Codex Vaticanus Sophotias; omitted in Codex Alexandrinus): Name of a family of returning exiles (1 Esdras 8:34) = "Shephatiah" in Ezra 8:8. If Saphatias (1 Esdras 8:34) = Saphat (1 Esdras 5:9), as would appear, then part of the family went up with Zerubbabel and part with Ezra. Copyright Statement These files are

SAPHAT sa'-fat: (1) A and Fritzsche, Saphat; omitted in Codex Vaticanus (and Swete); Babylonian margin Asaph: The eponym of a family which returned with Zerubbabel (1 Esdras 5:9) = "Shephatiah" in Ezra 2:4; Nehemiah 7:9. (2) Codex Alexandrinus Saphat; Codex Vaticanus, Swete, and Fritzsche, Saphag; the King James Version Sabat: One of the famili

SAPH saf (caph; Codex Vaticanus Saph; Codex Alexandrinus Sephe): A Philistine, one of the four champions of the race of Rapha ("giant") who was slain by Sibbecai, one of David's heroes (2 Samuel 21:18; 1 Chronicles 20:4). It is supposed by some that he was the son of the giant Goliath, but this is not proved. In 1 Chronicles 20:4, the same person

SANSANNAH san-san'-a (cancannah; [Sansanna], or Sethennak): One of the uttermost cities in the Negeb of Judah (Joshua 15:31), identical with Hazar-susah (Joshua 19:5), one of the cities of Simeon, and almost certainly the same as Hazar-susim (1 Chronicles 4:31). It cannot be said to have been identified with any certainty, though Simsim, "a good-s

SANDAL san'-dal. See DRESS, sec. 6; SHOE; SHOE-LATCHET. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SANDAL'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

SANHEDRIN san'-he-drin (canhedhrin, the Talmudic transcription of the Greek sunedrion): 1. Name: The Sanhedrin was, at and before the time of Christ, the name for the highest Jewish tribunal, of 71 members, in Jerusalem, and also for the lower tribunals, of 23 members, of which Jerusalem had two (Tosephta' Chaghighah] 11 9; Sanhedrin 1 6; 11 2).

SAND, GLOWING glo'-ing. See MIRAGE. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SAND, GLOWING'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

SAND-LIZARD sand'-liz-ard. (chomeT; Septuagint saura, "lizard"; the King James Version snail): ChomeT is 7th in the list of unclean "creeping things" in Leviticus 11:29,30, and occurs nowhere else. It is probably a skink or some species of Lacerta. See LIZARD Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James,

SAND FLIES sand'-fliz (kinnim (Exodus 8:16 margin; Wisdom of Solomon 19:10 margin)): English Versions of the Bible "lice." See FLEA; GNAT; INSECTS; LICE. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SAND FLIES'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

SANCTUARY sank'-tu-a-ri, sank'-tu-a-ri (miqdash, miqqedhash, qodhesh, "holy place"; hagion): 1. Nature of Article 2. The Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis The Three Stages 3. Difficulties of the Theory (1) Slaughter Not Necessarily Sacrificial (2) Sacrifice and Theophany (3) Alleged Plurality of Sanctuaries (4) The Altar of God's House (5) Local

SAND (chol; ammos; a variant of the more usual psammos; compare amathos, psamathos): Sand is principally produced by the grinding action of waves. This is accompanied by chemical solution, with the result that the more soluble constituents of the rock diminish in amount or disappear and the sands tend to become more or less purely silicious, silic

SANCTITY, LEGISLATION OF sank'-ti-ti, lej-is-la'-shun. See ASTRONOMY, sec. I, 5, (6). Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SANCTITY, LEGISLATION OF'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

SANBALLAT san-bal'-at (canebhallaT; Greek and Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) Sanaballat; Peshitta, Samballat): Sanballat the Horonite was, if the appellation which follows his name indicates his origin, a Moabite of Horonaim, a city of Moab mentioned in Isaiah 15:5; Jeremiah 48:2,5,34; Josephus, Ant, XIII, xxiii; XIV, ii. He is named

SANCTIFICATION sank-ti-fi-ka'-shun: Etymology I. THE FORMAL SENSE 1. In the Old Testament 2. In the New Testament II. THE ETHICAL SENSE 1. Transformation of Formal to Ethical Idea 2. Our Relation to God as Personal: New Testament Idea 3. Sanctification as God's Gift 4. Questions of Time and Method 5. An Element in All Christian Life 6.

SANASIB san'-a-sib (Fritzsche, Sanasib, but Codex Vaticanus and Swete, Sanabeis; Codex Alexandrinus Anaseib): Found only in 1 Esdras 5:24, where the sons of Jeddu, the son of Jesus, are a priestly family returning "among the sons of Sanasib." The name is not found in the parallel Ezra 2:36; Nehemiah 7:39, and is perhaps preserved in the Vulgate (J