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Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Sabachthani
Sabaeans
Sabanneus
Sabannus
Sabaoth
Sabateus
Sabathus
Sabbateus
Sabbath
Sabbath-day's Journey
Morrish Bible Dictionary
Sabbath-day's Journey.This is mentioned as the greatest distance a Jew was allowed to travel on the Sabbath. There is no injunction as to this in the law, but when some of the people went out to gather manna on the Sabbath, Moses enjoined, "Abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day." Ex. 16:29. In N.T. times it was understood that a person might travel two thousand cubits (about five furlongs); this extent had been fixed on because when the Israelites were marching they were commanded to keep the above named distance from the ark, and it was concluded that when they were encamped, there was the same distance between the tabernacle and the tents, and that this space was constantly travelled for worship. When they were in the land the distance was reckoned from the gate of the city from which the traveller started. Acts 1:12. The Lord perhaps referred to this custom when He bade the disciples pray that, in the judgement of Jerusalem, their flight should not be "on the Sabbath-day." Matt. 24:20.
Sabbatical Year
Sabbatical Year.The Sabbath being the sign of God's covenant with Israel (See SABBATH), and that He purposed that they should enjoy His rest, even the land must keep its Sabbath every seventh year. God promised that the produce of the sixth year should be enough for three years, so that the land resting a full year should cause no scarcity. Ex. 23:10-11; Lev. 25:2-7. Apparently the Sabbatical years were not observed. Lev. 26:33-35. See JUBILEE.
Sabbeus
Sabeans
Sabeans. [Sabe'ans]There are four persons who have been regarded as progenitors of the Sabeans. 1. Seba, son of Cush. Gen. 10:7. 2. Sheba, grandson of Cush. Gen. 10:7. 3. Sheba, descendant of Joktan. Gen. 10:28. 4. Sheba, son of Jokshan. Gen. 25:3. The first two are descendants of Ham, and the last two descendants of Shem. For their localities see SEBA and SHEBA. Some were marauders who swept away the oxen and asses of Job. Job 1:15. In Isa. 45:14 they were travelling merchants. In Joel 3:8 they are represented as a people 'far off,' to whom Judah will sell their enemies. These passages may not all refer to the same people. In Ezek. 23:42 the chethib reads 'drunkards,' as in the margin of the A.V. and the text of the R.V.
Sabi
Sabias
Sabie
Sabta
Sabta, [Sab'ta] Sabtah. [Sab'tah]Third son of Cush. Gen. 10:7; 1 Chr. 1:9. Where he was located is not known.
Sabteca
Sabtecha
Sabtecha, [Sab'techa] Sabtechah. [Sab'techah]Fifth son of Cush. Gen. 10:7; 1 Chr. 1:9. It is not known where he was located.
Sacar
Sackbut
Sackcloth
Sacraments
Sacrifice
Sacrifice.As a technical religious term, 'sacrifice' designates anything which, having been devoted to a holy purpose, cannot be called back. In the generality of sacrifices offered to God under the law the consciousness is supposed in the offerer that death, as God's judgement, was on him; hence the sacrifice had to be killed that it might be accepted of God at his hand. In fact the word sacrifice often refers to the act of killing. The first sacrifice we read of was that offered by Abel, though there is an indication of the death of victims in the fact that Adam and Eve were clothed by God with coats of skins. Doubtless in some way God had instructed man that, the penalty of the fall and of his own sin being that his life was forfeited, he could only appropriately approach God by the death of a substitute not chargeable with his offence; for it was by faith that Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. Heb. 11:4. God afterward instructed Cain that if he did not well, sin, or a sin offering, lay at the door. The subject was more fully explained under the law: "The life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul." Lev. 17:11. Not that the blood of bulls and of goats had any inherent efficacy to take away sins; but it was typical of the blood of Christ which is the witness that they have been taken away for the believer by Christ's sacrifice. Christ appeared once in the end of the world "to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself;" and He having once died, there remains no more sacrifice for sins. Eph. 5:2; Heb. 9:26; Heb. 10:4, 12, 26. Without faith in the sacrificial death of Christ there is no salvation, as is taught in Rom. 3:25; Rom. 4:24-25; 1 Cor. 15:1-4. The Christian is exhorted to present his body a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is his intelligent service, Rom. 12:1: cf. 2 Cor. 8:5; Phil. 4:18. He offers by Christ the sacrifice of praise to God, and even to do good and to communicate are sacrifices well pleasing to God. Heb. 13:15-16: cf. 1 Peter 2:5. For the sacrifices under the law see OFFERINGS.
Sadducees
Sadduk
Sadoc
Saffron
Sails
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