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Smith's Bible Dictionary
and also of a tribe fallen into idolatry. As an administrative council, it determined other important
matters. Jesus was arraigned before this body as a false prophet, (John 11:47) and Peter, John,
Stephen and Paul as teachers of error and deceivers of the people. From (Acts 9:2) it appears that
the Sanhedrin exercised a degree of authority beyond the limits of Palestine. According to the
Jerusalem Gemara the power of inflicting capital punishment was taken away from this tribunal
forty years before the destruction of Jerusalem. With this agrees the answer of the Jews to Pilate.
(John 19:31) The Talmud also mentions a lesser Sanhedrin of twenty-three members in every city
in Palestine in which were not less than 120 householders.
Sansannah
(palm branch), one of the towns in the south district of Judah, named in (Joshua 15:31) only.
Saph
(tall), one of the sons of the giant slain by Sibbechai the Hushathite. (2 Samuel 21:18) In (1
Chronicles 20:4) he is called Sippai. (B.C. about 1050.)
Saphir
(fair), one of the villages addressed by the prophet Micha, (Micah 1:11) is described by Eusebius
and jerome as “in the mountain district between Eleutheropolis and Ascalon,” perhaps represented
by the village es-Sawafir, seven or eight miles to the northeast of Ascalon.
Sapphira
[Ananias]
Sapphire
(Heb. sappir), a precious stone, apparently of a bright-blue color, set: (Exodus 24:10) the second
stone in the second row of the high priest’s breastplate, (Exodus 28:18) extremely precious, (Job
28:16) it was one of the precious stones that ornamented the king of Tyre. (Ezekiel 28:13) The
sapphire of the ancients was not our gem of that name, viz. the azure or indigo-blue, crystalline
variety of corundum, but our lapis lazuli (ultra-marine).
Sara
Greek form of Sarah.
Sarah
(princess).
•The wife and half-sister, (Genesis 20:12) of Abraham, and mother of Isaac. Her name is first
introduced in (Genesis 11:29) as Sarai. The change of her name from Sarai, my princess (i.e.
Abraham’s), to Sarah, princess (for all the race), was made at the same time that Abram’s name
was changed to Abraham,—on the establishment of the covenant of circumcision between him
and God. Sarah’s history is of course that of Abraham. [Abraham] She died at Hebron at the age
of 127 years, 28 years before her husband and was buried by him in the cave of (B.C. 1860.) She
is referred to in the New Testament as a type of conjugal obedience in (1 Peter 3:6) and as one of
the types of faith in (Hebrews 11:11)
•Sarah, the daughter of Asher. (Numbers 26:46)
Sarai
(my princess) the original name of Sarah wife of Abraham.
Saraph
(burning) mentioned in (1 Chronicles 4:22) among the descendants of Judah.
Sardine, Sardius
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