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Smith's Bible Dictionary
tight, it would be safe to assign seven points as the limit. Boats on the Sea Of Galilee .—In the
narrative of the call of the disciples to be “fishers of men,” (Matthew 4:18-22; Mark 1:16,20; Luke
5:1-11) there is no special information concerning the characteristics of these. With the large
population round the Lake of Tiberias, there must have been a vast number of both fighting-boats
and pleasure-boats, and boat-building must have been an active trade on its shores.
Shiphi
(abundant), a Simeonite, father of Ziza, a prince of the tribe in the time of Hezekiah. (1
Chronicles 4:37) (B.C. 726.)
Shiphmite The
probably, though not certainly, the native of Shepham. (1 Chronicles 27:27)
Shiphrah
(brightness), (Exodus 1:15) the name of one of the two midwives of the Hebrews who disobeyed
the command of Pharaoh to kill the mule children. vs. (Exodus 1:15-21) (B.C. 1570.)
Shiphtan
(judicial), father of Kemuel, a prince of the tribe of Ephraim. (Numbers 34:24) (B.C. before
1450.)
Shiramoth
(name of heights, i.e. Jehovah).
•A Levite of the second degree in the choir formed by David. (1 Chronicles 15:18,20; 16:5) (B.C.
104.)
•A Levite in the reign of Jehoshaphat. (2 Chronicles 17:8) (B.C. 909.)
Shisha
(Jehovah contends), father of Elihoreph and Ahiah, the royal secretaries in the reign of Solomon.
(1 Kings 4:3) He is apparently the same as Shavsha, who held the same position under David. (B.C.
1000.)
Shishak
king of Egypt, the Sheshonk I. of the monuments, first sovereign of the Bubastite twenty-second
dynasty. His reign offers the first determined syncronism of Egyptian and hebrew history. The first
year of Shishak would about correspond to the 26th of Solomon (B.C. 989), and the 20th of shishak
to the 5th of Rehoboam. Shishak at the beginning of his reign received the fugitive Jeroboam, (1
Kings 11:40) and it was probably at the instigation of Jeroboam that he attacked Rehoboam. “He
took the fenced cities which [pertained] to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.” he exacted all the treasures
of his city from Rehoboam, and apparently made him tributary. (1 Kings 14:25,26; 2 Chronicles
12:2-9) Shishak has left a record of this expedition sculptured on the wall of the great temple of
El-Karnak. It is a list of the countries, cities and tribes conquered or ruled by him, or tributary to
him.
Shittah Tree, Shittim
(Heb. shittah, the thorny), is without doubt correctly referred to some species of Acacia, of
which three or four kinds occur in the Bible lands. The woof of this tree—perhaps the Acacia seyal
is more definitely signified—was extensively employed in the construction of the tabernacle. See
Exod 25,26,36,37,38. (This tree is sometimes three or four feet in diameter (Tristram). The wood
is close-grained and hard, of a fine orange-brown color, and admirably adapted to cabinet
work.—ED.) The A. seyal is very common in some parts of the peninsula of Sinai. It yields the
well-known substance called gum arabic, which is obtained by incisions in the bark, but it is
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