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Smith's Bible Dictionary
•Shebuel the son of Heman the minstrel. (1 Chronicles 25:20)
Shuham
(pit-digger) son of Dan and ancestor of the Shuhamites. (Numbers 26:42)
Shuhamites, The
[Shuham]
Shuhite
(decendant of Shuah). This ethnic appellative “Shuhite” is frequent in the book of Job, but only
as the apithet of one person, Bildad The local indications of this book point to a region on the
western side of Chaldea, bordering on Arabia; and exactly in this locality, above Hit and on both
sides of the Euphrates, are found, in the Assyrian inscriptions, the Tsahi, a powerful people. It is
probable that these were the Shuhites.
Shulamite, The
one of the personages in the poem of Solomon’s (Song of Solomon 6:13) The name denotes a
woman belonging to a place called Shulem, which is probably the same as Shunem. [Shunem] If,
then, Shulamite and Shunammite are equivalent, we may conjecture that the Shunammite who was
the object of Solomon’s passion was Abishag, the most lovely girl of her day, and at the time of
David’s death the most prominent person at Jerusalem.
Shumathites, The
one of the four families who sprang from Kirjath-jearim. (1 Chronicles 2:53)
Shunammite, The
i.e. the native of Shunem, is applied to two persons: Abishag, the nurse of King David, (1 Kings
1:3,15; 2:17,21,22) and the nameless hostess of Elisha. (2 Kings 4:12,25; 36)
Shunem
(double resting-place), one of the cities allotted to the tribe of Issachar. (Joshua 13:18) It is
mentioned on two occasions— (1 Samuel 23:4; 2 Kings 4:8) It was besides the native place of
Abishag. (1 Kings 1:3) It is mentioned by Eusebius as five miles south of Mount Tabor, and then
known us Sulem. This agrees with the position of the present Solam, a village three miles north of
Jezreel and five from Gilboa.
Shuni
(fortunate), son of Gad, and founder of the family of the Shunites. (Genesis 46:16; Numbers
26:15) (B.C. 1706.)
Shunites, The
the descendants of Shuni.
Shupham
[Shuppim]
Shuphamites, The
the descendants of Shupham or Shephupham, the Benjamite. (Numbers 26:3)
Shuppim
(serpents). In the genealogy of Benjamin “Shuppim and Huppim, the children of Ir,” are reckoned
in (1 Chronicles 7:12) It is the same as Iri the son of Bela the son of Benjamin, so that Shuppim
was the great-grandson of Benjamin.
Shur
(a wall), a place just without the eastern border of Egypt. Shur is first mentioned in the narrative
of Haggar’s flight from Sarah. (Genesis 16:7) Abraham afterward “dwelled between Kadesh and
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