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Swallows , a bird too well known to need description. Our translators of the Bible have given this name to two different Hebrew words. The first, , in Psa 84:3, and Pro 26:2, is probably the bird which Forskal mentions among the migratory birds of Alexandria, by the name of dururi; and the second, , … Continue reading “Swallows”

SWALLOWING UP Swallow up signifies consuming by conquest. To drink up the sea, is a symbol which Schehabeddin, a learned Mussulman doctor, explained to signify, to command all the world; i. e. to get it under one’s power. See Isa 49:19; Jer 51:44; Hos 8:8. Fuente: A Symbolical Dictionary

Swallow (Verb) “to drink down” (kata, and pino, “to drink”), “to swallow,” is used with this meaning (a) physically, but figuratively, Mat 23:24; Rev 12:16; (b) metaphorically, in the Passive Voice, of death (by victory), 1Co 15:54; of being overwhelmed by sorrow, 2Co 2:7; of the mortal body (by life), 2Co 5:4. See DEVOUR, No. … Continue reading “Swallow (Verb)”

SWALLOW The well-known bird of passage, which is so common both in our country, in Europe, and in the East, Psa 84:3 ; Isa 38:14 ; Jer 8:7 . See CRANE, and SPARROW. Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Swallow Swallow. The swallow is a migratory bird quite familiar to residents of the Holy Land. … Continue reading “Swallow”

Swain, Richard a Methodist Episcopal minister, was a native of New Jersey. In 1789 he was admitted on trial, in 1791 into full connection, and filled the following stations: Trenton, N. J., in 1789; Flanders, in 1790-91; Middletown Circuit, Conn., in 1792; New London, in 1793; Salem, N. J, in 1794; Burlington, in 1795; Freehold, … Continue reading “Swain, Richard”

Swain, Nathan a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in 1767, and converted when fourteen years of age. In 1799 he was admitted on trial in the Philadelphia Conference, in 1801 admitted into full connection and ordained deacon, and in 1803 ordained elder. He continued effective, with the exception of two years, until 1816, when he … Continue reading “Swain, Nathan”

Swain, Leonard, D.D a Congregational minister, was born at Concord, N.H., February 26, 1821. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1841, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1846; was immediately ordained pastor of the Church in Nashua, establishing from the outset a reputation as an able- and eloquent preacher. His next pastorate was over the … Continue reading “Swain, Leonard, D.D”

Swain, Charles W a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born at New Bedford, Mass., Oct. 22,1793. He united with the Church in Richmond, Clermont Co., O., in 1819, and in 1831 was admitted on trial into the Ohio Conference, and in due time received deacon’s and elder’s orders. He was actively engaged in … Continue reading “Swain, Charles W”

Swaim, Thomas, D.D a Baptist minister, was born at Pemberton, N.J., March 30,1817. He was for a time a student in Brown University in the class of 1838, and having completed his college course in Madison University, graduated from Hamilton Theological Seminary in 1844. He was ordained in November, 1846, pastor at Washington, Pennsylvania. At … Continue reading “Swaim, Thomas, D.D”

Swaim, Samuel Budd, D.D an able minister of the Baptist denomination, was born at Pemberton, N.J., June 22, 1809, and was a graduate of Brown University in the class of 1830 and of the Newton Theological Institution in the class of 1833. He was ordained at Haverhill, Mass., Nov. 7, 1833. For some time he … Continue reading “Swaim, Samuel Budd, D.D”