Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Seasons (Gen. 8:22). See AGRICULTURE; MONTH. Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary Seasons sez’nz (summer: , kayic, Chaldaic , kayit (Dan 2:35); (, theros; winter: , sethaw) (Son 2:11), (, horeph; , cheimon): The four seasons in Palestine are not so marked as in more northern countries, summer gradually fading into winter and winter into summer. The … Continue reading “Seasons”

Season (Verb) “to arrange, make ready” (cp. artios, “fitted”), is used of “seasoning,” Mar 9:50; Luk 14:34; Col 4:6. Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Season (Noun) primarily, “due measure, fitness, proportion,” is used in the NT to signify “a season, a time, a period” possessed of certain characteristics, frequently rendered “time” or “times;” in the following the RV substitutes “season” for the AV “time,” thus distinguishing the meaning from chronos (see No. 2): Mat 11:25; Mat 12:1; Mat 14:1; … Continue reading “Season (Noun)”

Season (properly , a fixed time,’ , often rendered “time” in general, and not specific of a portion of the year). The general division of the year by the Hebrews was into two seasons, “Summer and Winter” (Psalm 64:17; Zec 14:8); but they appear also to have conveniently divided the year into six special seasons: … Continue reading “Season”

Sears, Clinton W. a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Chautauqua County, N. Y. April 27, 1819. He was educated at Yale College and Middletown Wesleyan University. He was a member of the Cincinnati Conference, and had occupied Several responsible stations, when, in 1862, he was appointed chaplain of the Ninety-fifth Regiment … Continue reading “Sears, Clinton W.”

Sears, Baarnas, D.D., LL.D an eminent Baptist minister, was born at Sandisfield. Massachusetts, November 19, 1802. In 1825 he graduated from Brown University, and four years later from Newton Theological Seminary. From 1827 to 1829 he was pastor of the First Baptist Church at Hartford, Connecticut. From 1830 to 1832 he was a professor in … Continue reading “Sears, Baarnas, D.D., LL.D”

Sears. Allen a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in New York State in 1806, received on trial in the Kentucky Conference in 1838, appointed to Taylorsville Circuit as junior preacher, and continued to travel within the bounds of that conference for seven years successively. In 1845 he was transferred to the Indiana Conference, and appointed … Continue reading “Sears. Allen”

Searles, Isaac a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Hartford, Conn., Oct. 30, 1816, removed to Ohio at an early age, and professed conversion in his seventeenth year. He was received on trial into the Rock River Conference, Aug. 25, 1841; ordained deacon in 1843, and elder in 1845. In 1848 the … Continue reading “Searles, Isaac”

Searle, Moses C; a Presbyterian minister, was born in Byfield, Mass., Sept. 17,1797. He graduated at the College of New Jersey, Princeton, in 1821, and at the Theological Seminary in that place in 1824; was licensed by the New Brunswick Presbytery, and, going East, began his labors in Grafton, Mass., being ordained by Newburyport Presbytery … Continue reading “Searle, Moses C;”

Searle, Jeremiah a (Dutch) Reformed minister, was born at Atkinson, N. H., in 1795. He was educated in part at Bowdoin College, Me., and graduated at Union College, N. Y, in 1820. He studied theology with Dr. Andrew Yates, and was licensed by the Congregational Association of Vermont in 1823. His ministerial life was spent … Continue reading “Searle, Jeremiah”