Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Seared * For SEARED see BRANDED Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Searchings surchingz ((), hikre (lebh), from hakar, to search, explore, examine thoroughly): In the song of Deborah the Reubenites are taunted because their great resolves of heart, hikeke lebh, led to nothing but great searchings of heart, hikeke lebh, and no activity other than to remain among their flocks (Jdg 5:15 f). The first of … Continue reading “Searchings”

Searching SEARCHING.Searching (of Latin-French derivation) is a richer word than seeking (of Anglo-Saxon origin), because it implies examination as well as looking and asking (cf. 1Pe 1:10). Thus while and its compounds are always translated seek, the words corresponding to search are (Act 17:11 only), , and . In Mat 2:8 is appropriately used for … Continue reading “Searching”

Search the Scriptures The sentence beginning with (, eraunate), in Joh 5:39 the King James Version has been almost universally regarded as meaning Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life. But one cannot read as far as , dokete, ye think, without feeling that there is something wrong with the … Continue reading “Search the Scriptures”

SEARCH FOR GOD Job 23:3; Jer 29:13; Hos 6:3; Act 17:27 –SEE Seekers, SEEKING GOD Fuente: Thompson Chain-Reference Bible

Search surch: Some peculiar senses are: (1) In the books of Moses, especially in Nu, searching out the land means to spy out (, raggel), to investigate carefully, to examine with a view to giving a full and accurate report on. (2) When applied to the Scriptures, as in Ezr 4:15, Ezr 4:19 (, bakker); … Continue reading “Search”

Sear occurs in Scripture only in the rendering of the word to brand (“sear with a hot iron”), in a tropical sense of the conscience (1Ti 4:2). To sear the flesh is to cauterize or burn it, and thus deprive it of the power of sensation. In 1Ti 4:2 the term denotes the effect of … Continue reading “Sear”

Seamew SEAMEW.See Cuckow. Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible

Seamen See Mariner Mariner Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible

Seaman, Richard a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born April 28,1785. He studied medicine, and was admitted to practice in New York when about nineteen. He became a Christian in 1812, and in 1823 was received into the New York Conference, and was regularly appointed until 1845, when he was obliged to take … Continue reading “Seaman, Richard”