Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Sopater, Sosipater SOPATER, SOSIPATER.These are two forms of the same name; St. Luke, as usual, adopts the more colloquial. 1. In Act 20:4 we read that Sopater, son of Pyrrhus (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ), of Bera, accompanied St. Paul on his journey towards Jerusalem as far as Asia (if these last words are part … Continue reading “Sopater, Sosipater”

SOPATER A Berean Christian, and one of those who attended Paul from Greece into Asia Minor, Mal 20:4 . He is supposed to have been the kinsman of Paul called Sosipater in 1Ch 16:21 . Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Sopater (, a common Greek name) Sopater is mentioned in Act 20:4 as a … Continue reading “Sopater”

SOP Joh 13:26, a small portion of bread, dipped in sauce, wine, or some other liquid at table, Rth 2:14 . Modern table utensils were unknown or little used by the ancients. The food was conveyed to the mouth of the thumb and fingers, and a choice morsel was often thus bestowed on a favored … Continue reading “Sop”

Soothsaying In Christian Times Although Christianity was a professed enemy to soothsaying and its kindred practices, yet the remains of such superstition continued in the minds of many in the Church. The Church was therefore obliged to make severe laws to restrain them. The Council of Eliberis (can. 62) makes the renunciation of this art … Continue reading “Soothsaying In Christian Times”

Soothsaying A comparison of the words used in different versions of the Scriptures to indicate the various practices and practisers of divination-using that word in its very widest sense-shows how indefinite was and is the significance attached to all these, and intensifies the desire that research may speedily classify them and determine the exact meaning … Continue reading “Soothsaying”

Soothsayers (See DIVINATION.) Old Saxon for “sayers of the truth.” Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary Soothsayers soothsa-erz. See ASTROLOGY, 1; DIVINATION. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Soothsayer, Enchanter The Chaldean soothsayer whom we read of in Dan 2:27; Dan 4:7; Dan 5:7; Dan 5:11, was no doubt an astrologer, who pretended to do what astrologers in many countries and in various er as have professed to do, namely, to calculate the destinies of man by interpreting the movements and conjunctions of … Continue reading “Soothsayer, Enchanter”

SOOTHSAYER See SORCERER. Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Soothsayer ( , kosem, Jos 13:22; elsewhere diviner;], meonen, Isa 2:6; Mic 5:12 [Hebrews 11]; elsewhere enchanter, sorcerer; Chald. , garez, Dan 2:27; Dan 4:7; Daniel 5, 7, 11; , soothsaying, Act 16:16). SEE DIVINATION. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Soothsayer one who … Continue reading “Soothsayer”

Sooner * For SOONER see QUICKLY, No. 2 Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Soon (as soon as) * For AS SOON AS see +, p. 9 Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words