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•SERUG branch, the father of Nahor (Genesis 11:20-23); called Saruch in Luke 3:35.
•SERVITOR occurs only in 2 Kings 4:43, Authorized Version (R.V., “servant”). The Hebrew word there rendered “servitor” is elsewhere rendered “minister,” “servant” (Exodus 24:13; 33:11). Probably Gehazi, the personal attendant on Elisha, is here meant.
•SETH appointed; a substitute, the third son of Adam and Eve (Genesis 4:25; 5:3). His mother gave him this name, “for God,” said she, “hath appointed me [i.e., compensated me with] another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.”
•SETHUR hidden, one of the spies sent to search the Promised Land. He was of the tribe of Asher (Numbers 13:13).
•SEVEN This number occurs frequently in Scripture, and in such connections as lead to the supposition that it has some typical meaning. On the seventh day God rested, and hallowed it (Genesis 2:2, 3). The division of time into weeks of seven days each accounts for many instances of the occurrence of this number. This number has been called the symbol of perfection, and also the symbol of rest. “Jacob’s seven years’ service to Laban; Pharaoh’s seven fat oxen and seven lean ones; the seven branches of the golden candlestick; the seven trumpets and the seven priests who sounded them; the seven days’ siege of Jericho; the seven churches, seven spirits, seven stars, seven seals, seven vials, and many others, sufficiently prove the importance of this sacred number” (see