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SHAASHGAZ servant of the beautiful, a chief eunuch in the second house of the harem of king Ahasuerus (Esther 2:14).

SHABBETHAI Sabbath-born, a Levite who assisted in expounding the law and investigating into the illegal marriages of the Jews (Ezra 10:15; Nehemiah 8:7; 11:16).

SHADDAI the Omnipotent, the name of God in frequent use in the Hebrew Scriptures, generally translated “the Almighty.”