English Bible words starting with S
1,394 meanings beginning with S, in alphabetical order. This is page 2 of 14. Under each one are the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words the Bible actually uses for it.
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sated1 word
satiety2 words
satisfied3 words
- savaשָׂבֵעַto have one's fill: to eat or have enough of something until the appetite or need is met
- chortazōχορτάζωto fill someone with food until they have had enough; to eat one's fill, be satisfied
- save'aשָׂבֵעַhaving had enough: full or sated, whether of food, of years, or of anything else that has come in full measure
satisfy3 words
satisfying1 word
satrap2 words
- aḥashdarpanאֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנִיןa satrap: the ruler the Persian king set over one of the empire's great regions, ranked above its governors and answerable to the king himself
- aḥashdarpanאֲחַשְׁדַּרְפַּןa satrap: the highest provincial ruler of the Persian Empire, appointed by the king and set over the governors of his region
satyr1 word
- sa'irשָׂעִירhairy: covered with hair, shaggy of body
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- he-goat: a male goat, especially the goat offered for sin
- goat-demon: a shaggy goat-shaped spirit of the waste places, also worshiped as an idol
- sa'irשָׂעִירhairy: covered with hair, shaggy of body
saul3 words
save9 words
- sōzōσῴζωto bring someone safely through a threat into wholeness: to rescue, heal, or save
- natsalנָצַלto rescue: to snatch someone out of danger, into safety
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- to strip off and carry away: to take plunder, or pull clothing or ornaments off
- yasahיָשַׁעto save: to step in on behalf of someone in danger, distress, or the wrong, and bring them through to safety, victory, or vindication.
- biltiבִּלְתִּיa negative word meaning not, except, or so that not; it cancels or limits whatever follows it
- raqרַקonly: a limiting word that narrows a statement down to one thing and shuts everything else out
save up1 word
saving1 word
saving acts1 word
savior1 word
savory food1 word
savour2 words
saw5 words
say9 words
- amarאָמַרto say: to speak words, and so to think them or to declare them
- eiponεἶπονsaid: to put something into words on a particular occasion, the simple past of "to say"
- legōλέγωto say: to put something into words, whether spoken aloud or set down in writing
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- to be called or named: to bear a name, title, or label that others apply to a person, place, or thing
- laleōλαλέωto speak: to open one's mouth and produce speech, with the focus on the act and activity of speaking itself
- davarדָבַרto speak: to put thought into words and aim them at a hearer
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- to subdue: to bring peoples under someone's rule
say farewell to1 word
say nothing1 word
say rashly1 word
saying6 words
- logosλόγοςa word, statement, or message: anything that is said, whether a single saying, a whole teaching, or, in its loaded Christian use, the message of the gospel itself.
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- an account or reckoning: a settling of the books, the tally a person must hand over for what they have done.
- a reason, ground, or basis: the cause behind an action, or the case a person makes to defend or explain it.
- a matter, affair, or thing: the issue under discussion, the case at hand.
- davarדָּבָרa word, or the matter that word is about: anything said, and equally the affair, event, or thing being spoken of
- rhēmaῥῆμαa spoken word: an utterance, saying, or statement that has actually been said
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- a matter, thing, or event: the affair that an utterance is about, an extension carried over from Hebrew
- emerאֵמֶרa spoken word or saying: what someone puts into speech
- millahמִלָּהwords or speech: what a person says, whether a single utterance or a whole line of argument
- logosλόγοςa word, statement, or message: anything that is said, whether a single saying, a whole teaching, or, in its loaded Christian use, the message of the gospel itself.
says1 word
scab5 words
scabbard1 word
- ta'arתַּעַרa razor: the small keen blade held in the hand to shave hair, or to cut and trim.
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- a sheath: the case a sword rests in and is drawn out of.
- ta'arתַּעַרa razor: the small keen blade held in the hand to shave hair, or to cut and trim.
scale3 words
scales3 words
- zugosζυγόςa pair of scales: the balance beam from which two weighing pans hang, used to measure out goods by weight
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- a yoke: the wooden bar laid across the neck to bind someone to a load or a master, and so a picture of being placed under an authority, from crushing servitude to willing service
- mozenמֹאזֵןa pair of scales; the balance used to weigh something
- qasqesetקַשְׂקֶשֶׂתa scale: one of the small hard plates that overlap to cover a fish or a river beast, and the same shape in metal on a soldier's armored coat.
- zugosζυγόςa pair of scales: the balance beam from which two weighing pans hang, used to measure out goods by weight
scall1 word
scalp1 word
scaly patch1 word
scapegoat1 word
scar1 word
scarcely1 word
scarlet3 words
- kokkinosκόκκινοςscarletnot studied yet
- tole'ahתּוֹלֵעָהscarlet: the crimson dye taken from a small insect, and the costly yarn or cloth colored with it
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- a worm, grub, or maggot: a small soft creature that breeds in rot and eats away what it feeds on
- shaniשָׁנִיscarlet: the costly bright-red dye made from a scale insect, and the wool, thread, or cloth colored with it
scatter14 words
- diaspeirōδιασπείρωto scatternot studied yet
- putsפּוּץto scatter: to drive people or things apart so they spread out over a wide area
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- to overflow: to spill out and flow abroad like water from a spring
- to shatter: to break something into pieces by a hard blow
- parasפָּרַשׂto spread out: to open something wide or stretch it flat across a space.
- diaskorpizōδιασκορπίζωto scatter completely: to break up something gathered so that its parts are driven off in every direction
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- to squander: to throw money or property away until nothing is left of it
- nadaḥנָדַחto drive away: to push or force someone or something out of where it belongs.
scattered2 words
- nadaphנָדַףto blow away: to sweep a weightless thing off on a rush of wind so that it scatters and is nowhere to be found
- parashפָּרַשׁto make plain: to separate a thing out from the blur around it so that it stands clear and settled.
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- to sting: to strike and pierce, as a poisonous snake does.
scattering wind1 word
scent2 words
scepter3 words
- shevetשֵׁבֶטa rod: a wooden stick used to strike, to guide a flock, or to mark out a ruler's authority
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- a tribe: one of the family branches that together make up the people of Israel
- rhabdosῥάβδοςa scepter: the staff a ruler holds as the sign of his right to govern
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- a staff: a length of wood carried in the hand, to walk with, to strike with, or to keep as a token
- sharvitשַׁרְבִֿיטscepternot studied yet
- shevetשֵׁבֶטa rod: a wooden stick used to strike, to guide a flock, or to mark out a ruler's authority
Sceva1 word
scheme4 words
- zimmahזִמָּהa scheme: a purpose someone deliberately works out, most often an evil plot
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- depravity: deliberate, shameless wickedness, most often sexual immorality
- mezimmahמְזִמָּהa deliberate, calculated design formed in the mind: a settled plan that reads as shrewd prudence, wicked scheming, or God's fixed purpose, depending on who makes it and to what end
- zamamזָמַםto settle the mind on a course of action and mean to carry it out: to purpose, resolve, deliberately intend.
- methodeiaμεθοδείαschemenot studied yet
- zimmahזִמָּהa scheme: a purpose someone deliberately works out, most often an evil plot
schemes2 words
schism1 word
schismatic1 word
science1 word
scoff1 word
scoffing1 word
scolded1 word
scorch3 words
scorched2 words
scorching3 words
scorn8 words
- ḥerpahחֶרְפָּהpublic disgrace: the scorn others heap on you and the shame that then sticks to you in their eyes
- bazahבָּזָהto despise: to treat someone or something as worthless and beneath respect.
- kataphroneōκαταφρονέωto look down on: to judge that someone or something counts for little, and to act on that judgment
- la'agלָעַגto mock: to treat someone with open, jeering contempt, usually with derisive laughter
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- of a foreign tongue: to sound like unintelligible babble to the hearer
- buzבּוּזto treat as worthless: to weigh a person, idea, or thing and count it as of no value, looking down on it as beneath notice
scorner1 word
- lutsלִיץto mock with proud contempt; a scoffer who sneers at correction
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- to mediate through speech; a go-between who carries words across a gap: an interpreter, envoy, or advocate
- lutsלִיץto mock with proud contempt; a scoffer who sneers at correction
scorning1 word
scorpion2 words
scoundrel2 words
- beliyya'alבְּלִיַּעַלruinous worthlessness: the good-for-nothing quality that makes a person or a plan both useless and destructive
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- destruction: deadly ruin, pictured in poetry as a flood that engulfs a person and drags them toward death
- navalנָבָלthe sacrilegious scoundrel: one whose conduct ruptures the covenantal and communal order, not a person of low intelligence
- beliyya'alבְּלִיַּעַלruinous worthlessness: the good-for-nothing quality that makes a person or a plan both useless and destructive
scour1 word
scourge3 words
scourging2 words
- mastixμάστιξa whip, and the flogging carried out with it
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- a severe bodily affliction pictured as a lash falling on a person: a tormenting disease
- biqqoretבִּקֹּרֶתscourgingnot studied yet
- mastixμάστιξa whip, and the flogging carried out with it
scrape3 words
scream1 word
screech owl1 word
screen1 word
scribe3 words
- sapharסָפַרa scribe: a trained official who keeps records, writes documents, and manages affairs of state or temple
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- to count, and so to recount: to take a tally of things, or to tell them over one by one as a story
- grammateusγραμματεύςa scribe: a Jewish expert in the Law of Moses, trained to read, copy, teach, and rule on Scripture
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- a city clerk: the chief civic official of a Greek city, who presided over the public assembly
- a scribe of the kingdom: a teacher trained in the things of God who draws out both old and new
- sapherסָפִרa scribe: a royal official trained in writing, who handles a government's letters and records and can be its recognized expert in the law
- sapharסָפַרa scribe: a trained official who keeps records, writes documents, and manages affairs of state or temple
script1 word
scripture1 word
scroll7 words
- biblionβιβλίονa written document: a scroll, book, or official paper set down to be read
- sepherסֵפֶרa written document: anything committed to writing, from a letter to a legal deed to a book
- biblosβίβλοςa book: a whole written work, in practice a rolled scroll, named as a complete volume and usually identified by its author or its contents
- kephalisκεφαλίςscrollnot studied yet
- megillahמְגִלָּהa scroll: a rolled length of leather or papyrus written on in columns and unrolled to be read
scum1 word
Scythian1 word
sea4 words
- thalassaθάλασσαthe sea: any large body of water, from the open ocean to an inland lake
- yamיָםa sea: any great stretch of water, whether the open ocean, a particular sea or lake, or a river wide enough to be spoken of as one.
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- west: the direction of the sea, since the Mediterranean lay along Israel's whole western coast.
- pelagosπέλαγοςseanot studied yet
- yamיַםseanot studied yet
sea monster4 words
- tanתַּןjackal: the howling wild dog of the wasteland, named almost always in the plural and almost always to say that a place has been emptied of people
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- the great water creature: the monster Pharaoh is addressed as, lying in the Nile, churning it up and fouling his own rivers
- kētosκῆτοςsea monsternot studied yet
- tanninתַּנִּיןa great serpent or dragon: a large, frightening snakelike creature, most often the sea-monster God masters, but also a venomous land serpent.
- livyatanלִוְיָתָןLeviathan: a vast coiling sea-serpent, the legendary chaos-monster of the deep that only God can master
- tanתַּןjackal: the howling wild dog of the wasteland, named almost always in the plural and almost always to say that a place has been emptied of people
seacoast1 word
seah2 words
seal7 words
- sphragizōσφραγίζωto set a seal on something, so that the seal secures it, marks it as owned, vouches that it is true, or closes it up
- sphragisσφραγίςa seal: the stamped mark, or the signet that makes it, used to keep something closed, mark whose it is, and vouch that it is genuine
- ḥatamחָתַםto seal: to press a seal onto something in order to authorize it, secure it shut, or close it off
- ḥotamחֹתָםa seal or signet: the small engraved stone or ring, worn on the body, that a person pressed onto documents and goods to mark them as his own.
- satamסָתַםto close something off so that nothing can get through it, and so make it inaccessible: from stopping up a well to sealing a message shut
seal up2 words
sealskins1 word
seam1 word
seamless1 word
search9 words
- darashדָּרַשׁto seek something out with care and effort, going after it deliberately until it is found, answered, or settled
- baḥanבָּחַןto examine something closely to find out whether it is genuine, the way an assayer tests metal
- ḥaqarחָקַרto search out thoroughly: to probe something to its farthest reach in order to uncover what is hidden, whether a place, a legal case, a mystery, or a person's inner life
- ḥaphasחָפַשׂto search out: to look through a place, a person, or a matter thoroughly in order to bring to light what is hidden
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- to disguise oneself: to change one's appearance so as not to be recognized
- ḥapharחָפַרto search out: to explore or scout a place to learn what it holds
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- to dig: to break open the ground to make a well, pit, or hole
search out6 words
- ekzēteōἐκζητέωto search something out: to go after a person, a thing, or an answer with real effort, until it is found or understood
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- to require a reckoning: to demand that blood already shed be traced back and answered for
- ḥaqarחָקַרto search out thoroughly: to probe something to its farthest reach in order to uncover what is hidden, whether a place, a legal case, a mystery, or a person's inner life
- exereunaōἐξερευνάωto search outnot studied yet
- turתּוּרto explore or search something out by moving through it, whether scouting a land on foot or searching a matter out in the mind
- ḥaphasחָפַשׂto search out: to look through a place, a person, or a matter thoroughly in order to bring to light what is hidden
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- to disguise oneself: to change one's appearance so as not to be recognized
- ekzēteōἐκζητέωto search something out: to go after a person, a thing, or an answer with real effort, until it is found or understood
searching1 word
seas1 word
- yamיָםa sea: any great stretch of water, whether the open ocean, a particular sea or lake, or a river wide enough to be spoken of as one.
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- west: the direction of the sea, since the Mediterranean lay along Israel's whole western coast.
- yamיָםa sea: any great stretch of water, whether the open ocean, a particular sea or lake, or a river wide enough to be spoken of as one.
seashore1 word
seaside3 words
season7 words
- kairosκαιρόςthe right moment: a stretch of time defined by what it is fit for
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- the appointed time: the moment God has set for a decisive event
- etעֵתthe right or appointed time: the particular moment when something is due, fitting, or destined to happen.
- mo'edמוֹעֵדan appointment fixed in advance: a set time, a sacred festival, the place where God arranged to meet His people, an agreed gathering or signal, or the fixed moment of the end
- chronosχρόνοςtime measured as a stretch: how much of it passes, how long something lasts
- zemanזְמַןa set time: the point or stretch of time marked out for something to happen
- kairosκαιρόςthe right moment: a stretch of time defined by what it is fit for
season with salt1 word
- malaḥמָלַחto salt something: to sprinkle or rub salt onto it, whether an offering set on God's altar or a newborn's skin
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- to vanish away: to dissolve or be torn to nothing, said of the sky wearing out
- malaḥמָלַחto salt something: to sprinkle or rub salt onto it, whether an offering set on God's altar or a newborn's skin
seasoning1 word
seat6 words
- kathizōκαθίζωto sit down: to lower oneself onto a seat or mount, and so to take one's place
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- to seat someone, to set or install a person in a position
- to settle, to stay or remain in a place
- thronosθρόνοςthrone: the formal seat that marks supreme authority, and by extension the reign exercised from it
- kisseכִּסֵּאan elevated seat of honor: the chair that marks who holds authority, above all a king's throne
- moshavמוֹשָׁבa place where someone sits or lives: a seat, a settlement, or the act of dwelling there
- kathedraκαθέδραseatnot studied yet
- kathizōκαθίζωto sit down: to lower oneself onto a seat or mount, and so to take one's place
seat of honor1 word
seats of honor1 word
Seba1 word
Secacah1 word
second5 words
- deuterosδεύτεροςsecond: next after the first in order, rank, or time
- sheniשֵׁנִיsecond: the one that comes next after the first in a sequence, in time, or in rank
- mishnehמִשְׁנֶהsecond: the one ranking next after the first, in position, birth, office, or grade
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- double: twice as much of something, a doubled amount
- a copy: a written duplicate of a document
- the Second Quarter: a district of Jerusalem
- vashniוַשְׁנִי`second`not studied yet
- tinyanתִּנְיָןsecondnot studied yet
second time1 word
second-first1 word
secondary wife1 word
- pilegeshפִּלֶגֶשׁa legally recognized secondary wife: a woman in a genuine but lower-ranking marriage bond
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- a male sexual partner: a man used for sexual purposes (masculine extension, Ezekiel only)
- pilegeshפִּלֶגֶשׁa legally recognized secondary wife: a woman in a genuine but lower-ranking marriage bond
secondly1 word
secrecy2 words
secret8 words
- kruptōκρύπτωto hide: to put someone or something out of sight, or to keep a thing from being seen, known, or noticed.
- mustērionμυστήριονa secret of God's purpose, hidden in past ages and now opened up to his people
- kruptosκρυπτόςhidden, concealed, out of sight; by extension, done in secret or kept from view.
- seterסֵתֶרa cover: a place or condition of being hidden, whether for shelter or for secrecy
- sodסוֹדan intimate inner circle and the confidential exchange within it: the trusted company, its private counsel, and the secret or friendship that binds it together
secret arts1 word
- latלָאטsecret arts: the hidden craft by which trained specialists produce effects nobody can account for
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- secrecy: the cover under which something is done so that nobody notices it happening
- latלָאטsecret arts: the hidden craft by which trained specialists produce effects nobody can account for
secret chamber1 word