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• Eber

  Eber is a descendant of Noah who appears in the genealogy of Shem in Genesis. He is the son of Salah and the father of Peleg and Joktan. His name is commonly associated with the origin of the word "Hebrew."

• Shelah (Biblical Figure)

  Shelah is a descendant of Shem who appears in the genealogies of Genesis. He was the son of Arphaxad and the father of Eber, and he forms one link in the line running from Noah to Abraham.

• Arphaxad

  Arphaxad was the son of Shem, the son of Noah. In the genealogies of Genesis he is one link in the line running from Shem to Abraham, and his name also appears in the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke.

• Sarah

  Sarah is the wife of Abraham and the mother of Isaac in the Book of Genesis. Originally named Sarai, she remained childless into old age and, according to the biblical account, bore Isaac at the age of ninety in fulfillment of God's promise.

• Selah

  Selah is a Hebrew word that appears in the Old Testament book of Psalms and in Habakkuk 3. Many interpreters regard it as a marker related to singing or recitation, but its exact meaning remains unknown.

• Salamis

  Salamis was a port city on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, where Paul and Barnabas first preached the gospel on their first missionary journey (Acts 13:5).

• Sarah Thistlethwaite

  Sarah Thistlethwaite (1877–1937) was the wife of Charles Parham, an early leader of the American Pentecostal movement. She joined her husband in itinerant evangelism, led the Apostolic Faith movement after his death, and compiled his biography.

• Sarah Barry

  Sarah Barry (born 1930) is a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS, the Southern Presbyterian Church). In 1961 she co-founded University Bible Fellowship (UBF) in Gwangju with Samuel Lee (Lee Chang-woo), and in 2002 she became the second general director of UBF worldwide.

• Sarah Hall Boardman

  Sarah Hall Boardman (1803–1845) was an American Baptist missionary. In Burma (present-day Myanmar) she helped establish schools and churches among the Karen people, and after the death of her first husband, George Boardman, she married Adoniram Judson.

• Shealtiel

  Shealtiel is a biblical figure recorded as the son of Jehoiachin (Jeconiah), the king of Judah who was carried captive to Babylon, and as the father of Zerubbabel, who led the rebuilding of the temple. His name also appears in the genealogies of Jesus in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.

• Sela-hammahlekoth

  Sela-hammahlekoth is the name of a rock in the wilderness of Maon where David, pursued by Saul, narrowly escaped capture. It appears only once, in 1 Samuel 23:28.

• Higgaion

  Higgaion is a Hebrew word that appears together with "Selah" in Psalm 9:16. It is thought to be either a musical term or a word indicating meditation, but its precise meaning is uncertain.

• Salmon

  Salmon is an Old Testament figure of the tribe of Judah, the son of Nahshon and the father of Boaz. His name appears in the genealogies of Ruth and 1 Chronicles and in the genealogies of Jesus in Matthew and Luke.

• Serah (Daughter of Asher)

  Serah was the daughter of Asher, son of Jacob. She is named only in the genealogies of Genesis 46, Numbers 26, and 1 Chronicles 7, and later Jewish tradition added many stories about her.

• Pastoral Honorarium

  A pastoral honorarium is money that a church pays regularly to its ministers, such as the senior pastor, associate pastors, and evangelists (jeondosa), to support their living. It is often referred to simply as an "honorarium" (sarye-bi).

• Hagar and Ishmael

  Hagar was Sarah's Egyptian maidservant, who bore Abraham a son, Ishmael, Abraham's firstborn. Their story appears in Genesis 16, 21, and 25, and Paul uses them allegorically in Galatians 4.

• Hebrews 11:8–12

  Hebrews 11:8–12 presents Abraham and Sarah as examples of faith: trusting God's promise, they set out, lived in tents, and received offspring in old age. The passage is frequently cited in discussions of obedience and trust in God's promises.

• Genesis 23

  Genesis 23 recounts the death of Sarah at the age of 127 in Hebron and Abraham's purchase of the field and cave of Machpelah from Ephron the Hittite for four hundred shekels of silver, where he then buried Sarah.

• Keturah

  Keturah was the wife Abraham took in the narrative that follows Sarah's death. She bore him six sons—Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah—whose descendants are presented as the ancestors of several eastern tribes, including the Midianites.

• Cave of Machpelah

  The Cave of Machpelah was the cave in a field before Mamre, near Hebron, that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite in order to bury his wife Sarah. It became the burial place of the patriarchs and their wives.