Bible Words



This List, which is full of Bible Words, gives brief explanations of words in the Authorised Version describing unfamiliar objects, animals, plants, weights, measures, money, and words no longer in everyday use, or now used with different meaning. This word list is endless. We have done our best to collect all the words which could be found in the Bible. You are welcome to forward to us any new word which you want to be added in this list of words.

Here is the list of words beginning with S.

  1. Sackbut : pipe or lyre of elder wood

  2. Sardine : a red stone from Sardius

  3. Sardius : a red stone, carnelian

  4. Satyr : male goat

  5. Save : excepting

  6. Savour : taste, think, understand

  7. Scall : skin disease, sore

  8. Scant : skimped, meagre

  9. Scrip : bag

  10. Seared : scorched (literally cauterised)

  11. Seatward : toward the mercy seat

  12. Secure : free from anxiety

  13. Securely : free from anxiety

  14. Seethe : boil

  15. See to : look upon

  16. Serjeant : officer carrying a staff as a symbol of office

  17. Servitor : serving man, attendant

  18. Set forward : oversee

  19. Set on : attack

  20. Settle : base, pedestal, ledge

  21. Set to his seal : affixed his seal

  22. Severally : separately, individually

  23. Shambles : meat-market

  24. Shamefacedness : a sense of shame

  25. Sheepcote : pasturage, sheep pens

  26. Shekel : about ½ ounce or 14 grammes

  27. Sherd : fragment

  28. Shipping : took shipping, they got into a boats

  29. Shittim : thorny acacia tree

  30. Shittah : thorny acacia tree

  31. Shroud : cover, shelter

  32. Silly : simple, foolish

  33. Silverlings : silver coins

  34. Simple : ignorant, without guile, innocent

  35. Sincere : pure

  36. Sith : since

  37. Sixscore : 120

  38. Skill : to know how, to be skilled

  39. Sleight : deceitfulness, slyness

  40. Slime : mud, bitumen

  41. Snuff dishes : pans for wick-trimmings

  42. Sod : boiled

  43. Sodering : soldering

  44. Sojourn : dwell for a time

  45. Sometimes : formerly, at one time, once

  46. Sort : manner

  47. Sottish : foolish

  48. Spoken for : asked in marriage

  49. Spring : dawn

  50. Stacte : aromatic gum from a tree

  51. Stand upon : attack

  52. Stay : support

  53. Stead : place

  54. Stomacher : beautiful dress

  55. Stout : hard, bold

  56. Stoutness : hardness, boldness

  57. Strait : narrow, strict

  58. Straitened : limits, restricted

  59. Straitly : strictly, closely

  60. Straitness : distress

  61. Strake sail : lowered sail

  62. Strakes : streaks

  63. Strawed : strewed, scattered

  64. Stricken in age (years) : aged

  65. Strike hands : clasp hands concluding an agreement

  66. Subtil : cunning, insight, perception

  67. Subtilty : cunning, insight, perception

  68. Supplicant : one praying or pleading

  69. Surfeiting : sickness from a over-eating or drinking

  70. Sycamine : mulberry



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