SEMACHIAH (>.t;59 'J' has sustained').— The name of a Korahite family of gatekeepers, 1 Ch 26' (B ^apx^ii, A Sa;iax'as). It is not improbable that the same name should be substituted for Ismachiah ('■"'""V 'J" sustaineth' ; B ^a/xaxeii, A 2a^Laxili) in 2 Ch 31". See Gray, HPi\ 291, 295.
SEMEI (B Zfiutt, A le/iel), 1 Es 9«'=Shimei of the sons of Hashum, Ezr 10^.
SEMEIA3 (B SfAitetas, sA Zt^ela^ ; AV Semei), Ad. Est 11' (LXX, A') = Shimei, the ancestor of Mordecai ; of. Est 2°.
SEMEIN (B SfM"'". A Xefuel ; AV Semei), Lk S'". — The father of Mattatbias in the genealogy of Jesus Christ.
SEMEIS (B Zevaftt, A ZtfuU ; AV Semis), 1 Es 9'" = Shimei the Levite, Ezr 10^.
SENAAH (nNJP; B laari, Tavavir, A Zavavd. Ztyyad, 'Kciv ; Senari). — Amongst the ' people of Israel' who returned from tlie Captivitj' with Zerubhabel were the 'children of Sennah.' Their numbers were 3630 according to Ezr '2", and 393(1 according to Neh 7". The name occurs again, with the article, hof-^enaah (Neh 3'), in connexion with the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. The people of Senaah built the Fish -gate, and are mentioned next in order after the people of Jericho (cf. Ezr 2"). From this it may perhaps be inferred that Senaah was in the vicinity ot Jericho. In thU case it may possibly be the village Mngdnl- senna, lAcySa.Xatrri, which Eusebius and Jerome [nnom.) place 7 M.P. north of .lericho.
In the lists in 1 Es. (5**) the name is given as
436
SENATE
SEPHAK
Sanaaa (AV Annaas ; B Za/j-i, A Sai-dos ; Anaas), and the number of the children as 33.S0.
C. \V. Wilson. SENATE is the renderin<; of yepov<ria in Ac 5-', where 'all tlie senate of tlie children of Israel' appears to be epexegetical of the preceding 'council' (aw^dpiov). See also Ephesus, vol. i. p. 722", and Saxhedrin. It is the Jewish ' senate ' that is meant likewise by yepovala in 2 -Mac 1'" 4". Tlie allusions to the Roman senate in 1 Mac S""- will be found handled in art. Rome, p. 306".
SENEH (rrj9 ; 2fwi£ ; Sene).— One of two jagged
Soints, or ' teeth of the cliff,' — the other being iozez, between which the ' passage of Michmash ' ran. It is mentioned in connexion with the exploit of Jonathan and his ariiiourbearer, and was to the south of and nearer to Geba than Bozez ( 1 S 14''). Seneh was possibly so called front the thorns (cf. njp of Ex 3^-*, Dt 33'») which grew upon it (cf. ' the plain of thorns,' &Kav6Cliv auXiiv, near the village of Gabathsaul, Jos. BJ v. ii. 1). The name is retained in the Wddy Suweinlt, on the right bank of which, not far from Jeba, the rock Seneh must have been. A good description of the locality is given by Conder {Tent-]Vork, ii. 112- 114). See also Bobmson [BBP" i. 441).
C. W. Wilson. SENIR (TJ^ ; "Eafdp; Sanir). —The Amorite name of Mt. Ilermon (Dt 3"), and one of the few Amorite words preserved in the Bible. In 1 Ch 5^, Ca 4', Senir is apparently distinguished from Mt. Hermon, and probably desiOTated a particular part of the Hermon range (so Briver, Buhl). In Ezelviel's lamentation for Tyre (27°) the builders are said to have made planks of the ' fir trees of Senir,' and in 1 Chronicles .Senir is given as one of the limits to which the children of Manasseh over- flowed from Bashan. In an inscription of Shal- maneser, Hazael of Damascus is said to have made Mt. Sanir, the top of the mountain opposite Lebanon, into a fortress (Schrader, KAT' 210). The Arab geo^aphers, as late as the 14th cent., also called Anti- Lebanon JcJ>d Santr, and attached the name more particularly to that portion of the range near Damascus and between Baalbek and Hums. Tliere was al.so a district of Sanir in which Baalbek was situated (Guy le Strange, Pal. under the Moslems, 32, 78, 79, 295-298). See, further, art. Hermon. C. W. Wilson.
SENNACHERIB (annjci, ttwaxvpfll^, Assyr. .Sjn- akhi-erba, ' the Moon-god has increased the breth- ren,' from which we may infer that he wa.s not the eldest son of his father, Sargon). — Sennacherib succeeded Sargon on the 12th of Ab, B.C. 705. His first campaign was against Babylonia, where Merodach-baladan (or another prince of tlie same name ) had reappeared. (See, however, Merodach- BALADAN). After a reign of six months the latter was forced to lly for his life. Sennacherib made a certain Bel-ibni king of Babylon, and then turned against the Kassi or Kossieans in the western mountains of Elam. After this he swept Ellipi, north of Elam, with fire and sword. In B.C. 701 came the campaign against Pale.stine, which had rebelled after Sargon's death. Lulia (EUikeus), king of Tyre, Hed to Cyprus, and Sidon and other Phuinician cities were saiked by the Assyrians, Ethbaal being appointed king of the country. Ashdod, Amnion, Aloab, and Edom now Bent tribute, Judah with the dependent Philistine cities of Ashkelon and Ekron alone holding out. Ashkelon and Ekron were captured, and Hezekiah was compelled to restore to the throne of the latter city the anti-Jewish prince Padi, who had been imjirisoned in Jerusalem. The Egyptians, now ruled by the Ethiopian Tirhakah, came to