There are three other NT passages where an allusion to the Shekinah is probable, though exegetes are divided on the matter. Ko 6' ' Christ was raised from the dead by means of (oid) the glory of the Father.' 'Glory' may of course here mean 'glorious power,' as commentators say ; but, with the passage from the Midrash before us, in which the Shekinah is said to release cap- tives from Sheol, it seems to the present writer probable that St. Paul was thinking of the She- kinah piercing with its radiance tiie gloom of Sheol, and co-operating with God to release the Divine captive from the power ot Satan and ' the gates of Sheol.' The second disputed passage is 1 P 4'^ ri TTjs 56^77? Kai rb tov O^oH TrvcG/ia, which UV renders, ' The (Spirit) of glory and the Spirit of God,' where Bengel is probably correct in re- garding Sb^t)! as an ajipcllation of Christ. If this be so, it helps to elucidate our third passage, viz.
Ja 2' T7}V TTiartV TOV KVpioV 1]f.lulV 'llJffOU XpiaTOV T^S
66{j;s, which Mayor correctly renders, 'the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the i!hc/,inah.' The context refers to an assemlilj' of Christians, where the Shekinah was believed to be present. Thus interpieted, the passage blends together Mt 18™ and tlie words cited above from Pir/cc Aboth, iden- tifying Jesus with the Shekinah.
LiTBRATURB. — Weber, Lehrm d« Talmnd (2nd ed. under title Jud. Theol. au/ Grutul dct Talmud, etc); Ofrorvr, U rchriiUnthiim, i. 301 IT. ; Laiit^en, Judenthutn zur Zrit Christi, 201 IT. ; Levy'8 and Buxtori'n Lexicoiu ; 0. Taylor, Sai/iiujt nf thi Jewith Father,\ p. 43. J. T. MaI£.SI1.VLI,.
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SHELAH (n'-s).—i. The youngest son of Jmlah by Shua, Gn 3's»- "• »• »" 46" (A l.r,\w^. Uic. i:'W), Nu 26'-" ''"I (BA and Luc. SrjXiiv, F i:7)XciM), 1 *-» - (StiXui-) 4=1 (BA 27)Xii/x, Lui--- SiXii"'). lie gave his name to the family of the Shelanites (•;?-?, Sfifios o SiiXu^f)'), Nu 26^" C'''. Probably 'the Shelanite should be read also for 'the Shilonite Ci^iO or •^■^^) of Neh U' (Luc. STjXwei, B AtjXu^^ X ATiXui-ei, A 'HXuW) and 1 Ch d^ (27)Xuv(«)0. 2. (nSs-) the son or (LXX) grandson of Arpachshad ami father of Eber, Gn lO'^'"" ll'»("i- ■^- '», 1 Ch 118.24 (VaXd, Luc. in Gn 10-" in second occurrence ^aXSs), Lk 3" (::a\i).
SHELAH, The Pool OF{n^^n nji?; B Ko\vii^-^epa tQv Kuoiuv, X + ToC SiXwdft, Luc. t, Kpnvn ''."^ ^/^"l^ ' Piscina ,St/oe).— This uame occuis only in Neh A , where it is given in AV as ' Siloah.' ' Shelal.i la probably a corrupt form of Siloam, the "'O'lfn SUwan. See Siloam, Pool of. Perhaps in Neh 3" we should punctuate o?*Ci as in Is 8".
C. VV. Wilson. SHELANITES.— See Shelah.
SHELEMIAH (.toS; ).— 1. (B ZcXfftii, A SfXf/x/os) One of the sons of Bani, who married a ' strange wife in the time of Ezra, Ezr lO^" ; called Selemias in 1 Es 9^. 2. (B TtXe/i'i. S TeXe^'as) Father of Hananiah, who restored part of the wall of Jeru- salem, Neh 3^". His son is perhaps ' Hananiah, one of the apothecaries' (Neh 3*, AV 'son of one of the apoth.'), i.e. makers of perfumes, who restored another portion of the wall. 3. A priest who was appointed by Nehemiah to be one of the treasurers over the treasuries, to distribute the Levitical tithes, Neh 13". i. The father of Jehucal or Jucal in the time of Zedekiah, Jer 37', 38' ; in the latter passage his name appears in the longer form in-oW. S. The fatlier of Iriiah, the captain of the ward who arrested Jeremiah as a deserter to the Chalda;ans, Jer 37". 6. (•.■^:^^s^ B Zo.\a^l(L6., A 2e- Xe^id) 1 Ch 26" = Meshelemiah, MeshuUam, or Shallum, the head of a family of porters. 7. An- other of the sons of Bani who married a ' strange wife in the time of Ezra, Ezr 10*'. 8. Ancestor of the Jehudi who lived in the time of Jehoiakim, Jer 36'''. 9. (LXX om.) Son of Abdeel, and one of those sent by Jehoiakim to take Baruch and Jeremiah, Jer SO"*. H. St. J. Tuackeray.
SHELEPH (I'j?' [pause] ; LXX A 2aX^./>).— Son of .loktan, On 'lO-», 1 Ch P°. The word is evi- dently identical with the Arabic salaf, salif, etc., which figure as the names of several places in Arabia ; Yakut mentions a place called ' the two Salafs,' quoting for it a ver-se of a pre-Moham- medan poet ; places called Salf, Salif, and Salnfah are noticed in the S. Arabian geography of Ham- dani ; and a province called Salif is. mentioned by Mukaddasi among those of Yemen (p. 'JO). The Arabic genealogists further discovered a sub- division of the Himyarites which had the name Sulaf, and which they identified with the son of Joktan (Taj al-arus, vi. 143). The Arabic salaf means simply ' ancestor,' while salif or silf means ' a sister's husband ' ; there would therefore be no improbability in the name in the text being not geographical but personal. Some further guesses are "recorded by DQlmann (Genesis, ad luc).
D. S. Makgoliouth. SHELESH (»'?!> ; B Se/xiJ, A 2eXX^s, Luc. ^iXen). —An Asherite, 'l Ch 7".
SHELOMI (-^V; B SeXfM*' I><M sup ras B'], A.F 2fX<M').— father of an Asherite prince, Nu 34".