Shoe-latchet. See Latchet ; Shoe.
Shoes, PuTTiNG-OFF OF. In the ancient Christian Church a few (for it was not a general custom) took off their shoes as they entered the church. Cassian (Institut. i, 10) observes of the Egyptian monks that tliey always wore sandals instead of shoes, and took these off when they went to celebrate or receive the holy mysteries, thinking themselves obliged to do so from a literal interpretation of the command to Moses, " Put off thv shoes from off thy feet," etc. Others ob- served the custom only among those people who con- sidered it an indication of reverence, as it was in East- ern nations in the time of Moses and Joshua. See Bing- ham, Christ. Antiq. bk. viii, ch. 10, § 7. See Shoe.
Shohaiu. See Onyx.
Sho'ham (Heb. id. cnb', onyx, as in Gen. ii, 12; Sept. Sofi^t v. r. 'Icroaji/), second named of the four sons of the jMerarite Levite Jaaziah, who were employed about the ark by David (1 Chron, xxiv, 27). B.C. 1043.
Sho'mer (Heb. Skomer', ^W:!, keeper, as often; Sept. Sdjjtu'/p v.r. 'S.a^Sjp, etc.), a variation for the names of two Hebrews.
1. Second named of the three sons of Heber, an Ash- erite (1 Chron. vii, 32 ) ; called Shameij (q. v.) in ver. 34, where his sons are enumerated.
2. The father of Jehozabad, who slew king Joash (2 Kings xii; 21); in the jiarallel passage in 2 Chron. xxiv, 26, the name is converted into the feminine form Siii.Mi{iTir (q. v.), who is further described as a Moal)- itess. This variation may have originated in the dubi- ous gender of the preceding name Shimeath, which is also made feminine by the chronicler. Others suppose that in Kings the father is named, and in Chronicles the mother.
Shook, Jefferson, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Madison Countv, Mo., IMay 20, 1820; was converted and joined the M. E. Church in 1838. He was licensed to preach Sept. 18, 1841, and the same year was admitted into the Arkansas
Conference. In 1844 he was transferred to the Texas Conference, and at its division in 1«45 he fell to the East Texas Conference. About 1854 he became supernumer- ary, and, with the exception of one year, held that re- lation until liis death, Dec. 20, 1872. See Minnies of Annual Conferences of the M. K. Ch., South, 1873, p. 803.
Shoo-king, one of the Chinese sacred books. It is chiefly of a historical character, commencing with the reign of the Yaou, one of the very earliest emperors, supposed to have been contemporary with Noah, and stretches onward to the time of Confucius. This work is considered to be of the highest authority', containing many valuable moral and political maxims. On account of the vast influence of the IShoo-kimj over the public mind, the utmost efforts were made to suppress it during the reign of Che-huang-te, B.C. about 240. As edited by Confucius, the Shoo-kim/ throws much light upon tlie early religion of the Chinese, showing that Shaman- ism (q, V.) was then the prevailing form of religion, — Gardner, Faiths of the Woi-ld, s, v,
Sho'phach (Heb. Shojjhak', "SVlJ, prob. a varia- tion of iShobak ; Sept. Sw^fi;^ and ^njliax v. r. 'Euxpd^ and ^(jjcjicKp ; Vulg. Sophach), the general of Hadarezar (1 Chron. xix, 16, 18), elsewhere (2 Sam. x, 16) called Shobach (q. v.).
Sho'phan (Heb. Shophan', "|STc3, prob. i. q. Sha- phan; Sept.2o0ap; Samar, D'SIIJ; Vulg. iSop^dr), given in the A. V. as one of the fortified towns on the east of Jordan which were taken possession of and rebuilt by the tribe of (iad (Numb, xxxii, 35); but probably a mere affix (significant, according to some, oi bareness) to the second Atroth, to distinguish it from the former one, not an independent place. See Atakoth.
Shore is the rendering in the A. V. of three Heb. and two Greek words. 1. T\^U, choph (so called from being chafed by the waves [Gesen. ], or enclosed [Furst] ; com p. Engl, core, and the modern town Chaifa), a road- stead (Judg. V, 17 ; Jer. xlvii, 7 ; " coast" in Josh, ix, 1 ; Ezek. xxv, 10; "haven" in (ien, xlix, 13; "side" in Dent, i, 7); aiyiaXoc, a beach (Matt, xiii, 2, 48; John xxi,4; Acts xxi, 5; xxvii, 39, 40). 2. HJtp, kutseh, the extremity of the land (Josh, xv, 2; elsewhere "brim," " brink," etc), 3, nS'iJ, saphuh, a lip (as often, some- times " brink," " bank," etc) ; ■)(hKoc, the lip (as usually, "shore" only in Heb. xi, 12), See Sea.
Shoshan'nim (Heb. Shoshunnim', a'^idb, lilies, as often), a technical term, found as such in the phrase "To the chief musician upon Shoshannim," which is a musical direction to the leader of the temple-choir that occurs in Psa. xlv, Ixix, and most probably indicates the melodj' "after" or "in the manner of" (3^, 'al. A, V. " upon") which the Psalms were to be sung. See also StiosH annim-eduth. As " Shoshannim" literally signi- fies " lilies," it has been suggested that the word denotes lily-shaped instruments of music (Simonis, Lex. s, v.), perhaps cymbals (rather trumpets), and this view ap- pears to be adopted by De Wette {Die Psalmen, p, 34). Hengstenberg gives to it an enigmatical interpretation, as indicating "the subject or subjects treated, as lilies figuratively for bride in xlv; the delightful consolations and deliverances experienced in Ixix, etc," (Davidson, Introd. ii, 246), which Dr. Davidson very truly char- acterizes as "a most improbable fancy." The Sept. and Vulg. have in both Psalms hn'tp tCo%i aWoiu)^i]<Toiih'io>> and pro lis qni inimutabuntur respectively, reading ap- parently Dorr's hv. Ben Zeb (Otsar Ilashshor. s. v.) regards it as an instrument of |)salmody, and Junius and Tremellius, after Kimchi, render it " hexachorda," an instrument with six strings, referring it to the root shi'sh, "six," and this is approved by Eichhorn in his edition of Simonis,— Smith, See Psalms.