Snuff-dish (!nrin^, machtah, Exod. xxv, 38 ; xxvii, 23; Sept. vTTi)^tp.a\ Vulg. vasum; elsewhere " censer" or " fire-pan"), a ti-ay for catching the snuff of the lamps of the golden candelabrum ; resembling a tire-pan or shovel, as the same Hebrew word elsewhere means (Lev. xvi. 12; Exod. xxvii, 3; xxxviii, 3; Numb, xvi, 6 sq. ; 1 Kings vii, 50, etc.). See Candlestick.
Snuffer (n'l^T'D, mezammereth, a cutting instru- ment; 1 Kings vii, 50; 2 Kings xii, 14; xxv, 14; 2 Chron. iv, 22, Jer. Iii, 18; D'^HpIp^, melkacha'ijini, Exod. xxxvii, 23; tongs, as elsewhere rendered), an im- plement for removing the snuff from the lamps of the sa- cred candelabrum. Judging from the latter of the above Hebrew terms, it was double, but not of the scissors form. Instruments like ours for cutting the wick of a lamp were not anciently known, unless the instrument represented in the cut, copied from one in the British Museum, may be supposed to have been used for such a purpose, but a sort of tweezers was employed to draw up the wick
Snuffers and Pincers.
when necessarj', and for pinching off any superfluou.f l)ortion. Every one is aware that lamps when properly replenished with oil do not need snuffing, like candles. The sort of tweezers we liave mentioned is still used in the I'^ast for trimming lamps. Snuffers are only known in those jiarts of \\'estern Asia where candles are par- I ially used during winter. Smiffers are candle, not lamp, instruments; and candles are but little used in any part of Asia, the temjierature being generally too warm. See Candi.kstick.
Snyder, George Niver, a minister of the Re- formed Dutch Church, was born in lloncsd.ale. Pa., March 27, 1844. He graduated at Hamilton College, N. Y., in 1868, and entered Unicm Theological Semi- nary, wlu^rc he graduated in 1871. He w.as ordained, and became a staled sujiply of the Church at Elmsford, N. \., and afier remaining one year became pastor of
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the Church at White Tlaius, N. Y., where he died, Nov. 2, 1872. (W. P. S.)
Snyder, Henry (1), a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born near Schellsburgh, Bedford Co., Pa., Sept. 16. 1813. He was converted, and united with the Church Sept. 20, 1831. He was admitted on trial into the Pittsburgh Conference in 1848, ordained deacon in 1850, and elder in 1852. He continued in ac- tive labor until his death, Oct. 3, 18G1. As a preacher he was eminently successfid; gracious revivals attended his ministry wherever he went. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1862, p. 43.
Snyder, Henry (2), a Presbyterian minister, was bom in Stephensburg, Frederick Co., Va., Dec. 2, 1814. He graduated at .Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa., in 1838, studied theology privately, was licensed by the Ohio Presbytery, and in 1850 was ordained by the same presbytery as an evangelist. In 1841 he was appointed adjunct professor of mathematics in Jefferson College, Pa.; in 1843, professor of mathematics; in 1850, re- signed; in 1851, professor of Latin in Centre College, Danville, Ky. ; in 18.53, removed to Bridgeton, N. J.; in 1854, to Winchester, Va. ; in 1856 was stated supjily to the Church at Amelia Court-house, Va. ; in 1857, professor of mathematics in Hampden Sidney College, Prince Edward Co.. where he remained until the out- break of the war, when he and his family were compelled to abandon everything and seek refuge in the North. After a time he obtained a chaplaincy, and was stationed at Fort Richmond, S. I., New York Harbor. Here he remained until he was mustered out of the service, and was making arrangements to settle in Sharpsburg, Pa., to resume the work of teaching, when, on the evening of Feb. 22, 1866, he was drowned. Mr. Snyder was well read in English literature, a remarkable conversational- ist, and possessed of a clear and logical mind, quick in discerimient. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1867, p. 198. (J. L. S.)
Snyder, Peter, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Schoharie, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1814. He graduated at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1836 ; studied theology one year at Princeton Seminary, N. J., and two j'ears at Union Seminar\-, New York city; was licensed by New York Third Presbytery in 1839, and in 1840 was ordained by Rockaway Presbytery, and after- wards labored two j-ears at Whippany, N. J. ; two years at New Rochelle, N. Y. , then at Cairo, (ireene Co., N. Y. ; and the remainder of his ministerial service, six- teen J'ears, at Watertown, N. Y., where he died, Dec. 13, 1863. ]\Ir. Snyder was a thorough scholar, and his read- ing extensive, few men being better versed in current literature, and none more devoted to the moral, religious, and educational movements of the day. From his birth he suffered from an optical infirmity, but. altlnnigh never using his own or another's pen in preparing for the pul- pit, his discourses were always systematic, well digested, and specially eloquent. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Al- manac, 1864J p. 323. (.1. L. S.)
So (Heb. So, Xio ; Sept. Sj/ywp ; Vulg. Sua), a king of Egj'pt whom Hoshea, the last king of Israel, called to his help against the Assyrians under Shalmaneser, evidently intending to become the vassal of Egypt, and therefore making no present, as had been the j^earh^ custom, to the king of Assyria (2 Kings xvii, 4). B.C. 726. The consequence of this step, which seems to have been forbidden by the prophets, who about this period are constantly warning the people against trusting in Egj'pt and Ethiopia, was the imprisonment of Hoshea, the taking of Samaria, and the carrying captive of the ten tribes. See Isuaei,, Kingdom ok. It has lieen questioned whether this So was the same with Sabaco (Manetiio Sabacon'), the first king of the Ethiopian dy- nasty in Upper Egypt, or his son and successor Sevechus (Manetho Sebic/ias), the second king of the same dynas- ty, and the immediate predecessor of Tirhakah. Winer hesitates between tliem, and Gesenius concludes for the