Saraias (Hastings' Dictionary)

1. (2apala5) 1 Es 5», Seraiah, the high priest of ZedekiaU's time, fatlier of Jehozadak, and grandfather of Jeshua (cf. 1 Ch 6»). 2. inarms] 2 Es 1', the fatlier of Ezra. It is uncertain whether he is the same person as the AZAR.VIAS of 1 Es 8 , where the following Zechkias takes the place of Azaraias of 2 Es 1'. S4RAMEL, RV As4ramel (A Sopa^A, SV 'Aaap- au.i\ ; ^6-f(r«m5/).-Saran,el appears to be a worn °n the original Heb. or Syr. text of 1 Mac. which the transtator did not miderstand when pre- paring the existing Or. version. Nearly all cmn- mentators adopt the readmg Asaramel. By some, Sding Lutfier, it is beTd to be a place-name and to have been the spot at which the assembled Jews made Simon Maccaba^us 'their leader and W^h priest- (1 Mac 14=«-«). By others various reftorations of the Hebrew text have been pro- poid -1. {We).9ar:am.'el, ' and prince of the people ^f God,' understanding this as a tit e of Simon The original we, 'and,' is supposed to have been corrupte'd into be, ' i°\ This view first pro- nosed by Wemsdorf (1747 , is adopted bj Scholz. S^^mm%chiirer, Z6ckler,,Kautzsch, Kraetzschma^ and others. 2. {Bc)shdar-am-d, 'at the gate of the people of God,' or-3. j^'f c^-"'""^- • ^° the court of the people of Go<i (Ewald, e «i.). 4. A R S. Kennedy (Expos. Times Aug. 1900, p ■523ff.) proposes either (a) ba'azar [ath lisra] el. Pin the cEurt of Israel,' wh ch was incorre.tly decil>hered baYcmr-ham-'el, the letters n and • and'o and c being very like each other m the olde^ Phcen. characters; °\(b) baa?art.am.a in ^ assembly of the people of God. He P^-fers^the former. SARAPH {1-17 ; B Soui, A T.ap6.<p).-A descendant of Shelah, 1 Ch 4=". SARCHED0NO3.-The form in which the name Esae-haddon (Which Bee) appears in To l- ihe misspelling ' Sarchedonus ' ot the AV has been retailed, surely inadvertently by the RV. Ihe correct form is ' Sacherdonus ' (BS Zax^pSoy6s. A Zaxff-Sd", in v.'^ -Zax^pSopocis). QxcniNV—At, Rev 4' AV renders tfuum \iOip .aSy MiTe a sardine stone.' The reading is Zt of the TR. It is rightly -l-'^^-f ^y -o^-n editors, on the overwhelmmg '-^"t 'ority of ^AQ. etc., which read oapSiv i K) has like a sardius . see, therefore, Sardius, below.