Sceptre

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SCEPTRE, as tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of shçbel, may stand either for a short ornamental sceptre such as appears in some representations of the Assyrian king, or for a long staff reaching to the ground, which characterizes some portrayals of the Persian monarchs. The long sceptre is simply an ornamented staff, the short one is a development of the Club or mace. On Gen_49:10 See Lawgiver and Shiloh. On the difficulty of approaching the presence of the Persian kings referred to in Est_4:11, cf. also Herod. iii. 118, 140.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


shebet. ("Rod or staff of a ruler".) In Jdg_5:14 translated "out of Zebulun marchers with the staff of the writer" or numberer, who levied and mustered the troops, so a leader in general. 2Ki_25:19, "principal scribe of the host which mustered the people"; 2Ch_26:11; Psa_2:9, "thou shalt break them with a rod of iron." Whoever will not obey Thy loving sceptre, as the Good Shepherd, shall be crushed with an iron sceptre (Mat_21:44; Dan_2:34-35; Dan_2:44). The iron kingdom Christ's iron sceptre shall break as clay. Psa_125:3, "the sceptre of the wicked (world power; "Persia" at this time) shall not rest (permanently) upon the lot of the righteous," namely, on the Holy Land: a psalm written after the return from Babylon. Contrast Christ's "right sceptre" (Psa_45:6; Isa_11:3-4).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Sceptre. This word originally meant a rod or staff. It was, thence, specifically applied to the shepherd's crook, Lev_27:32; Mic_7:14, and to the wand or sceptre of a ruler. The allusions to it are all of a metaphorical character, and describe it simply as one of the insignia of supreme power. Gen_49:10. We are, consequently, unable to describe the article from any biblical notice; but we may infer that it was, probably, made of wood. The sceptre of the Persian monarch is described as "golden" that is, probably of massive gold. Est_4:11.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


a word derived from the Greek, properly signifies, a rod of command, a staff of authority, which is supposed to be in the hands of kings, governors of a province, or of the chief of a people, Gen_49:10; Num_24:17; Isa_14:5. The sceptre is put for the rod of correction, and for the sovereign authority that punishes and humbles, Psa_2:9; Pro_22:15. The term sceptre is frequently used for a tribe, probably because the prince of each tribe carried a sceptre, or a wand of command, to show his dignity.
Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Richard Watson
PRINTER 1849.


Sceptre
(Hebrews שֵׁבֶט, she'bet), in its primary signification, like the equivalent σκῆπτρον (for the root of the Hebrew and Greek words seems identical; comp. also English shaft), denotes a staff of wood (Eze_19:11), about the height of a man, which the ancient kings and chiefs bore as insignia of honor (Homer, Iliad, 1, 234, 245; 2, 185 sq.; Amo_1:5; Zec_10:11; Wis_10:14; comp. Gen_49:10; Num_24:17; Isa_14:5; wand, Lev_27:32). As such it is thought by some to have originated in the shepherd's staff, since the first kings were mostly nomad princes (Strabo, 16, 783; comp. Psalms 29). There were, however, some nations among whom the agricultural life must have been the earliest known; and we should not among them expect to find the shepherd's staff advanced to symbolical honor. Accordingly, Diodorus Siculus (3, 3) informs us that the scepter of the Egyptian kings bore the shape of a plow. The symbols of dominion, as represented on the Egyptian monuments, are various. That of Osiris was a flail and crook (Wilkinson, Anc. Egypt, 1, 257); that of the queens, besides the crown (q.v.), was two loose feathers on their head (ibid. 1, 276). A carved ivory staff discovered at Nimrûd is supposed to have been a scepter (Layard, Nin. and Bab. p. 195). A golden scepter — that is, perhaps, one washed or plated with gold — is mentioned in Eze_4:11 (comp. Xenophon, Cyrop. 8, 7, 13; Homer, Iliad, 1, 15; 2, 268; Odyss. 11, 91). Other decorations of Oriental scepters are noticed by Strabo (16, 746). Inclining the scepter was a mark of kingly favor (Est_4:11), and the kissing it a token of submission (5:2). Saul appears to have carried his javelin as a mark of superiority (2Sa_8:14; comp. 1Sa_15:10; 1Sa_22:6). The use of the staff as a symbol of authority was not confined to kings, it might be used by any leader, as instanced in Jdg_5:14, where for “pen of the writer,” as in the A.V., we should read “scepter of the leader.” Indeed, no instance of the scepter being actually handled by a Jewish king occurs in the Bible; the allusions to it are all of a metaphorical character, and describe it simply as one of the insignia of supreme power (Psa_45:6; Bar_6:14). The term shebet is rendered in the A.V. “rod” in two passages where scepter is substantially meant, viz. in Psa_2:9, where “scepter of iron” is an expression for strong authority, and in Psa_125:3; a use derived from the employment of the same word as an ordinary “rod” of correction (Exo_21:10, and often), and even for beating out grain (Isa_28:27). SEE ROD.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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