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scythian |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Scythian \Scyth"i*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Scythia (a name given to the northern part of Asia, and Europe adjoining to Asia), or its language or inhabitants. {Scythian lamb}. (Bot.) See {Barometz}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Scythian \Scyth"i*an\, n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Scythia; specifically (Ethnol.), one of a Slavonic race which in early times occupied Eastern Europe. 2. The language of the Scythians. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Turanian \Tu*ra"ni*an\, a. [From Tur, the name in Persian legendary history, of one of the three brothers from whom sprang the races of mankind.] Of pertaining to or designating, an extensive family of languages of simple structure and low grade (called also {Altaic}, {Ural-Altaic}, and {Scythian}), spoken in the northern parts of Europe and Asia and Central Asia; of pertaining to or designating, the people who speak these languages. From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Scythian The Scythians consisted of "all the pastoral tribes who dwelt to the north of the Black Sea and the Caspian, and were scattered far away toward the east. Of this vast country but little was anciently known Its modern representative is Russia, which to a great extent, includes the same territories." They were the descendants of Japheth (Gen. 9:27). It appears that in apostolic times there were some of this people that embraced Christianity (Col. 3:11).
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