Sceva

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Sceva
     an implement, a Jew, chief of the priests at Ephesus (Acts
     19:13-16); i.e., the head of one of the twenty-four courses of
     the house of Levi. He had seven sons, who "took upon them to
     call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord
     Jesus," in imitation of Paul. They tried their method of


     exorcism on a fierce demoniac, and failed. His answer to them
     was to this effect (19:15): "The Jesus whom you invoke is One
     whose authority I acknowledge; and the Paul whom you name I
     recognize to be a servant or messenger of God; but what sort of
     men are ye who have been empowered to act as you do by neither?"
     (Lindsay on the Acts of the Apostles.)
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Sceva, disposed; prepared