Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A god of forests, fields, and herding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Roman rural deity.
- noun A genus of clavicorn beetles, of the family Cucujidæ, consisting of small, slender species with five-jointed tarsi in both sexes, the fourth joint very small, and antennal joints from nine to eleven, abruptly enlarged.
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- proper noun Roman mythology A
god offorest . - proper noun biblical A companion of
Paul , also calledSilas . - proper noun A male
given name , more often spelledSylvanus , but never popular in either form.
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- noun (Roman mythology) god of woods and fields and flocks; Pan is the Greek counterpart
Etymologies
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Silvanus is contracted into Silas (Ac 15: 22; compare 1Pe 5: 12). in him was yea -- Greek, "is made yea in Him"; that is, our preaching of the Son of God is confirmed as true in Him (that is, through Him; through the miracles wherewith He has confirmed our preaching) [Grotius]; or rather, by the witness of the Spirit which He has given
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Kirk Nabob came to the rescue of the forest that is today known as Silvanus, and has preserved it with great care.
Chakryn Forest - Virtual nature by Andrek Lowell, or the real reason I still have a Second Life Bettina Tizzy 2008
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The clue to the mystery is perhaps to be found in the cult-title Silvanus which we find in the prayer set down by Cato as proper for the protection of the cattle when they are on their summer pasture (_in silva_): "Marti
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Here is the third, now known as Silvanus and belonging to Kirk Nabob, as photographed by Wellington Bahram
Chakryn Forest - Virtual nature by Andrek Lowell, or the real reason I still have a Second Life Bettina Tizzy 2008
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Here is the third, now known as Silvanus and belonging to Kirk Nabob, as photographed by Wellington Bahram
Archive 2008-08-01 Bettina Tizzy 2008
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Eusebius (VIII, xiii) calls Silvanus, at the period of the great persecution, bishop, not of Emesa, but of "the churches round Emesa".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Selvans assuredly comes from Latin Silvanus which is in turn formed from a Latin word silva "forest" and that would help explain why he does not appear in Greek mythological scenes, right?
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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Selvans assuredly comes from Latin Silvanus which is in turn formed from a Latin word silva "forest" and that would help explain why he does not appear in Greek mythological scenes, right?
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But nothing is known of him beyond what is here said. and Silas -- the same as "Silvanus" in the Epistles.
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Nineteen-year-old Silvanus Shannon, 16-year-old Eric Carson and 18-year-old Eugene Riley were charged as adults with first degree felony murder, said Tandra Simonton, spokesperson for the Cook County States Attorney.
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