So

King James Dictionary

SO, adv. L. sic, contracted. It is from some root signifying to set, to still, and this sense is retained in the use of the word by milkmaids, who say to cows, so, so, that is, stand still, remain as you are and in this use, the word may be the original verb.

1. In like manner, answering to as, and noting comparison or resemblance as with the people, so with the priest. 2. In such a degree to that degree. Why is his chariot so long in coming?  Judges 5 . 3. In such a manner sometimes repeated, so and so as certain colors, mingled so and so. 4. It is followed by as. There is something equivalent in France and Scotland so as it is a hard calumny upon our soil to affirm that so excellent a fruit will not grow here. But in like phrases, we now use that "so that it is a hard calumny " and this may be considered as the extablished usage. 5. In the smae manner. Use your tutor with great respect, and cause all your family to do so too. 6. Thus in this manner as New York so called from the duke of York. I know not why it is, but so it is. It concerns every man, with the greatest seriousness, to inquire whether theese thing are so or not. 7. Therefore thus for this reason in consequence of this or that. It leaves instruction, and so instructors, to the sobriety fo the settled articles of the church. God makes him in own image an intelectual creature, and so capable of dominion. This statute made the clipping of coin hign treason, which it was not at common law so that this was an enlarging staute. 8. On these terms, noting a conditional petition. Here then exchange we mutually forgiveness SO may the guilt of all my broken vows, my perjuries to thee be all forgotten. So here might be expressed by thus, that is, in this manner, by this mutual forgiveness. 9. Provided that on condition that, L. modo. So the doctrine by but wholesome and edifying though there should be a want of exactness in the manner of speaking and resoning, it may be overlooked. I care not who furnishes the means, so they are furnished. 10. In like manner, noting the concession of one proposition of fact and the assumption of another answering to as. As a war should be undertaken upon a just motive, so a prince ought to consider the condition he is in when he enters on it. 11. So often expresses the sense of a word or sentence going before. In this case it prevents a repetition, and may be considered as a substitute for the word or phrase. "France is highly cultivated, but England is more so," that is, more highly cultivated. 12. Thus thus it is this is the state. How sorrow shakes him! So now the tempest tears him up by th' roots. 13. Well the fact being such. And so the work is done, is it? 14. It is sometimes used to express a certain degree, implying comparison, and yet without the corresponding word as, to render the degree definite. An astringent is not quite so proper, where relaxing the urinary passages is necessary. 15. It is sometimes equivalent to be it so, let it be so, let it be as it is, or in that manner. There is Percy if your father will do me any honor, so if not, let him kill the next Percy himself. 16. It expresses a wish, desire or petition. Ready are the appellant and defendant- So please your highness to behold the fight. 17. So much as, however much. Instead of so, we now generally use as as much as, that much whatever the quantity may be. 18. So so, or so repeated, used as a kind of exclamation equivalent to well, well or it is so, the thing is done. So, so, it works now, mistress, sit you fast. 19. So so, much as it was indifferently not well not much amiss. His leg is but so so. 20. So then, thus then it is therefore the consequence is. So then the Volscians stand but as at first ready, when time shall prompt them, to make road upon's again.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( adv.) In such manner; to such degree; - used correlatively with as or that following; as, he was so fortunate as to escape.

(2): ( adv.) Very; in a high degree; that is, in such a degree as can not well be expressed; as, he is so good; he planned so wisely.

(3): ( adv.) In the same manner; as has been stated or suggested; in this or that condition or state; under these circumstances; in this way; - with reflex reference to something just asserted or implied; used also with the verb to be, as a predicate.

(4): ( adv.) In like manner or degree; in the same way; thus; for like reason; whith equal reason; - used correlatively, following as, to denote comparison or resemblance; sometimes, also, following inasmuch as.

(5): ( adv.) It is well; let it be as it is, or let it come to pass; - used to express assent.

(6): ( adv.) In that manner or degree; as, indicated (in any way), or as implied, or as supposed to be known.

(7): ( adv.) Well; the fact being as stated; - used as an expletive; as, so the work is done, is it?

(8): ( adv.) Is it thus? do you mean what you say? - with an upward tone; as, do you say he refuses? So?

(9): ( adv.) About the number, time, or quantity specified; thereabouts; more or less; as, I will spend a week or so in the country; I have read only a page or so.

(10): ( conj.) Provided that; on condition that; in case that; if.

(11): ( interj.) Be as you are; stand still; stop; that will do; right as you are; - a word used esp. to cows; also used by sailors.

(12): ( adv.) The case being such; therefore; on this account; for this reason; on these terms; - used both as an adverb and a conjuction.

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

King of Egypt, made an alliance with Hoshea king of Israel, and promised him assistance; but was unable to prevent Shalmaneser king of Assyria from taking Samaria and subverting the kingdom, B. C. 721, 2 Kings 17:4 . See Pharaoh .

So is believed to have been the Servetus or Sabaco II of secular history, the second king of the Ethiopian or twenty-fifth dynasty, and the predecessor of Trihakah. A singular fact has been brought to light by the recent explorations at Nineveh, corroborating the Scripture record the more forcibly, because unexpected and direct. The Bible shows that Egypt and Assyria, though remote, were often in conflict during the height of the Assyrian ruins power, and that So was at war with Shalmaneser. After war comes the treaty of peace; and as the Bible prepares us to suppose such treaties were made, the Assyrian ruins furnish evidence of their existence. In the remains of Sennacherib's palace recently disentombed, a small room was found which seems to have been a hall of records; and among the seals it contained was the seal of So, well known to students of Egyptian antiquities.

It was impressed, as was then the custom, on a piece of fine clay, which also bore the impress of a royal signet of Assyria; thus showing the probability that such a treaty between the two nations had here been deposited. If so, when the two monarchs affixed their seals to a document, which like themselves has turned to dust, the Most High by their act affixed an additional seal to his holy word, which is true and abideth forever.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

The Egyptian king to whom Hoshea, Israel's last king, applied in the ninth year of his reign for help, when casting off the obligation to pay tribute to Assyria ( 2 Kings 17:4). So did not venture to encounter the Assyrian king Shalmaneser, but deserted his protege, as Egyptian kings often did ( Isaiah 30:3;  Isaiah 36:6). Israel was conquered and Samaria taken. Egyptian monuments illustrate Scripture; precisely in Hoshea's time a change occurs in the Egyptian dynasties. Manetho's 25th or Ethiopian dynasty extended its influence into Lower Egypt in 725 B.C.

So or Seveh answers to "Sabacho" of Manetho, and "Shebek I" of the hieroglyphics. A little later So contended with Sargon in southern Palestine. A seal of fine clay, impressed from the bezel of a metallic finger ring, an oval two inches long by one wide, bears the image, name, and titles of Sabacho. Some make So the first Sabacho, others Sabacho II. Tirhakah or Tehrak, the third and last of the dynasty, is thought to have put So to death. Sabaku (According To G. Smith'S Deciphering) married the sister of Tirhakah who helped Hezekiah against Sennacherib; at Sabaku's death Tirhakah succeeded, Sabaku's son being set aside.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

SO . The king of Egypt (Mizraim), Hoshea’s correspondence with whom led shortly to the captivity of Israel (  2 Kings 17:4 ). In b.c. 725 the kingdom of Egypt was probably in confusion (end of Dyn. 23), the land being divided among petty princes, and threatened or held by the Ethiopians. It is difficult to find an Egyptian name of this period that would be spelt So in Hebrew. Assyrian annals, however, inform us that in 722, shortly after the fall of Samaria, a certain Sib’i , ‘tartan’ (commander-in-chief) of Musri, was sent by Pir’u, king of Musri ( i.e. probably Pharaob, king of Egypt), to the help of Gaza against Sargon. This Sib’i may be our So (or Seve), not king, but commander-in-chief. It has been thought that the Heb. So, Seve, and the Assyr. [Note: Assyrian.] Sib’i might stand for the name of the Ethiopian Shabako of the 25th Dyn., as crown prince and then king, but they would be singularly imperfect renderings of that name. Shabako gained the throne of Egypt about b.c. 713.

F. Ll. Griffith.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

 Acts 23:7 Romans 12:20 Luke 5:10 John 4:40,53Much.  Acts 21:35BefallHappen.  1—Peter 3:17 2—Corinthians 12:16 Hebrews 7:9Word 1—Timothy 3:11 Hebrews 3:11

Smith's Bible Dictionary

So. "So, king of Egypt," is once mentioned in the Bible -  2 Kings 17:4. So has been identified by different writers, with the first and second kings, of the Ethiopian twenty-fifth dynasty, called by Manetho, Sabakon ( Shebek ) and Sebichos ( Shebetek ).

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 2 Kings 17:4

Morrish Bible Dictionary

King of Egypt. See Egypt

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

sō ( סוא , ṣō' , although the Hebrew might be pointed סוא , ṣewe'  ; Assyrian Sib'u  ; Septuagint Σηγώρ , Sēgṓr , Σωά , Sōá  ; Manetho, Σεύεχος , Seúechos  ; Latin Sevechus  ; Herodotus (ii. 137 ff), Σαβακών , Sabakṓn ): In all probability the "Sabaeo" of Herodotus , the Shabaka, who founded the Ethiopian dynasty, the Xxv th of Egyptian kings. His date is given as 715-707 Bc (Flinders Petrie, History of Egypt , III, 281 ff), but we may suppose that before his accession to the throne he was entitled to be designated king, as being actually regent. To this So, Hoshea, king of Israel, made an appeal for assistance to enable him to throw off the yoke of the Assyrian Shalmaneser 4 (  2 Kings 17:3 ff). But Hoshea's submission to So brought him no advantage, for Shalmaneser came up throughout all the land and laid siege to Samaria. Not long after the fall of Samaria, So ventured upon an eastern campaign, and was defeated by Sargon, the successor of Shalmaneser, in the battle of Raphia in 720 BC.

Literature.

Flinders Petrie, History of Egypt , III, 281 ff; McCurdy, Hpm , I, 422; Schrader, Cot , I, 261.

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Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

So, a king of Egypt, whom Hoshea, the last king of Israel, called to his help against the Assyrians under Shalmaneser . It has been questioned whether this So was the same with Sabaco, the first king of the Ethiopian dynasty in Upper Egypt, or his son and successor Sevechus, the second king of the same dynasty, and the immediate predecessor of Tirhakah.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Bibliography Information McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'So'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/s/so.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.