{"query": "Easton: Animal", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d3ebd35cadbe", "title": "Easton: Chamois", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Only in Deut. 14:5 (Heb. zemer), an animal of the deer or gazelle species. It bears this Hebrew name from its leaping or springing. The animal intended is probably the wild sheep (Ovis tragelephus), w"}, {"id": "card_n_48269e9fc9bf", "title": "Easton: Unicorn", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Described as an animal of great ferocity and strength (Num. 23:22, R.V., “wild ox,” marg., “ox-antelope;” 24:8; Isa. 34:7, R.V., “wild oxen”), and untamable (Job 39:9). It was in reality a two-horned "}, {"id": "card_n_b667f9571c63", "title": "Easton: Beast", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word is used of flocks or herds of grazing animals (Ex. 22:5; Num. 20:4, 8, 11; Ps. 78:48); of beasts of burden (Gen. 45:17); of eatable beasts (Prov. 9:2); and of swift beasts or dromedaries (Is"}, {"id": "card_n_9bbf8334bd0a", "title": "Easton: Animal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An organized living creature endowed with sensation. The Levitical law divided animals into clean and unclean, although the distinction seems to have existed before the Flood (Gen. 7:2). The clean cou"}, {"id": "card_n_a06e1d2ec2e3", "title": "Easton: Coney", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. shaphan; i.e., “the hider”), an animal which inhabits the mountain gorges and the rocky districts of Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land. “The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their hous"}, {"id": "card_n_7e4638290792", "title": "Easton: Fuel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Almost every kind of combustible matter was used for fuel, such as the withered stalks of herbs (Matt. 6:30), thorns (Ps. 58:9; Eccl. 7:6), animal excrements (Ezek. 4:12-15; 15:4, 6; 21:32). Wood or c"}, {"id": "card_n_c40a1d1a4743", "title": "Easton: Fatling", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A fatted animal for slaughter (2 Sam. 6:13; Isa. 11:6; Ezek. 39:18. Comp. Matt. 22:4, where the word used in the original, sitistos, means literally “corn-fed;” i.e., installed, fat). (2.) Ps. 66"}, {"id": "card_n_68a630f6f121", "title": "Easton: Swine", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. hazir), regarded as the most unclean and the most abhorred of all animals (Lev. 11:7; Isa. 65:4; 66:3, 17; Luke 15:15, 16). A herd of swine were drowned in the Sea of Galilee (Luke 8:32, 33). Sp"}, {"id": "card_n_84b0d8b7db60", "title": "Easton: Ape", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An animal of the monkey tribe (1 Kings 10:22; 2 Chr. 9:21). It was brought from India by the fleets of Solomon and Hiram, and was called by the Hebrews koph_, and by the Greeks _kepos, both words bein"}, {"id": "card_n_e71a10411e33", "title": "Easton: Pygarg", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. dishon, “springing”, (Deut. 14:5), one of the animals permitted for food. It is supposed to be the Antelope addax. It is described as “a large animal, over 3 1/2 feet high at the shoulder, and, w"}, {"id": "card_n_c8592823b30c", "title": "Easton: Chameleon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A species of lizard which has the faculty of changing the colour of its skin. It is ranked among the unclean animals in Lev. 11:30, where the Hebrew word so translated is coah (R.V., “land crocodile”)"}, {"id": "card_n_8e4a12787eb3", "title": "Easton: Ant", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. nemalah, from a word meaning to creep, cut off, destroy), referred to in Prov. 6:6; 30:25, as distinguished for its prudent habits. Many ants in Palestine feed on animal substances, but others d"}, {"id": "card_n_0e26ba1fdd35", "title": "Easton: Fat", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. heleb) denotes the richest part of the animal, or the fattest of the flock, in the account of Abel’s sacrifice (Gen. 4:4). It sometimes denotes the best of any production (Gen. 45:18; Num. 18:12"}, {"id": "card_n_732fe14a8a42", "title": "Easton: Carnal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Unconverted men are so called (1 Cor. 3:3). They are represented as of a “carnal mind, which is enmity against God” (Rom. 8:6, 7). Enjoyments that minister to the wants and desires of man’s animal nat"}, {"id": "card_n_e4efa6247c6c", "title": "Easton: Snail", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. homit, among the unclean creeping things (Lev. 11:30). This was probably the sand-lizard, of which there are many species in the wilderness of Judea and the Sinai peninsula. (2.) Heb. shablu"}, {"id": "card_n_475c7c3e8ceb", "title": "Daniel 7", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head while on his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.\n2. Daniel spoke and said, “I s"}, {"id": "card_n_6b809ee37820", "title": "Easton: Bullock", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The translation of a word which is a generic name for horned cattle (Isa. 65:25). It is also rendered “cow” (Ezek. 4:15), “ox” (Gen. 12:16). (2.) The translation of a word always meaning an anima"}, {"id": "card_n_92650aecd45f", "title": "Easton: Fallow-deer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Deut. 14:5 (R.V., “Wild goat”); 1 Kings 4:23 (R.V., “roebucks”). This animal, called in Hebrew yahmur, from a word meaning “to be red,” is regarded by some as the common fallow-deer, the Cervus dama, "}, {"id": "card_n_bec1027576f7", "title": "Easton: Kid", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The young of the goat. It was much used for food (Gen. 27:9; 38:17; Judg. 6:19; 14:6). The Mosaic law forbade to dress a kid in the milk of its dam, a law which is thrice repeated (Ex. 23:19; 34:26; D"}, {"id": "card_n_07770bb8404a", "title": "Easton: Coral", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ramoth, meaning “heights;” i.e., “high-priced” or valuable things, or, as some suppose, “that which grows high,” like a tree (Job 28:18; Ezek. 27:16), according to the Rabbins, red coral, which w"}]}