{"query": "Easton: Arabia", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d89677671dda", "title": "Easton: Arabia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Arid, an extensive region in the south-west of Asia. It is bounded on the west by the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea, on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the east by the Persian Gulf and the Eup"}, {"id": "card_n_b46864e139b6", "title": "Easton: Aretas", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The father-in-law of Herod Antipas, and king of Arabia Petraea. His daughter returned to him on the occasion of her husband’s entering into an adulterous alliance with Herodias, the wife of Herod-Phil"}, {"id": "card_n_0ee112bbdc60", "title": "Easton: Amalekite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A tribe that dwelt in Arabia Petraea, between the Dead Sea and the Red Sea. They were not the descendants of Amalek, the son of Eliphaz, for they existed in the days of Abraham (Gen. 14:7). They were "}, {"id": "card_n_4a14f154615a", "title": "Easton: Sheba", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An oath, seven. (1.) Heb. shebha, the son of Raamah (Gen. 10:7), whose descendants settled with those of Dedan on the Persian Gulf. (2.) Heb. id. A son of Joktan (Gen. 10:28), probably the founder of "}, {"id": "card_n_cbfd1b6bddc9", "title": "Easton: Midianite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An Arabian tribe descended from Midian. They inhabited principally the desert north of the peninsula of Arabia. The peninsula of Sinai was the pasture-ground for their flocks. They were virtually the "}, {"id": "card_c_936b4d4872b5", "title": "Easton: Arabia cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 10:15 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_eb644377e913", "title": "Easton: Arabia cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 2:11 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_929e143be5ca", "title": "Easton: Buz", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Contempt. (1.) The second son of Nahor and Milcah, and brother of Huz (Gen. 22:21). Elihu was one of his descendants (Job 32:2). (2.) One of the chiefs of the tribe of Gad (1 Chr. 5:14). (3.) A distri"}, {"id": "card_n_1f245c6154bb", "title": "Easton: Hazar-maveth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Court of death, the third son of Joktan, and a region in Arabia-Felix settled by him (Gen. 10:26; 1 Chr. 1:20). It is probably the modern province of Hadramaut, situated on the Indian Ocean east of th"}, {"id": "card_n_00363c4bfd16", "title": "Easton: Dedanim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The descendants of Dedan, the son of Raamah. They are mentioned in Isa. 21:13 as sending out “travelling companies” which lodged “in the forest of Arabia.” They are enumerated also by Ezekiel (27:20) "}, {"id": "card_n_85bccea70d62", "title": "Easton: Uphaz", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Probably another name for Ophir (Jer. 10:9). Some, however, regard it as the name of an Indian colony in Yemen, southern Arabia; others as a place on or near the river Hyphasis (now the Ghana), the so"}, {"id": "card_n_020227033624", "title": "Easton: Zophar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Chirping, one of Job’s friends who came to condole with him in his distress (Job 2:11. The LXX. render here “king of the Mineans” = Ma’in, Maonites, Judg. 10:12, in Southern Arabia). He is called a Na"}, {"id": "card_n_58abd1e22959", "title": "Easton: Kenizzite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The name of a tribe referred to in the covenant God made with Abraham (Gen. 15:19). They are not mentioned among the original inhabitants of Canaan (Ex. 3:8; Josh. 3:10), and probably they inhabi"}, {"id": "card_n_7c9ac8cf3b99", "title": "Easton: Beans", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned in 2 Sam. 17:28 as having been brought to David when flying from Absalom. They formed a constituent in the bread Ezekiel (4:9) was commanded to make, as they were in general much used as an "}, {"id": "card_n_250b46e425dd", "title": "Easton: Wise men", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned in Dan. 2:12 included three classes, (1) astrologers, (2) Chaldeans, and (3) soothsayers. The word in the original (hakamim) probably means “medicine men. In Chaldea medicine was only a bran"}, {"id": "card_n_3b62d04cb5fd", "title": "Easton: Ash", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. o’ren, “tremulous”), mentioned only Isa. 44:14 (R.V., “fir tree”). It is rendered “pine tree” both in the LXX. and Vulgate versions. There is a tree called by the Arabs aran, found still in the "}, {"id": "card_n_896eef092cee", "title": "Easton: Peleg", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Division, one of the sons of Eber; so called because “in his days was the earth divided” (Gen. 10:25). Possibly he may have lived at the time of the dispersion from Babel. But more probably the refere"}, {"id": "card_c_5925b929a576", "title": "Easton: Arabia references Desert", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Desert (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_c_eac6e3725dd1", "title": "Easton: Arabia references Edom", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Edom (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_c_0ff6c8f139ef", "title": "Easton: Arabia references Euphrates", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Euphrates (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}]}