{"query": "Easton: Babel, tower of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_bd877f031a70", "title": "Easton: Babel, tower of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to the tower which the primitive fathers of our race built in the land of Shinar after the Deluge (Gen. 11:1-9). Their object in building this tower was probably that it might be seen a"}, {"id": "card_n_89c3ae8ae0bf", "title": "Easton: Shinar, The Land of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "LXX. and Vulgate “Senaar;” in the inscriptions, “Shumir;” probably identical with Babylonia or Southern Mesopotamia, extending almost to the Persian Gulf. Here the tower of Babel was built (Gen. 11:1-"}, {"id": "card_n_de13aa6f7c0b", "title": "Easton: Tongues, Confusion of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "At Babel, the cause of the early separation of mankind and their division into nations. The descendants of Noah built a tower to prevent their dispersion; but God “confounded their language” (Gen. 11:"}, {"id": "card_n_ca7c5314c056", "title": "Easton: Siloam, Tower of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned only Luke 13:4. The place here spoken of is the village now called Silwan, or Kefr Silwan, on the east of the valley of Kidron, and to the north-east of the pool. It stands on the west slope"}, {"id": "card_n_348d301c5ee0", "title": "Easton: Bricks", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The making of, formed the chief labour of the Israelites in Egypt (Ex. 1:13, 14). Those found among the ruins of Babylon and Nineveh are about a foot square and four inches thick. They were usually dr"}, {"id": "card_n_7c2b204a8d40", "title": "Easton: Edar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Tower of the flock, a tower between Bethlehem and Hebron, near which Jacob first halted after leaving Bethlehem (Gen. 35:21). In Micah 4:8 the word is rendered “tower of the flock” (marg., “Edar”), an"}, {"id": "card_c_6b6186e7ac22", "title": "Easton: Babel, tower of references Armenia", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Armenia (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_a7dcbcb8381a", "title": "Easton: Babel, tower of references Babylon", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Babylon (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_749bf6f10e2a", "title": "Easton: Babel, tower of 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."}, {"id": "card_c_52fcfaa02811", "title": "Easton: Babel, tower of references Jerusalem", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jerusalem (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_76f528aaeae4", "title": "Easton: Babel, tower of references Nebuchadnezzar", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Nebuchadnezzar (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_n_3cc8f0933909", "title": "Easton: Dor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Dwelling, the Dora of the Romans, an ancient royal city of the Canaanites (Josh. 11:1, 2; 12:23). It was the most southern settlement of the Phoenicians on the coast of Syria. The original inhabitants"}, {"id": "card_n_31cca21741a0", "title": "Easton: Caesarea", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Palestinae), a city on the shore of the Mediterranean, on the great road from Tyre to Egypt, about 70 miles northwest of Jerusalem, at the northern extremity of the plain of Sharon. It was built by H"}, {"id": "card_n_cb4b9c898bd3", "title": "Easton: Erech", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(LXX., “Orech”), length, or Moon-town, one of the cities of Nimrod’s kingdom in the plain of Shinar (Gen. 10:10); the Orchoe of the Greeks and Romans. It was probably the city of the Archevites, who w"}, {"id": "card_n_8c1e15ec7173", "title": "Easton: Magdala", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A tower, a town in Galilee, mentioned only in Matt. 15:39. In the parallel passage in Mark 8:10 this place is called Dalmanutha. It was the birthplace of Mary called the Magdalen, or Mary Magdalene. I"}, {"id": "card_n_e2339f328782", "title": "Easton: Anakim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The descendants of Anak (Josh. 11:21; Num. 13:33; Deut. 9:2). They dwelt in the south of Palestine, in the neighbourhood of Hebron (Gen. 23:2; Josh. 15:13). In the days of Abraham (Gen. 14:5, 6) they "}, {"id": "card_n_479179735a5e", "title": "Easton: Samaria", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A watch-mountain or a watch-tower. In the heart of the mountains of Israel, a few miles north-west of Shechem, stands the “hill of Shomeron,” a solitary mountain, a great “mamelon.” It is an oblong hi"}, {"id": "card_n_ac1fb7489193", "title": "Easton: Oven", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. tannur, (Hos. 7:4). In towns there appear to have been public ovens. There was a street in Jerusalem (Jer. 37:21) called “bakers’ street” (the only case in which the name of a street in Jerusalem"}, {"id": "card_n_cbae0535dc6f", "title": "Easton: Mizpah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Or Miz’peh, watch-tower; the look-out. (1.) A place in Gilead, so named by Laban, who overtook Jacob at this spot (Gen. 31:49) on his return to Palestine from Padan-aram. Here Jacob and Laban set up t"}, {"id": "card_n_aa41e36b297b", "title": "Easton: Castle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A military fortress (1 Chr. 11:7), also probably a kind of tower used by the priests for making known anything discovered at a distance (1 Chr. 6:54). Castles are also mentioned (Gen. 25:16) as a kind"}]}