{"query": "Easton: Bitter", "count": 17, "results": [{"id": "card_n_bac661c3042e", "title": "Easton: Bitter", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Bitterness is symbolical of affliction, misery, and servitude (Ex. 1:14; Ruth 1:20; Jer. 9:15). The Chaldeans are called the “bitter and hasty nation” (Hab. 1:6). The “gall of bitterness” expresses a "}, {"id": "card_n_475b0aba93ae", "title": "Easton: Herb", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. ‘eseb, any green plant; herbage (Gen. 1:11, 12, 29, 30; 2:5; 3:18, etc.); comprehending vegetables and all green herbage (Amos 7:1, 2). (2.) Yarak, green; any green thing; foliage of trees ("}, {"id": "card_n_4a6eec8fa59f", "title": "Easton: Marah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Bitterness, a fountain at the sixth station of the Israelites (Ex. 15:23, 24; Num. 33:8) whose waters were so bitter that they could not drink them. On this account they murmured against Moses, who, u"}, {"id": "card_n_8674b85a1840", "title": "Easton: Vine of Sodom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Referred to only in Deut. 32:32. Among the many conjectures as to this tree, the most probable is that it is the ‘osher of the Arabs, which abounds in the region of the Dead Sea. Its fruit are the so-"}, {"id": "card_n_5222dcc007be", "title": "Easton: Gall", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1) Heb. mererah, meaning “bitterness” (Job 16:13); i.e., the bile secreted in the liver. This word is also used of the poison of asps (20:14), and of the vitals, the seat of life (25). (2.) Heb. rosh"}, {"id": "card_c_85012ab3f077", "title": "Easton: Bitter cites Ruth", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Ruth 1:20 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_555c5a939c43", "title": "Easton: Bitter cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 8:23 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_9fc7daedfbf4", "title": "Easton: Merari", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sad; bitter, the youngest son of Levi, born before the descent of Jacob into Egypt, and one of the seventy who accompanied him thither (Gen. 46:11; Ex. 6:16). He became the head of one of the great di"}, {"id": "card_n_10c5df936e0c", "title": "Easton: Naughty figs", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Jer. 24:2). “The bad figs may have been such either from having decayed, and thus been reduced to a rotten condition, or as being the fruit of the sycamore, which contains a bitter juice” (Tristram, "}, {"id": "card_n_824eef0ad995", "title": "Easton: Arrows", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "At first made of reeds, and then of wood tipped with iron. Arrows are sometimes figuratively put for lightning (Deut. 32:23, 42; Ps. 7:13; 18:14; 144:6; Zech. 9:14). They were used in war as well as i"}, {"id": "card_n_f52989e448a5", "title": "Easton: Poison", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. hemah, “heat,” the poison of certain venomous reptiles (Deut. 32:24, 33; Job 6:4; Ps. 58:4), causing inflammation. (2.) Heb. rosh, “a head,” a poisonous plant (Deut. 29:18), growing luxurian"}, {"id": "card_n_a126c48afb2b", "title": "Easton: Hemlock", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. rosh (Hos. 10:4; rendered “gall” in Deut. 29:18; 32:32; Ps. 69:21; Jer. 9:15; 23:15; “poison,” Job 20:16; “venom,” Deut. 32:33). “Rosh is the name of some poisonous plant which grows quickly"}, {"id": "card_n_3cc3dc2b99e7", "title": "Easton: Aloes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ‘ahalim), a fragrant wood (Num. 24:6; Ps. 45:8; Prov. 7:17; Cant. 4:14), the Aquilaria agallochum of botanists, or, as some suppose, the costly gum or perfume extracted from the wood. It is foun"}, {"id": "card_n_2e5eecd9c3f4", "title": "Easton: Samaritans", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to the new and mixed inhabitants whom Esarhaddon (B.C. 677), the king of Assyria, brought from Babylon and other places and settled in the cities of Samaria, instead of the original inh"}, {"id": "card_n_78ef34b2e7cf", "title": "Easton: Whale", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hebrew word tan (plural, tannin) is so rendered in Job 7:12 (A.V.; but R.V., “sea-monster”). It is rendered by “dragons” in Deut. 32:33; Ps. 91:13; Jer. 51:34; Ps. 74:13 (marg., “whales;” and marg"}, {"id": "card_n_b560cfdfff5a", "title": "Easton: Passover", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to the chief of the three great historical annual festivals of the Jews. It was kept in remembrance of the Lord’s passing over the houses of the Israelites (Ex. 12:13) when the first bo"}, {"id": "card_n_1cbe7c7ebf43", "title": "Easton: Judas", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Graecized form of Judah. (1.) The patriarch (Matt. 1:2, 3). (2.) Son of Simon (John 6:71; 13:2, 26), surnamed Iscariot, i.e., a man of Kerioth (Josh. 15:25). His name is uniformly the last in the "}]}