{"query": "Easton: Black", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_65e52aa83513", "title": "Easton: Black", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Properly the absence of all colour. In Prov. 7:9 the Hebrew word means, as in the margin of the Revised Version, “the pupil of the eye.” It is translated “apple” of the eye in Deut. 32:10; Ps. 17:8; P"}, {"id": "card_n_e503d2839807", "title": "Easton: Chemarim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Black, (Zeph. 1:4; rendered “idolatrous priests” in 2 Kings 23:5, and “priests” in Hos. 10:5). Some derive this word from the Assyrian Kamaru, meaning “to throw down,” and interpret it as describing t"}, {"id": "card_n_d72e3ece68be", "title": "Easton: Kedron", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The valley, now quite narrow, between the Mount of Olives and Mount Moriah. The upper part of it is called the Valley of Jehoshaphat. The LXX., in 1 Kings 15:13, translate “of the cedar.” The word mea"}, {"id": "card_n_f22d887ecf90", "title": "Easton: Onyx", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A hail; claw; hoof, (Heb. shoham), a precious stone adorning the breast-plate of the high priest and the shoulders of the ephod (Ex. 28:9-12, 20; 35:27; Job 28:16; Ezek. 28:13). It was found in the la"}, {"id": "card_n_051e5f4a3a51", "title": "Easton: Colour", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The subject of colours holds an important place in the Scriptures. White occurs as the translation of various Hebrew words. It is applied to milk (Gen. 49:12), manna (Ex. 16:31), snow (Isa. 1:18), hor"}, {"id": "card_n_55817537d555", "title": "Easton: Accad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The high land or mountains, a city in the land of Shinar. It has been identified with the mounds of Akker Kuf, some 50 miles to the north of Babylon; but this is doubtful. It was one of the cities of "}, {"id": "card_c_6b0a78457613", "title": "Easton: Black cites Esther", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Esther 1:6 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_0563ed6850f6", "title": "Easton: Boil", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(rendered “botch” in Deut. 28:27, 35), an aggravated ulcer, as in the case of Hezekiah (2 Kings 20:7; Isa. 38:21) or of the Egyptians (Ex. 9:9, 10, 11; Deut. 28:27, 35). It designates the disease of J"}, {"id": "card_n_c7a02853d567", "title": "Easton: Blains", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Occurs only in connection with the sixth plague of Egypt (Ex. 9:9, 10). In Deut. 28:27, 35, it is called “the botch of Egypt.” It seems to have been the fearful disease of black leprosy, a kind of ele"}, {"id": "card_n_7f98c822b703", "title": "Easton: Sackcloth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cloth made of black goats’ hair, coarse, rough, and thick, used for sacks, and also worn by mourners (Gen. 37:34; 42:25; 2 Sam. 3:31; Esther 4:1, 2; Ps. 30:11, etc.), and as a sign of repentance (Matt"}, {"id": "card_n_279fde26e702", "title": "Easton: Sihor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(correctly Shi’hor) black; dark the name given to the river Nile in Isa. 23:3; Jer. 2:18. In Josh. 13:3 it is probably “the river of Egypt”, i.e., the Wady el-Arish (1 Chr. 13:5), which flows “before "}, {"id": "card_n_9279b7a31e06", "title": "Easton: Ashkenaz", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the three sons of Gomer (Gen. 10:3), and founder of one of the tribes of the Japhetic race. They are mentioned in connection with Minni and Ararat, and hence their original seat must have been "}, {"id": "card_n_52fa05d01837", "title": "Easton: Poplar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. libneh, “white”, (Gen. 30:37; Hos. 4:13), in all probability the storax tree (Styrax officinalis) or white poplar, distinguished by its white blossoms and pale leaves. It is common in the Anti-Li"}, {"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_d3b4f28aadd5", "title": "Easton: Kedar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Dark-skinned, the second son of Ishmael (Gen. 25:13). It is the name for the nomadic tribes of Arabs, the Bedouins generally (Isa. 21:16; 42:11; 60:7; Jer. 2:10; Ezek. 27:21), who dwelt in the north-w"}, {"id": "card_n_af8f4dd497a2", "title": "Easton: Scythian", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Scythians consisted of “all the pastoral tribes who dwelt to the north of the Black Sea and the Caspian, and were scattered far away toward the east. Of this vast country but little was anciently "}, {"id": "card_n_0ea26c083c84", "title": "Easton: Glede", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An Old English name for the common kite, mentioned only in Deut. 14:13 (Heb. ra’ah), the Milvus ater or black kite. The Hebrew word does not occur in the parallel passage in Leviticus (11:14, da’ah, r"}, {"id": "card_n_46a0ee1ad5c1", "title": "Easton: Shihor-Libnath", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Black-white, a stream on the borders of Asher, probably the modern Nahr Zerka, i.e., the “crocodile brook,” or “blue river”, which rises in the Carmel range and enters the Mediterranean a little to th"}, {"id": "card_n_f00b6c917f5c", "title": "Easton: Tubal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The fifth son of Japheth (Gen. 10:2). (2.) A nation, probably descended from the son of Japheth. It is mentioned by Isaiah (66:19), along with Javan, and by Ezekiel (27:13), along with Meshech, a"}, {"id": "card_n_3aa1ff7037be", "title": "Easton: Sycamine tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned only in Luke 17:6. It is rendered by Luther “mulberry tree” (q.v.), which is most probably the correct rendering. It is found of two species, the black mulberry (Morus nigra) and the white m"}]}