{"query": "Easton: Blue", "count": 17, "results": [{"id": "card_c_676c726e2ea1", "title": "Easton: Nile references Blue", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Blue (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_c_119453a9643f", "title": "Easton: Ethiopia references Blue", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Blue (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_1f8910d13db9", "title": "Easton: Blue", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Generally associated with purple (Ex. 25:4; 26:1, 31, 36, etc.). It is supposed to have been obtained from a shellfish of the Mediterranean, the Helix ianthina of Linnaeus. The robe of the high priest"}, {"id": "card_n_0079ce54231f", "title": "Easton: Nile", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Dark; blue, not found in Scripture, but frequently referred to in the Old Testament under the name of Sihor, i.e., “the black stream” (Isa. 23:3; Jer. 2:18) or simply “the river” (Gen. 41:1; Ex. 1:22,"}, {"id": "card_n_72ee8398374b", "title": "Easton: Amethyst", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the precious stones in the breastplate of the high priest (Ex. 28:19; 39:12), and in the foundation of the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:20). The ancients thought that this stone had the power of disp"}, {"id": "card_n_e7d8c51ff019", "title": "Easton: Sapphire", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Associated with diamonds (Ex. 28:18) and emeralds (Ezek. 28:13); one of the stones in the high priest’s breastplate. It is a precious stone of a sky-blue colour, probably the lapis lazuli, brought fro"}, {"id": "card_n_01db60b77439", "title": "Easton: Jacinth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Properly a flower of a reddish blue or deep purple (hyacinth), and hence a precious stone of that colour (Rev. 21:20). It has been supposed to designate the same stone as the ligure (Heb. leshem) ment"}, {"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_c6915f43001a", "title": "Easton: Pomegranate", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I.e., “grained apple” (pomum granatum), Heb. rimmon. Common in Egypt (Num. 20:5) and Palestine (13:23; Deut. 8:8). The Romans called it Punicum malum, i.e., Carthaginian apple, because they received i"}, {"id": "card_n_ce53a28d8d15", "title": "Easton: Curtain", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Ten curtains, each twenty-eight cubits long and four wide, made of fine linen, also eleven made of goat’s hair, covered the tabernacle (Ex. 26:1-13; 36:8-17). (2.) The sacred curtain, separating "}, {"id": "card_n_96d9dee329be", "title": "Easton: Ephod", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Something girt, a sacred vestment worn originally by the high priest (Ex. 28:4), afterwards by the ordinary priest (1 Sam. 22:18), and characteristic of his office (1 Sam. 2:18, 28; 14:3). It was worn"}, {"id": "card_n_0bcbfdc90abe", "title": "Easton: Breastplate", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) That piece of ancient armour that protected the breast. This word is used figuratively in Eph. 6:14 and Isa. 59:17. (See ARMOUR.) (2.) An ornament covering the breast of the high priest, first me"}, {"id": "card_n_04f8c34dd746", "title": "Easton: Jabbok", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A pouring out, or a wrestling, one of the streams on the east of Jordan, into which it falls about midway between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea, or about 45 miles below the Sea of Galilee. It ri"}, {"id": "card_n_505b6804bcca", "title": "Easton: Mantle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. ‘addereth, a large over-garment. This word is used of Elijah’s mantle (1 Kings 19:13, 19; 2 Kings 2:8, 13, etc.), which was probably a sheepskin. It appears to have been his only garment, a "}, {"id": "card_n_5687975b1ee1", "title": "Easton: Marble", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As a mineral, consists of carbonate of lime, its texture varying from the highly crystalline to the compact. In Esther 1:6 there are four Hebrew words which are rendered marble:, (1.) Shesh, “pillars "}, {"id": "card_n_df1c4e29f598", "title": "Easton: Ethiopia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Country of burnt faces; the Greek word by which the Hebrew Cush is rendered (Gen. 2:13; 2 Kings 19:9; Esther 1:1; Job 28:19; Ps. 68:31; 87:4), a country which lay to the south of Egypt, beginning at S"}, {"id": "card_n_5284f333a082", "title": "Easton: High priest", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Aaron was the first who was solemnly set apart to this office (Ex. 29:7; 30:23; Lev. 8:12). He wore a peculiar dress, which on his death passed to his successor in office (Ex. 29:29, 30). Besides thos"}]}