{"query": "Easton: Bow", "count": 18, "results": [{"id": "card_n_132947566f27", "title": "Easton: Bow", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The bow was in use in early times both in war and in the chase (Gen. 21:20; 27:3; 48:22). The tribe of Benjamin were famous for the use of the bow (1 Chr. 8:40; 12:2; 2 Chr. 14:8; 17:17); so also were"}, {"id": "card_n_fc2c0a4fe7b5", "title": "Easton: Battle-bow", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The war-bow used in fighting (Zech. 9:10; 10:4). “Thy bow was made quite naked” (Hab. 3:9) means that it was made ready for use. By David’s order (2 Sam. 1:18) the young men were taught the use, or ra"}, {"id": "card_n_fa36d9f57c04", "title": "Easton: Archer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A shooter with the bow (1 Chr. 10:3). This art was of high antiquity (Gen. 21:20; 27:3). Saul was wounded by the Philistine archers (1 Sam. 31:3). The phrase “breaking the bow” (Hos. 1:5; Jer. 49:35) "}, {"id": "card_n_3559c5584a97", "title": "Easton: Steel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The “bow of steel” in (A.V.) 2 Sam. 22:35; Job 20:24; Ps. 18:34 is in the Revised Version “bow of brass” (Heb. kesheth-nehushah). In Jer. 15:12 the same word is used, and is also rendered in the Revis"}, {"id": "card_n_1e82be6143cd", "title": "Easton: Copper", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Derived from the Greek kupros (the island of Cyprus), called “Cyprian brass,” occurs only in the Authorized Version in Ezra 8:27. Elsewhere the Hebrew word (nehosheth) is improperly rendered “brass,” "}, {"id": "card_n_9587548d206b", "title": "Easton: Armour", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is employed in the English Bible to denote military equipment, both offensive and defensive. (1.) The offensive weapons were different at different periods of history. The “rod of iron” (Ps. 2:9) is s"}, {"id": "card_n_499b46b2e38b", "title": "Easton: Dart", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An instrument of war; a light spear. “Fiery darts” (Eph. 6:16) are so called in allusion to the habit of discharging darts from the bow while they are on fire or armed with some combustible material. "}, {"id": "card_c_04d059a0cd3e", "title": "Easton: Bow references Benjamin", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Benjamin (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_396e50d4b57d", "title": "Easton: Battle-bow references David", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions David (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_1ff8eb04698b", "title": "Easton: Kish", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A bow. (1.) A Levite of the family of Merari (1 Chr. 23:21; 24:29). (2.) A Benjamite of Jerusalem (1 Chr. 8:30; 9:36). (3.) A Levite in the time of Hezekiah (2 Chr. 29:12). (4.) The great-grandfather "}, {"id": "card_n_3a411d985152", "title": "Easton: Gilboa", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Boiling spring, a mountain range, now Jebel Fukua’, memorable as the scene of Saul’s disastrous defeat by the Philistines. Here also his three sons were slain, and he himself died by his own hand (1 S"}, {"id": "card_n_24f656a0430f", "title": "Easton: Magog", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Region of Gog, the second of the “sons” of Japheth (Gen. 10:2; 1 Chr. 1:5). In Ezekiel (38:2; 39:6) it is the name of a nation, probably some Scythian or Tartar tribe descended from Japheth. They are "}, {"id": "card_n_c5f193d61aad", "title": "Easton: Daric", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In the Revised Version of 1 Chr. 29:7; Ezra 2:69; 8:27; Neh. 7:70-72, where the Authorized Version has “dram.” It is the rendering of the Hebrew darkemon and the Greek dareikos. It was a gold coin, be"}, {"id": "card_n_ea0835f4fb1b", "title": "Easton: Jasher", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Upright. “The Book of Jasher,” rendered in the LXX. “the Book of the Upright One,” by the Vulgate “the Book of Just Ones,” was probably a kind of national sacred song-book, a collection of songs in pr"}, {"id": "card_n_c82ab4e5e643", "title": "Easton: Shadrach", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Aku’s command, the Chaldean name given to Hananiah, one of the Hebrew youths whom Nebuchadnezzar carried captive to Babylon (Dan. 1:6, 7; 3:12-30). He and his two companions refused to bow down before"}, {"id": "card_n_6fbf91a8242c", "title": "Easton: Mouse", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ‘akhbar, “swift digger”), properly the dormouse, the field-mouse (1 Sam. 6:4). In Lev. 11:29, Isa. 66:17 this word is used generically, and includes the jerboa (Mus jaculus), rat, hamster (Cricet"}, {"id": "card_n_8bdc3f339517", "title": "Easton: Games", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Of children (Zech. 8:5; Matt. 11:16). The Jewish youth were also apparently instructed in the use of the bow and the sling (Judg. 20:16; 1 Chr. 12:2). (2.) Public games, such as were common among"}, {"id": "card_n_40daef999889", "title": "Easton: Nail", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "For fastening. (1.) Hebrew yathed, “piercing,” a peg or nail of any material (Ezek. 15:3), more especially a tent-peg (Ex. 27:19; 35:18; 38:20), with one of which Jael (q.v.) pierced the temples of Si"}]}