{"query": "Easton: Brass", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_a229e6923dc6", "title": "Easton: Brass", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Which is an alloy of copper and zinc, was not known till the thirteenth century. What is designated by this word in Scripture is properly copper (Deut. 8:9). It was used for fetters (Judg. 16:21; 2 Ki"}, {"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_c3b802ab6b49", "title": "Easton: Shoe", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of various forms, from the mere sandal (q.v.) to the complete covering of the foot. The word so rendered (A.V.) in Deut. 33:25, min’al, “a bar,” is derived from a root meaning “to bolt” or “shut fast,"}, {"id": "card_n_b7e0abd7a6e4", "title": "Easton: Amber", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ezek. 1:4, 27; 8:2. Heb., hashmal, rendered by the LXX. elektron, and by the Vulgate electrum), a metal compounded of silver and gold. Some translate the word by “polished brass,” others “fine brass,"}, {"id": "card_c_2ebfbf53736e", "title": "Easton: Brass references Zechariah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Zechariah. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_4164ca978df0", "title": "Easton: Brass references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_ad6205883cb6", "title": "Easton: Brass cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 25:7; 2 Kings 18:4 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_bf8f31b76f77", "title": "Easton: Brass cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 3:14 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_fd60f5810074", "title": "Easton: Brass cites Micah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Micah 4:13 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_0e2c85963a72", "title": "Easton: Chun", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the cities of Hadarezer, king of Syria. David procured brass (i.e., bronze or copper) from it for the temple (1 Chr. 18:8). It is called Berothai in 2 Sam. 8:8; probably the same as Berothah in"}, {"id": "card_n_1502d056b03f", "title": "Easton: Bar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Used to denote the means by which a door is bolted (Neh. 3:3); a rock in the sea (Jonah 2:6); the shore of the sea (Job 38:10); strong fortifications and powerful impediments, etc. (Isa. 45:2; Amos 1:"}, {"id": "card_n_2db0ba0e16e5", "title": "Easton: Beautiful gate", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name of one of the gates of the temple (Acts 3:2). It is supposed to have been the door which led from the court of the Gentiles to the court of the women. It was of massive structure, and covered"}, {"id": "card_n_9afac5132bd2", "title": "Easton: Cymbals", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. tzeltzelim, from a root meaning to “tinkle”), musical instruments, consisting of two convex pieces of brass one held in each hand, which were clashed together to produce a loud clanging sound; c"}, {"id": "card_n_7ad0481c666f", "title": "Easton: Alexander the Great", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The king of Macedonia, the great conqueror; probably represented in Daniel by the “belly of brass” (Dan. 2:32), and the leopard and the he-goat (7:6; 11:3, 4). He succeeded his father Philip, and died"}, {"id": "card_c_6f6f3bc6c5ca", "title": "Easton: Brass references Canaan", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Canaan (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_b6258b62e0bf", "title": "Easton: Brass references Hezekiah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Hezekiah (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_aae3605ff52a", "title": "Easton: Dish", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "For eating from (2 Kings 21:13). Judas dipped his hand with a “sop” or piece of bread in the same dish with our Lord, thereby indicating friendly intimacy (Matt. 26:23). The “lordly dish” in Judg. 5:2"}, {"id": "card_n_9501c058ead6", "title": "Easton: Nehushtan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of copper; a brazen thing a name of contempt given to the serpent Moses had made in the wilderness (Num. 21:8), and which Hezekiah destroyed because the children of Israel began to regard it as an ido"}, {"id": "card_n_edbac7fbb97c", "title": "Easton: Buckler", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A portable shield (2 Sam. 22:31; 1 Chr. 5:18). (2.) A shield surrounding the person; the targe or round form; used once figuratively (Ps. 91:4). (3.) A large shield protecting the whole body (Ps."}]}