{"query": "Easton: Bread", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_6ae644f46786", "title": "Easton: Bread", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Among the Jews was generally made of wheat (Ex. 29:2; Judg. 6:19), though also sometimes of other grains (Gen. 14:18; Judg. 7:13). Parched grain was sometimes used for food without any other preparati"}, {"id": "card_n_2bb4cd399edc", "title": "Easton: Shewbread", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ex. 25:30 (R.V. marg., “presence bread”); 1 Chr. 9:32 (marg., “bread of ordering”); Num. 4:7: called “hallowed bread” (R.V., “holy bread”) in 1 Sam. 21:1-6. This bread consisted of twelve loaves made "}, {"id": "card_n_a8b7d2a199db", "title": "Easton: Bake", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The duty of preparing bread was usually, in ancient times, committed to the females or the slaves of the family (Gen. 18:6; Lev. 26:26; 1 Sam. 8:13); but at a later period we find a class of public ba"}, {"id": "card_n_61ce7eb8fcb6", "title": "Easton: Cake", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cakes made of wheat or barley were offered in the temple. They were salted, but unleavened (Ex. 29:2; Lev. 2:4). In idolatrous worship thin cakes or wafers were offered “to the queen of heaven” (Jer. "}, {"id": "card_n_ab031ec7bdb6", "title": "Easton: Mouldy", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of the Gibeonites it is said that “all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy” (Josh. 9:5, 12). The Hebrew word here rendered “mouldy” (nikuddim) is rendered “cracknels” in 1 Kings 14:3, and "}, {"id": "card_n_16838d75beae", "title": "Easton: Raven", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ‘orebh, from a root meaning “to be black” (comp. Cant. 5:11); first mentioned as “sent forth” by Noah from the ark (Gen. 8:7). “Every raven after his kind” was forbidden as food (Lev. 11:15; Deut"}, {"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_e28196bff4c5", "title": "Easton: Marriage-feasts", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(John 2:1-11) “lasted usually for a whole week; but the cost of such prolonged rejoicing is very small in the East. The guests sit round the great bowl or bowls on the floor, the meal usually consisti"}, {"id": "card_c_9ae2077d8d3f", "title": "Easton: Bread references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_174cc3c7e3f7", "title": "Easton: Bread cites Ruth", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Ruth 2:14 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_f9fb88dd7e5b", "title": "Easton: Bread cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 19:6 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_7c9ac8cf3b99", "title": "Easton: Beans", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned in 2 Sam. 17:28 as having been brought to David when flying from Absalom. They formed a constituent in the bread Ezekiel (4:9) was commanded to make, as they were in general much used as an "}, {"id": "card_n_724c230faf4c", "title": "Easton: Tenth deal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I.e., the tenth part of an ephah (as in the R.V.), equal to an omer or six pints. The recovered leper, to complete his purification, was required to bring a trespass, a sin, and a burnt offering, and "}, {"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_c_6ad14610de54", "title": "Easton: Bread references Sabbath", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Sabbath (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_c_157f06c63019", "title": "Easton: Bread references Sarah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Sarah (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_716e70d8f1c7", "title": "Easton: Wave offerings", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Parts of peace-offerings were so called, because they were waved by the priests (Ex. 29:24, 26, 27; Lev. 7:20-34; 8:27; 9:21; 10:14, 15, etc.), in token of a solemn special presentation to God. They t"}, {"id": "card_n_fa7d04961956", "title": "Easton: Barley", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A grain much cultivated in Egypt (Ex. 9:31) and in Palestine (Lev. 27:16; Deut. 8:8). It was usually the food of horses (1 Kings 4:28). Barley bread was used by the poorer people (Judg. 7:13; 2 Kings "}, {"id": "card_n_a310af9b7a0d", "title": "Easton: Syrophenician", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation” (Mark 7:26), i.e., a Gentile born in the Phoenician part of Syria. (See PHENICIA.) When our Lord retired into the borderland of Tyre and Sidon (Matt. 15:21), a Syr"}, {"id": "card_n_6dc7f2f388f0", "title": "Easton: Cummin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. kammon; i.e., a “condiment”), the fruit or seed of an umbelliferous plant, the Cuminum sativum, still extensively cultivated in the East. Its fruit is mentioned in Isa. 28:25, 27. In the New Tes"}]}