{"query": "Easton: Breastplate", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_100ddef17eee", "title": "Easton: Thummim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Perfection (LXX., “truth;” Vulg., “veritas”), Ex. 28:30; Deut. 33:8; Judg. 1:1; 20:18; 1 Sam. 14:3, 18; 23:9; 2 Sam. 21:1. What the “Urim and Thummim” were cannot be determined with any certainty. All"}, {"id": "card_n_b66b039a63aa", "title": "Easton: Coat of mail", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The rendering of a Hebrew word meaning “glittering” (1 Sam. 17:5, 38). The same word in the plural form is translated “habergeons” in 2 Chr. 26:14 and Neh. 4:16. The “harness” (1 Kings 22:34), “breast"}, {"id": "card_n_6e28533e5c6d", "title": "Easton: Sardine stone", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Rev. 4:3, R.V., “sardius;” Heb. ‘odhem; LXX., Gr. sardion, from a root meaning “red”), a gem of a blood-red colour. It was called “sardius” because obtained from Sardis in Lydia. It is enumerated amo"}, {"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_1776f13da4d2", "title": "Easton: Senir", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Shenir, the name given to Hermon by the Amorites (Deut. 3:9). It means “coat of mail” or “breastplate,” and is equivalent to “Sirion.” Some interpret the word as meaning “the prominent” or “the snowy"}, {"id": "card_n_1d5f190300e8", "title": "Easton: Emerald", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. nophek (Ex. 28:18; 39:11); i.e., the “glowing stone”, probably the carbuncle, a precious stone in the breastplate of the high priest. It is mentioned (Rev. 21:19) as one of the foundations of the"}, {"id": "card_n_851c06706efd", "title": "Easton: Topaz", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. pitdah (Ezek. 28:13; Rev. 21:20), a golden yellow or “green” stone brought from Cush or Ethiopia (Job 28:19). It was the second stone in the first row in the breastplate of the high priest, and h"}, {"id": "card_n_572efd28fcc7", "title": "Easton: Ligure", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. leshem) occurs only in Ex. 28:19 and 39:12, as the name of a stone in the third row on the high priest’s breastplate. Some have supposed that this stone was the same as the jacinth (q.v.), other"}, {"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_4b2a659cb10d", "title": "Easton: Ruby", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. peninim), only in plural (Lam. 4:7). The ruby was one of the stones in the high priest’s breastplate (Ex. 28:17). A comparison is made between the value of wisdom and rubies (Job 28:18; Prov. 3:"}, {"id": "card_n_7a45d0d0aee8", "title": "Easton: Habergeon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An Old English word for breastplate. In Job 41:26 (Heb. shiryah) it is properly a “coat of mail;” the Revised Version has “pointed shaft.” In Ex. 28:32, 39:23, it denotes a military garment strongly a"}, {"id": "card_n_4311015c2a88", "title": "Easton: Diamond", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A precious gem (Heb. yahalom’, in allusion to its hardness), otherwise unknown, the sixth, i.e., the third in the second row, in the breastplate of the high priest, with the name of Naphtali engr"}, {"id": "card_n_c43986684fdf", "title": "Easton: Oracle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In the Old Testament used in every case, except 2 Sam. 16:23, to denote the most holy place in the temple (1 Kings 6:5, 19-23; 8:6). In 2 Sam. 16:23 it means the Word of God. A man inquired “at the or"}, {"id": "card_n_c8e426eaa321", "title": "Easton: Harness", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. ‘asar, “to bind;” hence the act of fastening animals to a cart (1 Sam. 6:7, 10; Jer. 46:4, etc.). (2.) An Old English word for “armour;” Heb. neshek (2 Chr. 9:24). (3.) Heb. shiryan, a coat "}, {"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_7d9f2bd1d448", "title": "Easton: Beryl", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The rendering in the Authorized Version of the Hebrew word tarshish, a precious stone; probably so called as being brought from Tarshish. It was one of the stones on the breastplate of the high priest"}, {"id": "card_n_833764124fb0", "title": "Easton: Scarlet", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This dye was obtained by the Egyptians from the shell-fish Carthamus tinctorius; and by the Hebrews from the Coccus ilicis, an insect which infests oak trees, called kermes by the Arabians. This colou"}, {"id": "card_n_13fa61aa39c6", "title": "Easton: Carbuncle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ex. 28:17; 39:10; Ezek. 28:13). Heb. barkath; LXX. smaragdos; Vulgate, smaragdus; Revised Version, marg., “emerald.” The Hebrew word is from a root meaning “to glitter,” “lighten,” “flash.” When held"}, {"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"}]}