{"query": "Easton: Bricks", "count": 13, "results": [{"id": "card_n_348d301c5ee0", "title": "Easton: Bricks", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The making of, formed the chief labour of the Israelites in Egypt (Ex. 1:13, 14). Those found among the ruins of Babylon and Nineveh are about a foot square and four inches thick. They were usually dr"}, {"id": "card_n_bfcceeae1179", "title": "Easton: Pithom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Egyptian, Pa-Tum, “house of Tum,” the sun-god, one of the “treasure” cities built for Pharaoh Rameses II. by the Israelites (Ex. 1:11). It was probably the Patumos of the Greek historian Herodotus. It"}, {"id": "card_c_1c2fcd7c9228", "title": "Easton: Bricks references Babylon", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Babylon (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_983ed5bc5f6a", "title": "Easton: Bricks references Egypt", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Egypt (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_9a1a1065b3c9", "title": "Easton: Bricks references Nineveh", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Nineveh (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_9775ad62bc60", "title": "Easton: Kirjath-sepher", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "City of books, Josh. 15:15; same as Kirjath-sannah (q.v.), now represented by the valley of ed-Dhaberiyeh, south-west of Hebron. The name of this town is an evidence that the Canaanites were acquainte"}, {"id": "card_n_551d0d66e5a8", "title": "Easton: Rameses", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“the land of” (Gen. 47:11), was probably “the land of Goshen” (q.v.) 45:10. After the Hebrews had built Rameses, one of the “treasure cities,” it came to be known as the “land” in which that city was "}, {"id": "card_n_da6ec4329686", "title": "Easton: Dwell", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Tents were in primitive times the common dwellings of men. Houses were afterwards built, the walls of which were frequently of mud (Job 24:16; Matt. 6:19, 20) or of sun-dried bricks. God “dwells in li"}, {"id": "card_n_89c3ae8ae0bf", "title": "Easton: Shinar, The Land of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "LXX. and Vulgate “Senaar;” in the inscriptions, “Shumir;” probably identical with Babylonia or Southern Mesopotamia, extending almost to the Persian Gulf. Here the tower of Babel was built (Gen. 11:1-"}, {"id": "card_n_f9e26f5fd01d", "title": "Easton: Dwellings", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The materials used in buildings were commonly bricks, sometimes also stones (Lev. 14:40, 42), which were held together by cement (Jer. 43:9) or bitumen (Gen. 11:3). The exterior was usually whitewashe"}, {"id": "card_n_cb4b9c898bd3", "title": "Easton: Erech", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(LXX., “Orech”), length, or Moon-town, one of the cities of Nimrod’s kingdom in the plain of Shinar (Gen. 10:10); the Orchoe of the Greeks and Romans. It was probably the city of the Archevites, who w"}, {"id": "card_n_4e73e56c082e", "title": "Easton: Memphis", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Only in Hos. 9:6, Hebrew Moph. In Isa. 19:13; Jer. 2:16; 46:14, 19; Ezek. 30:13, 16, it is mentioned under the name Noph. It was the capital of Lower, i.e., of Northern Egypt. From certain remains fou"}, {"id": "card_n_2ca9d4b75757", "title": "Easton: Ur", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Light, or the moon city, a city “of the Chaldees,” the birthplace of Haran (Gen. 11:28, 31), the largest city of Shinar or northern Chaldea, and the principal commercial centre of the country as well "}]}