{"query": "Easton: Burden", "count": 12, "results": [{"id": "card_n_4f9d1a164748", "title": "Easton: Burden", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A load of any kind (Ex. 23:5). (2.) A severe task (Ex. 2:11). (3.) A difficult duty, requiring effort (Ex. 18:22). (4.) A prophecy of a calamitous or disastrous nature (Isa. 13:1; 17:1; Hab. 1:1,"}, {"id": "card_n_d3ef0bd91763", "title": "Easton: Amasa", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Burden. (1.) The son of Abigail, a sister of king David (1 Chr. 2:17; 2 Sam. 17:25). He was appointed by David to command the army in room of his cousin Joab (2 Sam. 19:13), who afterwards treacherous"}, {"id": "card_n_b8d2c4bdad10", "title": "Easton: Dumah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Silence, (comp. Ps. 94:17), the fourth son of Ishmael; also the tribe descended from him; and hence also the region in Arabia which they inhabited (Gen. 25:14; 1 Chr. 1:30). There was also a town of t"}, {"id": "card_n_9524b2918830", "title": "Easton: Carriage", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In the Authorized Version this word is found as the rendering of many different words. In Judg. 18:21 it means valuables, wealth, or booty. In Isa. 46:1 (R.V., “the things that ye carried about”) the "}, {"id": "card_n_1a8808bd0681", "title": "Easton: Publican", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who farmed the taxes (e.g., Zacchaeus, Luke 19:2) to be levied from a town or district, and thus undertook to pay to the supreme government a certain amount. In order to collect the taxes, the pub"}, {"id": "card_n_71983920fe55", "title": "Easton: Earth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) In the sense of soil or ground, the translation of the word adamah’. In Gen. 9:20 “husbandman” is literally “man of the ground or earth.” Altars were to be built of earth (Ex. 20:24). Naaman aske"}, {"id": "card_n_b667f9571c63", "title": "Easton: Beast", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word is used of flocks or herds of grazing animals (Ex. 22:5; Num. 20:4, 8, 11; Ps. 78:48); of beasts of burden (Gen. 45:17); of eatable beasts (Prov. 9:2); and of swift beasts or dromedaries (Is"}, {"id": "card_n_2db9fce50af9", "title": "Easton: Amos", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Borne; a burden, one of the twelve minor prophets. He was a native of Tekota, the modern Tekua, a town about 12 miles south-east of Bethlehem. He was a man of humble birth, neither a “prophet nor a pr"}, {"id": "card_n_6a1ad41c91c1", "title": "Easton: Rehoboam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He enlarges the people, the successor of Solomon on the throne, and apparently his only son. He was the son of Naamah “the Ammonitess,” some well-known Ammonitish princess (1 Kings 14:21; 2 Chr. 12:13"}, {"id": "card_n_146eb6567951", "title": "Easton: Elder", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A name frequently used in the Old Testament as denoting a person clothed with authority, and entitled to respect and reverence (Gen. 50:7). It also denoted a political office (Num. 22:7). The “elders "}, {"id": "card_n_a29831e76d86", "title": "Easton: Camel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From the Hebrew gamal, “to repay” or “requite,” as the camel does the care of its master. There are two distinct species of camels, having, however, the common characteristics of being “ruminants with"}, {"id": "card_n_835d77020c67", "title": "Easton: Noah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Rest, (Heb. Noah) the grandson of Methuselah (Gen. 5:25-29), who was for two hundred and fifty years contemporary with Adam, and the son of Lamech, who was about fifty years old at the time of Adam’s "}]}