{"query": "Easton: Cistern", "count": 5, "results": [{"id": "card_n_c980616834e1", "title": "Easton: Cistern", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The rendering of a Hebrew word bor, which means a receptacle for water conveyed to it; distinguished from beer, which denotes a place where water rises on the spot (Jer. 2:13; Prov. 5:15; Isa. 36:16),"}, {"id": "card_n_852a08b67dbf", "title": "Easton: Pit", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A hole in the ground (Ex. 21:33, 34), a cistern for water (Gen. 37:24; Jer. 14:3), a vault (41:9), a grave (Ps. 30:3). It is used as a figure for mischief (Ps. 9:15), and is the name given to the unse"}, {"id": "card_c_5dbd7ad2bea5", "title": "Easton: Cistern references Palestine", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Palestine (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_n_20d1777b7eea", "title": "Easton: Dungeon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Different from the ordinary prison in being more severe as a place of punishment. Like the Roman inner prison (Acts 16:24), it consisted of a deep cell or cistern (Jer. 38:6). To be shut up in, a puni"}, {"id": "card_n_c6f329082959", "title": "Easton: Pool", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A pond, or reservoir, for holding water (Heb. berekhah; modern Arabic, birket), an artificial cistern or tank. Mention is made of the pool of Gibeon (2 Sam. 2:13); the pool of Hebron (4:12); the upper"}]}