{"query": "Easton: City", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_876ff200d814", "title": "Easton: On", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Light; the sun, (Gen. 41:45, 50), the great seat of sun-worship, called also Bethshemesh (Jer. 43:13) and Aven (Ezek. 30:17), stood on the east bank of the Nile, a few miles north of Memphis, and near"}, {"id": "card_n_233495145001", "title": "Easton: Conduit", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A water-course or channel (Job 38:25). The “conduit of the upper pool” (Isa. 7:3) was formed by Hezekiah for the purpose of conveying the waters from the upper pool in the valley of Gihon to the west "}, {"id": "card_n_7babedd25283", "title": "Easton: Jerusalem", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called also Salem, Ariel, Jebus, the “city of God,” the “holy city;” by the modern Arabs el-Khuds, meaning “the holy;” once “the city of Judah” (2 Chr. 25:28). This name is in the original in the dual"}, {"id": "card_n_497deb4deadf", "title": "Easton: Zoan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Old Egypt. Sant= “stronghold,” the modern San). A city on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, called by the Greeks Tanis. It was built seven years after Hebron in Palestine (Num. 13:22). This great and i"}, {"id": "card_n_0e26c67f02b1", "title": "Easton: Rabbah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Or Rab’bath, great. (1.) “Rabbath of the children of Ammon,” the chief city of the Ammonites, among the eastern hills, some 20 miles east of the Jordan, on the southern of the two streams which united"}, {"id": "card_c_d78bee14aafe", "title": "Easton: Michal references City", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions City (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_8a2af5efd949", "title": "Easton: Nehemiah references City", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions City (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_201c4d62d8d4", "title": "Easton: Pool references City", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions City (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_79ef56031314", "title": "Easton: Olves, Mount of references City", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions City (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_4fdf3cc0a40c", "title": "Easton: City", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The earliest mention of city-building is that of Enoch, which was built by Cain (Gen. 4:17). After the confusion of tongues, the descendants of Nimrod founded several cities (10:10-12). Next, we have "}, {"id": "card_n_65f85a353632", "title": "Easton: Jericho", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Place of fragrance, a fenced city in the midst of a vast grove of palm trees, in the plain of Jordan, over against the place where that river was crossed by the Israelites (Josh. 3:16). Its site was n"}, {"id": "card_n_114f779f9d18", "title": "Easton: Thessalonica", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A large and populous city on the Thermaic bay. It was the capital of one of the four Roman districts of Macedonia, and was ruled by a praetor. It was named after Thessalonica, the wife of Cassander, w"}, {"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 "}, {"id": "card_n_1aa07a7839ff", "title": "Easton: Avenger of blood", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. goel, from verb gaal, “to be near of kin,” “to redeem”), the nearest relative of a murdered person. It was his right and duty to slay the murderer (2 Sam. 14:7, 11) if he found him outside of a "}, {"id": "card_n_fc8307aaf1f1", "title": "Easton: Tiberias", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A city, the modern Tubarich, on the western shore of the Sea of Tiberias. It is said to have been founded by Herod Antipas (A.D. 16), on the site of the ruins of an older city called Rakkath, and to h"}, {"id": "card_n_b3d05fd094d6", "title": "Easton: David, City of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) David took from the Jebusites the fortress of Mount Zion. He “dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David” (1 Chr. 11:7). This was the name afterwards given to the castle and royal palace "}, {"id": "card_n_65c045a22277", "title": "Easton: Corinth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Grecian city, on the isthmus which joins the Peloponnesus to the mainland of Greece. It is about 48 miles west of Athens. The ancient city was destroyed by the Romans (B.C. 146), and that mentioned "}, {"id": "card_n_a930c67f4b13", "title": "Easton: Succoth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Booths. (1.) The first encampment of the Israelites after leaving Ramesses (Ex. 12:37); the civil name of Pithom (q.v.). (2.) A city on the east of Jordan, identified with Tell Dar’ala, a high mound, "}, {"id": "card_n_8465b9f13c8a", "title": "Easton: Nazareth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Separated, generally supposed to be the Greek form of the Hebrew netser, a “shoot” or “sprout.” Some, however, think that the name of the city must be connected with the name of the hill behind it, fr"}, {"id": "card_n_4a3a557c7164", "title": "Easton: Bethlehem", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "House of bread. (1.) A city in the “hill country” of Judah. It was originally called Ephrath (Gen. 35:16, 19; 48:7; Ruth 4:11). It was also called Beth-lehem Ephratah (Micah 5:2), Beth-lehem-judah (1 "}]}