{"query": "Easton: Doors", "count": 19, "results": [{"id": "card_n_e613a49342d0", "title": "Easton: Doors", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Moved on pivots of wood fastened in sockets above and below (Prov. 26:14). They were fastened by a lock (Judg. 3:23, 25; Cant. 5:5) or by a bar (Judg. 16:3; Job 38:10). In the interior of Oriental hou"}, {"id": "card_n_7620c5fb7a7f", "title": "Easton: Hinge", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. tsir), that on which a door revolves. “Doors in the East turn rather on pivots than on what we term hinges. In Syria, and especially in the Hauran, there are many ancient doors, consisting of st"}, {"id": "card_c_db07b3261e4b", "title": "Easton: Doors cites Job", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Job 38:10 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_36b5ebf94c09", "title": "Easton: Doors cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 10:9 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_29134e08c2e2", "title": "Easton: Porter", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A gate-keeper (2 Sam. 18:26; 2 Kings 7:10; 1 Chr. 9:21; 2 Chr. 8:14). Of the Levites, 4,000 were appointed as porters by David (1 Chr. 23:5), who were arranged according to their families (26:1-19) to"}, {"id": "card_n_870a41f807ca", "title": "Easton: Lock", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hebrews usually secured their doors by bars of wood or iron (Isa. 45:2; 1 Kings 4:3). These were the locks originally used, and were opened and shut by large keys applied through an opening in the"}, {"id": "card_c_61a7cf9cbd1d", "title": "Easton: Doors references Achor", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Achor (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_823cd1eea651", "title": "Easton: Door-posts", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Jews were commanded to write the divine name on the posts (mezuzoth’) of their doors (Deut. 6:9). The Jews, misunderstanding this injunction, adopted the custom of writing on a slip of parchment t"}, {"id": "card_n_93d030e341b3", "title": "Easton: Hauran", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cave-land, mentioned only in Ezek. 47:16, 18. It was one of the ancient divisions of Bashan (q.v.), and lay on the south-east of Gaulanitis or the Jaulan, and on the south of Lejah, extending from the"}, {"id": "card_n_48d59fad564c", "title": "Easton: Clay", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word is used of sediment found in pits or in streets (Isa. 57:20; Jer. 38:60), of dust mixed with spittle (John 9:6), and of potter’s clay (Isa. 41:25; Nah. 3:14; Jer. 18:1-6; Rom. 9:21). Clay wa"}, {"id": "card_n_2c315f94ee67", "title": "Easton: Fir", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The uniform rendering in the Authorized Version (marg. R.V., “cypress”) of berosh (2 Sam. 6:5; 1 Kings 5:8, 10; 6:15, 34; 9:11, etc.), a lofty tree (Isa. 55:13) growing on Lebanon (37:24). Its wood wa"}, {"id": "card_n_4d9d0f7086f4", "title": "Easton: Firmament", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From the Vulgate firmamentum, which is used as the translation of the Hebrew raki’a. This word means simply “expansion.” It denotes the space or expanse like an arch appearing immediately above us. Th"}, {"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_38e4cd414e5d", "title": "Easton: Book", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word has a comprehensive meaning in Scripture. In the Old Testament it is the rendering of the Hebrew word sepher, which properly means a “writing,” and then a “volume” (Ex. 17:14; Deut. 28:58; 2"}, {"id": "card_n_13725052742c", "title": "Easton: Veil, vail", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. mitpahath (Ruth 3:15; marg., “sheet” or “apron;” R.V., “mantle”). In Isa. 3:22 this word is plural, rendered “wimples;” R.V., “shawls” i.e., wraps. (2.) Massekah (Isa. 25:7; in Isa. 28:20 re"}, {"id": "card_n_d264f078d165", "title": "Easton: Courses", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When David was not permitted to build the temple, he proceeded, among the last acts of his life, with the assistance of Zadok and Ahimelech, to organize the priestly and musical services to be conduct"}, {"id": "card_n_f4a0f3c27fd3", "title": "Easton: Holy place", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the two portions into which the tabernacle was divided (Ex. 26:31; 37:17-25; Heb. 9:2). It was 20 cubits long and 10 in height and breadth. It was illuminated by the golden candlestick, as it h"}, {"id": "card_n_aa9b6a63ef20", "title": "Easton: Edrei", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mighty; strength. (1.) One of the chief towns of the kingdom of Bashan (Josh. 12:4, 5). Here Og was defeated by the Israelites, and the strength of the Amorites broken (Num. 21:33-35). It subsequently"}, {"id": "card_n_181ba0e5ff03", "title": "Easton: Argob", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Stony heap, an “island,” as it has been called, of rock about 30 miles by 20, rising 20 or 30 feet above the table-land of Bashan; a region of crags and chasms wild and rugged in the extreme. On this "}]}