{"query": "Easton: Ear", "count": 11, "results": [{"id": "card_n_8228af0d2ace", "title": "Easton: Ear", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Used frequently in a figurative sense (Ps. 34:15). To “uncover the ear” is to show respect to a person (1 Sam. 20:2 marg.). To have the “ear heavy”, or to have “uncircumcised ears” (Isa. 6:10), is to "}, {"id": "card_n_98bde3308459", "title": "Easton: Earrings", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Rings properly for the ear (Gen. 35:4; Num. 31:50; Ezek. 16:12). In Gen. 24:47 the word means a nose-jewel, and is so rendered in the Revised Version. In Isa. 3:20 the Authorized Version has “ear-ring"}, {"id": "card_n_f9bd9bc02f9e", "title": "Easton: Awl", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An instrument only referred to in connection with the custom of boring the ear of a slave (Ex. 21:6; Deut. 15:17), in token of his volunteering perpetual service when he might be free. (Comp. Ps. 40:6"}, {"id": "card_n_a5acc7304b83", "title": "Easton: Cauls", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In Isa. 3:18 this word (Heb. shebisim), in the marg. “networks,” denotes network caps to contain the hair, worn by females. Others explain it as meaning “wreaths worn round the forehead, reaching from"}, {"id": "card_n_7e294134a527", "title": "Easton: Collar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. peh), means in Job 30:18 the mouth or opening of the garment that closes round the neck in the same way as a tunic (Ex. 39:23). The “collars” (Heb. netiphoth) among the spoils of the Midianites "}, {"id": "card_n_4c82845bf946", "title": "Easton: Tares", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The bearded darnel, mentioned only in Matt. 13:25-30. It is the Lolium temulentum, a species of rye-grass, the seeds of which are a strong soporific poison. It bears the closest resemblance to wheat t"}, {"id": "card_n_10b38a8777b6", "title": "Easton: Bolled", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ex. 9:31), meaning “swollen or podded for seed,” was adopted in the Authorized Version from the version of Coverdale (1535). The Revised Version has in the margin “was in bloom,” which is the more pr"}, {"id": "card_n_b5974b5050f2", "title": "Easton: Malchus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Reigning, the personal servant or slave of the high priest Caiaphas. He is mentioned only by John. Peter cut off his right ear in the garden of Gethsemane (John 18:10). But our Lord cured it with a to"}, {"id": "card_n_d178a4db5064", "title": "Easton: Abib", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An ear of corn, the month of newly-ripened grain (Ex. 13:4; 23:15); the first of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, and the seventh of the civil year. It began about the time of the vernal equinox, on 21"}, {"id": "card_n_e3713c4d742c", "title": "Easton: Thorn in the flesh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(2 Cor. 12:7-10). Many interpretations have been given of this passage. (1.) Roman Catholic writers think that it denotes suggestions to impiety. (2.) Luther, Calvin, and other Reformers interpret the"}, {"id": "card_n_014bdc606e4d", "title": "Easton: Shibboleth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "River, or an ear of corn. The tribes living on the east of Jordan, separated from their brethren on the west by the deep ravines and the rapid river, gradually came to adopt peculiar customs, and from"}]}