{"query": "Easton: Earth", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_de13aa6f7c0b", "title": "Easton: Tongues, Confusion of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "At Babel, the cause of the early separation of mankind and their division into nations. The descendants of Noah built a tower to prevent their dispersion; but God “confounded their language” (Gen. 11:"}, {"id": "card_n_32809b73b3b4", "title": "Easton: Ark", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Noah’s ark, a building of gopher-wood, and covered with pitch, 300 cubits long, 50 cubits broad, and 30 cubits high (Gen. 6:14-16); an oblong floating house of three stories, with a door in the side a"}, {"id": "card_n_b8d540332416", "title": "Easton: Deluge", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to Noah’s flood, the history of which is recorded in Gen. 7 and 8. It began in the year 2516 B.C., and continued twelve lunar months and ten days, or exactly one solar year. The cause o"}, {"id": "card_c_80fb843548a9", "title": "Easton: Earth references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_c604083652eb", "title": "Easton: Earth cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 5:17 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_ab0582ac501f", "title": "Easton: Footstool", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Connected with a throne (2 Chr. 9:18). Jehovah symbolically dwelt in the holy place between the cherubim above the ark of the covenant. The ark was his footstool (1 Chr. 28:2; Ps. 99:5; 132:7). And as"}, {"id": "card_n_79d96d4ce644", "title": "Easton: Circuit", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The apparent diurnal revolution of the sun round the earth (Ps. 19:6), and the changes of the wind (Eccl. 1:6). In Job 22:14, “in the circuit of heaven” (R.V. marg., “on the vault of heaven”) means th"}, {"id": "card_c_968cfaebc245", "title": "Easton: Earth cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 3:31 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_72d60977d690", "title": "Easton: Admah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Earth, one of the five cities of the vale of Siddim (Gen. 10:19). It was destroyed along with Sodom and Gomorrah (19:24; Deut. 29:23). It is supposed by some to be the same as the Adam of Josh. 3:16, "}, {"id": "card_n_b9c158f9776a", "title": "Easton: Nimrod", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Firm, a descendant of Cush, the son of Ham. He was the first who claimed to be a “mighty one in the earth.” Babel was the beginning of his kingdom, which he gradually enlarged (Gen. 10:8-10). The “lan"}, {"id": "card_n_4bf7572ddb80", "title": "Easton: Offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An oblation, dedicated to God. Thus Cain consecrated to God of the first-fruits of the earth, and Abel of the firstlings of the flock (Gen. 4:3, 4). Under the Levitical system different kinds of offer"}, {"id": "card_n_896eef092cee", "title": "Easton: Peleg", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Division, one of the sons of Eber; so called because “in his days was the earth divided” (Gen. 10:25). Possibly he may have lived at the time of the dispersion from Babel. But more probably the refere"}, {"id": "card_n_222165569bb6", "title": "Easton: Sabaoth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The transliteration of the Hebrew word tsebha’oth, meaning “hosts,” “armies” (Rom. 9:29; James 5:4). In the LXX. the Hebrew word is rendered by “Almighty.” (See Rev. 4:8; comp. Isa. 6:3.) It may desig"}, {"id": "card_n_e045f88f1abc", "title": "Easton: Kingdom of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Matt. 6:33; Mark 1:14, 15; Luke 4:43) = “kingdom of Christ” (Matt. 13:41; 20:21) = “kingdom of Christ and of God” (Eph. 5:5) = “kingdom of David” (Mark 11:10) = “the kingdom” (Matt. 8:12; 13:19) = “k"}, {"id": "card_n_e4de9cdcaa18", "title": "Easton: Den", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A lair of wild beasts (Ps. 10:9; 104:22; Job 37:8); the hole of a venomous reptile (Isa. 11:8); a recess for secrecy “in dens and caves of the earth” (Heb. 11:38); a resort of thieves (Matt. 21:13; Ma"}, {"id": "card_c_664f730ef45b", "title": "Easton: Earth references Jehovah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jehovah (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_5189d59881d5", "title": "Easton: Earth references Judea", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Judea (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_fd3a9c54a375", "title": "Easton: Calneh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fort, one of the four cities founded by Nimrod (Gen. 10:10). It is the modern Niffer, a lofty mound of earth and rubbish situated in the marshes on the left, i.e., the east, bank of the Euphrates, but"}, {"id": "card_n_d86de59288dd", "title": "Easton: Sea, The", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. yam), signifies (1) “the gathering together of the waters,” the ocean (Gen. 1:10); (2) a river, as the Nile (Isa. 19:5), the Euphrates (Isa. 21:1; Jer. 51:36); (3) the Red Sea (Ex. 14:16, 27; 15"}]}