{"query": "Easton: El-elohe-Isreal", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_0b5606e6df79", "title": "Easton: El-elohe-Isreal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mighty one; God of Israel, the name which Jacob gave to the alter which he erected on the piece of land where he pitched his tent before Shechem, and which he afterwards purchased from the sons of Ham"}, {"id": "card_c_bd97a24beb09", "title": "Easton: El-elohe-Isreal references Hamor", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Hamor (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_2c9d5d62ae7a", "title": "Easton: El-elohe-Isreal references Shechem", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Shechem (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_n_7753f3a8e9a3", "title": "Easton: Dalmanutha", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A place on the west of the Sea of Galilee, mentioned only in Mark 8:10. In the parallel passage it is said that Christ came “into the borders of Magdala” (Matt. 15:39). It is plain, then, that Dalmanu"}, {"id": "card_n_9515ae317a6c", "title": "Easton: Stream of Egypt", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 27:12), the Wady el-‘Arish, called also “the river of Egypt,” R.V., “brook of Egypt” (Num. 34:5; Josh. 15:4; 2 Kings 24:7). It is the natural boundary of Egypt. Occasionally in winter, when heav"}, {"id": "card_n_7ba03035b5c9", "title": "Easton: Arabah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Plain, in the Revised Version of 2 Kings 14:25; Josh. 3:16; 8:14; 2 Sam. 2:29; 4:7 (in all these passages the A.V. has “plain”); Amos 6:14 (A.V. “wilderness”). This word is found in the Authorized Ver"}, {"id": "card_n_7f6113d9ae5f", "title": "Easton: Emmaus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hot baths, a village “three-score furlongs” from jerusalem, where our Lord had an interview with two of his disciples on the day of his resurrection (Luke 24:13). This has been identified with the mod"}, {"id": "card_n_7e19a1718b3e", "title": "Easton: Laish", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A lion. (1.) A city of the Sidonians, in the extreme north of Palestine (Judg. 18:7, 14); called also Leshem (Josh. 19:47) and Dan (Judg. 18:7, 29; Jer. 8:16). It lay near the sources of the Jordan, a"}, {"id": "card_n_86d875e8921d", "title": "Easton: Oak", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are six Hebrew words rendered “oak.” (1.) ‘El occurs only in the word El-paran (Gen. 14:6). The LXX. renders by “terebinth.” In the plural form this word occurs in Isa. 1:29; 57:5 (A.V. marg. an"}, {"id": "card_n_0c9b95cc1a99", "title": "Easton: Bethel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "House of God. (1.) A place in Central Palestine, about 10 miles north of Jerusalem, at the head of the pass of Michmash and Ai. It was originally the royal Canaanite city of Luz (Gen. 28:19). The name"}, {"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_bfcceeae1179", "title": "Easton: Pithom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Egyptian, Pa-Tum, “house of Tum,” the sun-god, one of the “treasure” cities built for Pharaoh Rameses II. by the Israelites (Ex. 1:11). It was probably the Patumos of the Greek historian Herodotus. It"}, {"id": "card_n_2a235473b1eb", "title": "Easton: Red Sea", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The sea so called extends along the west coast of Arabia for about 1,400 miles, and separates Asia from Africa. It is connected with the Indian Ocean, of which it is an arm, by the Strait of Bab-el-Ma"}, {"id": "card_n_fe4bf814bb06", "title": "Easton: Merom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Height, a lake in Northern Palestine through which the Jordan flows. It was the scene of the third and last great victory gained by Joshua over the Canaanites (Josh. 11:5-7). It is not again mentioned"}, {"id": "card_n_49f06ed370b0", "title": "Easton: Ichabod", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When the tidings of the disastrous defeat of the Israelites in the battle against the Philistines near to Mizpeh were carried to Shiloh, the wife of Phinehas “was near to be delivered. And when she he"}, {"id": "card_n_4f4a1850fb90", "title": "Easton: Exodus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The great deliverance wrought for the children of Isreal when they were brought out of the land of Egypt with “a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm” (Ex 12:51; Deut. 26:8; Ps 114; 136), about B."}, {"id": "card_n_349d058a7df5", "title": "Easton: Gebim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cisterns, (rendered “pits,” Jer. 14:3; “locusts,” Isa. 33:4), a small place north of Jerusalem, whose inhabitants fled at the approach of the Assyrian army (Isa. 10:31). It is probably the modern el-I"}, {"id": "card_n_bda8b2ea4ab1", "title": "Easton: Madmannah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Dunghill, the modern el-Minyay, 15 miles south-south-west of Gaza (Josh. 15:31; 1 Chr. 2:49), in the south of Judah. The Pal. Mem., however, suggest Umm Deimneh, 12 miles north-east of Beersheba, as t"}, {"id": "card_n_acd5d25b3bb9", "title": "Easton: Arvad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Wandering, (Ezek. 27:8), a small island and city on the coast of Syria, mentioned as furnishing mariners and soldiers for Tyre. The inhabitants were called Arvadites. The name is written Aruada or Ara"}, {"id": "card_n_47f446ed7a6e", "title": "Easton: Kartan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Double city, a town of Naphali, assigned to the Gershonite Levites, and one of the cities of refuge (Josh. 21:32). It was probably near the north-western shore of the Sea of Tiberias, identical with t"}]}