{"query": "Easton: Fallow-ground", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_7031ddc0463c", "title": "Easton: Fallow-ground", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The expression, “Break up your fallow ground” (Hos. 10:12; Jer. 4:3) means, “Do not sow your seed among thorns”, i.e., break off all your evil habits; clear your hearts of weeds, in order that they ma"}, {"id": "card_n_92650aecd45f", "title": "Easton: Fallow-deer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Deut. 14:5 (R.V., “Wild goat”); 1 Kings 4:23 (R.V., “roebucks”). This animal, called in Hebrew yahmur, from a word meaning “to be red,” is regarded by some as the common fallow-deer, the Cervus dama, "}, {"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_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_fd1d7f3dc6c6", "title": "Easton: Parched ground", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 35:7), Heb. sharab, a “mirage”, a phenomenon caused by the refraction of the rays of the sun on the glowing sands of the desert, causing them suddenly to assume the appearance of a beautiful lak"}, {"id": "card_n_9041d3984d8c", "title": "Easton: Gin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A trap. (1.) Ps. 140:5, 141:9, Amos 3:5, the Hebrew word used, mokesh, means a noose or “snare,” as it is elsewhere rendered (Ps. 18:5; Prov. 13:14, etc.). (2.) Job 18:9, Isa. 8:14, Heb. pah, a plate "}, {"id": "card_c_a419230a8917", "title": "Easton: Fallow-deer cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 4:23 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_310f96717350", "title": "Easton: Plain", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. ‘abel (Judg. 11:33), a “grassy plain” or “meadow.” Instead of “plains of the vineyards,” as in the Authorized Version, the Revised Version has “Abel-cheramim” (q.v.), comp. Judg. 11:22; 2 Ch"}, {"id": "card_n_c6f329082959", "title": "Easton: Pool", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A pond, or reservoir, for holding water (Heb. berekhah; modern Arabic, birket), an artificial cistern or tank. Mention is made of the pool of Gibeon (2 Sam. 2:13); the pool of Hebron (4:12); the upper"}, {"id": "card_n_5e414d7bb99c", "title": "Easton: Cord", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Frequently used in its proper sense, for fastening a tent (Ex. 35:18; 39:40), yoking animals to a cart (Isa. 5:18), binding prisoners (Judg. 15:13; Ps. 2:3; 129:4), and measuring ground (2 Sam. 8;2; P"}, {"id": "card_n_bc9cfddf70cc", "title": "Easton: Naboth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fruits, “the Jezreelite,” was the owner of a portion of ground on the eastern slope of the hill of Jezreel (2 Kings 9:25, 26). This small “plat of ground” seems to have been all he possessed. It was a"}, {"id": "card_n_700fed0286e8", "title": "Easton: Manna", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. man-hu, “What is that?” the name given by the Israelites to the food miraculously supplied to them during their wanderings in the wilderness (Ex. 16:15-35). The name is commonly taken as derived "}, {"id": "card_n_cbfd1b6bddc9", "title": "Easton: Midianite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An Arabian tribe descended from Midian. They inhabited principally the desert north of the peninsula of Arabia. The peninsula of Sinai was the pasture-ground for their flocks. They were virtually the "}, {"id": "card_n_0e9a1a53ebf7", "title": "Easton: Cain", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A possession; a spear. (1.) The first-born son of Adam and Eve (Gen. 4). He became a tiller of the ground, as his brother Abel followed the pursuits of pastoral life. He was “a sullen, self-willed, ha"}, {"id": "card_n_58c5acfcb75e", "title": "Easton: Gethsemane", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Oil-press, the name of an olive-yard at the foot of the Mount of Olives, to which Jesus was wont to retire (Luke 22:39) with his disciples, and which is specially memorable as being the scene of his a"}, {"id": "card_n_29770913899b", "title": "Easton: Jacob’s Well", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(John 4:5, 6). This is one of the few sites in Palestine about which there is no dispute. It was dug by Jacob, and hence its name, in the “parcel of ground” which he purchased from the sons of Hamor ("}, {"id": "card_c_a34c4c70f58e", "title": "Easton: Fallow-deer references Carmel", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Carmel (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_38dd13e94607", "title": "Easton: Fallow-deer references Mount", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Mount (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_b1c976cdaf3f", "title": "Easton: Fallow-deer references South", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions South (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_762f89d493c9", "title": "Easton: Jubilee", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A joyful shout or clangour of trumpets, the name of the great semi-centennial festival of the Hebrews. It lasted for a year. During this year the land was to be fallow, and the Israelites were only pe"}]}