{"query": "Easton: Fish", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_72f635ddf5e8", "title": "Easton: Fish", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called dag by the Hebrews, a word denoting great fecundity (Gen. 9:2; Num. 11:22; Jonah 2:1, 10). No fish is mentioned by name either in the Old or in the New Testament. Fish abounded in the Mediterra"}, {"id": "card_n_c438b99ff841", "title": "Easton: Dagon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Little fish; diminutive from dag = a fish, the fish-god; the national god of the Philistines (Judg. 16:23). This idol had the body of a fish with the head and hands of a man. It was an Assyrio-Babylon"}, {"id": "card_n_8e6caf7324a9", "title": "Easton: Fishing, the art of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was prosecuted with great industry in the waters of Palestine. It was from the fishing-nets that Jesus called his disciples (Mark 1:16-20), and it was in a fishing-boat he rebuked the winds and the wa"}, {"id": "card_c_6255e69e58d4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_033: Man therefore, whom Thou hast made after Thine own image, received not domini... references Fish", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Fish (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_3ecabd10983c", "title": "Easton: Hook", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. hah, a “ring” inserted in the nostrils of animals to which a cord was fastened for the purpose of restraining them (2 Kings 19:28; Isa. 37:28, 29; Ezek. 29:4; 38:4). “The Orientals make use "}, {"id": "card_n_ccc7cf5e4e48", "title": "Easton: Net", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In use among the Hebrews for fishing, hunting, and fowling. The fishing-net was probably constructed after the form of that used by the Egyptians (Isa. 19:8). There were three kinds of nets. (1.) The "}, {"id": "card_c_5888cae45c35", "title": "Easton: Fish references Hebrews", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Hebrews. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_e202b4a08ac8", "title": "Easton: Fish cites Jonah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Jonah 2:1 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_ad7c6723538c", "title": "Easton: Onycha", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A nail; claw; hoof, (Heb. sheheleth; Ex. 30:34), a Latin word applied to the operculum, i.e., the claw or nail of the strombus or wing-shell, a univalve common in the Red Sea. The opercula of these sh"}, {"id": "card_n_8b46f89de2b3", "title": "Easton: Osprey", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ‘ozniyyah, an unclean bird according to the Mosaic law (Lev. 11:13; Deut. 14:12); the fish-eating eagle (Pandion haliaetus); one of the lesser eagles. But the Hebrew word may be taken to denote t"}, {"id": "card_c_7cd238360cb7", "title": "Easton: Fish references Bethsaida", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Bethsaida (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_ed4a399b6f41", "title": "Easton: Fish references Galilee", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Galilee (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_4fa87e478b1a", "title": "Easton: Fish references Jerusalem", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jerusalem (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_55f3080d271a", "title": "Easton: Fish references Jordan", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jordan (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_6a347eb01bbd", "title": "Easton: Chemosh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The destroyer, subduer, or fish-god, the god of the Moabites (Num. 21:29; Jer. 48:7, 13, 46). The worship of this god, “the abomination of Moab,” was introduced at Jerusalem by Solomon (1 Kings 11:7),"}, {"id": "card_n_07b89f961a31", "title": "Easton: Jezreel, Fountain of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Where Saul encamped before the battle of Gilboa (1 Sam. 29:1). In the valley under Zerin there are two considerable springs, one of which, perhaps that here referred to, “flows from under a sort of ca"}, {"id": "card_n_833764124fb0", "title": "Easton: Scarlet", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This dye was obtained by the Egyptians from the shell-fish Carthamus tinctorius; and by the Hebrews from the Coccus ilicis, an insect which infests oak trees, called kermes by the Arabians. This colou"}, {"id": "card_n_eb934acbad16", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §4: May I not write in such a style as this?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "May I not write in such a style as this? In such a method, too, and yet not miss My end--thy good? Why may it not be done? Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none. Yea, dark or bright, if"}, {"id": "card_n_9694c2f8971e", "title": "Easton: Pelicans", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Are frequently met with at the waters of Merom and the Sea of Galilee. The pelican is ranked among unclean birds (Lev. 11:18; Deut. 14:17). It is of an enormous size, being about 6 feet long, with win"}, {"id": "card_n_e2f84b7c548a", "title": "Easton: Bethsaida", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "House of fish. (1.) A town in Galilee, on the west side of the sea of Tiberias, in the “land of Gennesaret.” It was the native place of Peter, Andrew, and Philip, and was frequently resorted to by Jes"}]}