{"query": "Easton: Flax", "count": 6, "results": [{"id": "card_n_e64d86f2233c", "title": "Easton: Flax", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. pishtah, i.e., “peeled”, in allusion to the fact that the stalks of flax when dried were first split or peeled before being steeped in water for the purpose of destroying the pulp). This plant w"}, {"id": "card_n_bfc1e749b2f4", "title": "Easton: Linen", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb., pishet, pishtah, denotes “flax,” of which linen is made (Isa. 19:9); wrought flax, i.e., “linen cloth”, Lev. 13:47, 48, 52, 59; Deut. 22:11. Flax was early cultivated in Egypt (Ex. 9:31), a"}, {"id": "card_c_939cd07ae652", "title": "Easton: Flax references Egypt", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Egypt (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_59e80fa24e6d", "title": "Easton: Flax references Palestine", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Palestine (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_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_86d94af0f9ca", "title": "Easton: Dress", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Materials used. The earliest and simplest an apron of fig-leaves sewed together (Gen. 3:7); then skins of animals (3:21). Elijah’s dress was probably the skin of a sheep (2 Kings 1:8). The Hebrew"}]}