{"query": "Easton: Flowers", "count": 12, "results": [{"id": "card_n_a109822b0482", "title": "Easton: Flowers", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Very few species of flowers are mentioned in the Bible although they abounded in Palestine. It has been calculated that in Western Syria and Palestine from two thousand to two thousand five hundred pl"}, {"id": "card_n_bbcf7a23b420", "title": "Easton: Camphire", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. copher), mentioned in Cant. 1:14 (R.V., “henna-flowers”); 4:13 (R.V., “henna”), is the al-henna of the Arabs, a native of Egypt, producing clusters of small white and yellow odoriferous flowers,"}, {"id": "card_c_6e49f0b4172a", "title": "Easton: Flowers references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_746df126461b", "title": "Easton: Flowers cites Job", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Job 14:2 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_e35e7fd86ce4", "title": "Easton: Flowers cites James", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites James 1:10 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_2c8ff9de8e8c", "title": "Easton: Garlands", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Acts 14:13). In heathen sacrifices the victims were adorned with fillets and garlands made of wool, with leaves and flowers interwoven. The altar and the priests and attendants were also in like mann"}, {"id": "card_c_6fbe64b8a318", "title": "Easton: Flowers 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_267dad1b1ba8", "title": "Easton: Saffron", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. karkom, Arab. zafran (i.e., “yellow”), mentioned only in Cant. 4:13, 14; the Crocus sativus. Many species of the crocus are found in Palestine. The pistils and stigmata, from the centre of its fl"}, {"id": "card_n_8469242ddaa8", "title": "Easton: Myrtle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 41:19; Neh. 8:15; Zech. 1:8), Hebrew hadas, known in the East by the name as, the Myrtus communis of the botanist. “Although no myrtles are now found on the mount (of Olives), excepting in the g"}, {"id": "card_n_5cd84c6f3b70", "title": "Easton: Mandrakes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hebrew dudaim; i.e., “love-plants”, occurs only in Gen. 30:14-16 and Cant. 7:13. Many interpretations have been given of this word dudaim. It has been rendered “violets,” “Lilies,” “jasmines,” “truffl"}, {"id": "card_n_12baa0a73fd0", "title": "Easton: Crown", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Denotes the plate of gold in the front of the high priest’s mitre (Ex. 29:6; 39:30). The same Hebrew word so rendered (ne’zer) denotes the diadem worn by Saul in battle (2 Sam. 1:10), and also th"}, {"id": "card_n_7d5ce7aee5ff", "title": "Easton: Lily", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hebrew name shushan or shoshan, i.e., “whiteness”, was used as the general name of several plants common to Syria, such as the tulip, iris, anemone, gladiolus, ranunculus, etc. Some interpret it, "}]}