{"query": "Easton: Food", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_b018d41b0b43", "title": "Easton: Food", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Originally the Creator granted the use of the vegetable world for food to man (Gen. 1:29), with the exception mentioned (2:17). The use of animal food was probably not unknown to the antediluvians. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_16838d75beae", "title": "Easton: Raven", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ‘orebh, from a root meaning “to be black” (comp. Cant. 5:11); first mentioned as “sent forth” by Noah from the ark (Gen. 8:7). “Every raven after his kind” was forbidden as food (Lev. 11:15; Deut"}, {"id": "card_n_b003bb46e6aa", "title": "Easton: Blood", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) As food, prohibited in Gen. 9:4, where the use of animal food is first allowed. Comp. Deut. 12:23; Lev. 3:17; 7:26; 17:10-14. The injunction to abstain from blood is renewed in the decree of the "}, {"id": "card_n_884f17aa16cc", "title": "Easton: Locust", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are ten Hebrew words used in Scripture to signify locust. In the New Testament locusts are mentioned as forming part of the food of John the Baptist (Matt. 3:4; Mark 1:6). By the Mosaic law they"}, {"id": "card_c_0527d17116d0", "title": "Easton: Food cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 4:42; 2 Kings 4:38 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_0c83a451b0ff", "title": "Easton: Hart", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ‘ayal), a stag or male deer. It is ranked among the clean animals (Deut. 12:15; 14:5; 15:22), and was commonly killed for food (1 Kings 4:23). The hart is frequently alluded to in the poetical a"}, {"id": "card_c_931dca965452", "title": "Easton: Food cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 21:9 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_98e9a160d30e", "title": "Easton: Food cites Luke", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Luke 24:42 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_e71a10411e33", "title": "Easton: Pygarg", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. dishon, “springing”, (Deut. 14:5), one of the animals permitted for food. It is supposed to be the Antelope addax. It is described as “a large animal, over 3 1/2 feet high at the shoulder, and, w"}, {"id": "card_c_e94b7ffcf136", "title": "Easton: Food 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_9427cb1dfe9c", "title": "Easton: Food references Noah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Noah (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_4cabc6140f31", "title": "Easton: Millet", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. dohan; only in Ezek. 4:9), a small grain, the produce of the Panicum miliaceum of botanists. It is universally cultivated in the East as one of the smaller corn-grasses. This seed is the cenchro"}, {"id": "card_n_fa7d04961956", "title": "Easton: Barley", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A grain much cultivated in Egypt (Ex. 9:31) and in Palestine (Lev. 27:16; Deut. 8:8). It was usually the food of horses (1 Kings 4:28). Barley bread was used by the poorer people (Judg. 7:13; 2 Kings "}, {"id": "card_n_a688ff1674db", "title": "Easton: Beetle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. hargol, meaning “leaper”). Mention of it is made only in Lev. 11:22, where it is obvious the word cannot mean properly the beetle. It denotes some winged creeper with at least four feet, “which "}, {"id": "card_n_954d1069825b", "title": "Easton: Knife", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. hereb, “the waster,” a sharp instrument for circumcision (Josh. 5:2, 3, lit. “knives of flint;” comp. Ex. 4:25); a razor (Ezek. 5:1); a graving tool (Ex. 20:25); an axe (Ezek. 26:9). (2.) He"}, {"id": "card_n_ab6cb76fb3cf", "title": "Easton: Manger", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Luke 2:7, 12, 16), the name (Gr. phatne, rendered “stall” in Luke 13:15) given to the place where the infant Redeemer was laid. It seems to have been a stall or crib for feeding cattle. Stables and m"}, {"id": "card_n_954e0f9a06ad", "title": "Easton: Dove’s dung", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(2 Kings 6:25) has been generally understood literally. There are instances in history of the dung of pigeons being actually used as food during a famine. Compare also the language of Rabshakeh to the"}, {"id": "card_n_661a1c88cae5", "title": "Easton: Roe", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. tsebi), properly the gazelle (Arab. ghazal), permitted for food (Deut. 14:5; comp. Deut. 12:15, 22; 15:22; 1 Kings 4:23), noted for its swiftness and beauty and grace of form (2 Sam. 2:18; 1 Chr"}, {"id": "card_n_faeb01dcd4c1", "title": "Easton: Liver", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. kabhed, “heavy;” hence the liver, as being the heaviest of the viscera, Ex. 29:13, 22; Lev. 3:4, 1, 10, 15) was burnt upon the altar, and not used as sacrificial food. In Ezek. 21:21 there is al"}, {"id": "card_n_12ce9a5d36c8", "title": "Easton: Bird", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Birds are divided in the Mosaic law into two classes, (1) the clean (Lev. 1:14-17; 5:7-10; 14:4-7), which were offered in sacrifice; and (2) the unclean (Lev. 11:13-20). When offered in sacrifice, the"}]}