{"query": "Easton: Fountain of the Virgin", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_c_602522a050d7", "title": "Easton: Bethesda references Fountain of the Virgin", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Fountain of the Virgin (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_28fe3610901c", "title": "Easton: En-rogel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fountain of the treaders; i.e., “foot-fountain;” also called the “fullers’ fountain,” because fullers here trod the clothes in water. It has been identified with the “fountain of the virgin” (q.v.), t"}, {"id": "card_n_681bd049134f", "title": "Easton: Fountain of the Virgin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The perennial source from which the Pool of Siloam (q.v.) is supplied, the waters flowing in a copious stream to it through a tunnel cut through the rock, the actual length of which is 1,750 feet. The"}, {"id": "card_n_3592f0f67c5f", "title": "Easton: Gihon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A stream. (1.) One of the four rivers of Eden (Gen. 2:13). It has been identified with the Nile. Others regard it as the Oxus, or the Araxes, or the Ganges. But as, according to the sacred narrative, "}, {"id": "card_n_01f8fe1a70d7", "title": "Easton: Virgin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In a prophecy concerning our Lord, Isaiah (7:14) says, “A virgin [R.V. marg., ‘the virgin’] shall conceive, and bear a son” (comp. Luke 1:31-35). The people of the land of Zidon are thus referred to b"}, {"id": "card_n_fa1a942e187a", "title": "Easton: Bethesda", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "House of mercy, a reservoir (Gr. kolumbethra, “a swimming bath”) with five porches, close to the sheep-gate or market (Neh. 3:1; John 5:2). Eusebius the historian (A.D. 330) calls it “the sheep-pool.”"}, {"id": "card_n_5224093cb47e", "title": "Easton: Siloam, Pool of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sent or sending. Here a notable miracle was wrought by our Lord in giving sight to the blind (John 9:7-11). It has been identified with the Birket Silwan in the lower Tyropoeon valley, to the south-ea"}, {"id": "card_n_889ad730ca7a", "title": "Easton: Jordan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. Yarden, “the descender;” Arab. Nahr-esh-Sheriah, “the watering-place” the chief river of Palestine. It flows from north to south down a deep valley in the centre of the country. The name descende"}, {"id": "card_n_0a20dba3e80e", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_04_10: The Voice of the Beloved Thou must frequently betake thee to the Fountain of ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Voice of the Beloved Thou must frequently betake thee to the Fountain of grace and divine mercy, to the Fountain of goodness and all purity; to the end that thou mayest obtain the healing of thy p"}, {"id": "card_n_a3f4ed09ea98", "title": "Easton: Fountain", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ‘ain; i.e., “eye” of the water desert), a natural source of living water. Palestine was a “land of brooks of water, of fountains, and depths that spring out of valleys and hills” (Deut. 8:7; 11:"}, {"id": "card_n_11df78bcfc57", "title": "Easton: Cave", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are numerous natural caves among the limestone rocks of Syria, many of which have been artificially enlarged for various purposes. The first notice of a cave occurs in the history of Lot (Gen. 1"}, {"id": "card_n_01067474d2d0", "title": "Easton: Christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Anointed, the Greek translation of the Hebrew word rendered “Messiah” (q.v.), the official title of our Lord, occurring five hundred and fourteen times in the New Testament. It denotes that he was ano"}, {"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_c_2b13e6a92f36", "title": "Easton: Fountain of the Virgin 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_21b7c5dff0a3", "title": "Easton: Fountain of the Virgin references Pool", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Pool (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_cad0d491b8cc", "title": "Easton: Harod", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Palpitation, a fountain near which Gideon and his army encamped on the morning of the day when they encountered and routed the Midianites (Judg. 7). It was south of the hill Moreh. The present ‘Ain Ja"}, {"id": "card_n_dc6d2c36d6cd", "title": "Easton: Engedi", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fountain of the kid, place in the wilderness of Judah (Josh. 15:62), on the western shore of the Dead Sea (Ezek. 47:10), and nearly equidistant from both extremities. To the wilderness near this town "}, {"id": "card_n_5fb49f6d21b3", "title": "Easton: Mary", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hebrew Miriam. (1.) The wife of Joseph, the mother of Jesus, called the “Virgin Mary,” though never so designated in Scripture (Matt. 2:11; Acts 1:14). Little is known of her personal history. Her gen"}, {"id": "card_n_ee555d5c8204", "title": "Easton: Meribah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Quarrel or strife. (1.) One of the names given by Moses to the fountain in the desert of Sin, near Rephidim, which issued from the rock in Horeb, which he smote by the divine command, “because of the "}, {"id": "card_n_c20d100a8ef9", "title": "Easton: Pools of Solomon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to three large open cisterns at Etam, at the head of the Wady Urtas, having an average length of 400 feet by 220 in breadth, and 20 to 30 in depth. These pools derive their chief supply"}]}