{"query": "Easton: Gilead, Balm of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_6ef003c76c13", "title": "Easton: Gilead, Balm of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The region of Gilead abounded in spices and aromatic gums, which were exported to Egypt and Tyre (Gen. 37:25; Jer. 8:22; 46:11; Ezek. 27:17). The word “balm” is a contracted form of “balsam,” a word d"}, {"id": "card_c_00cfa95ee2b1", "title": "Easton: Gilead, Balm of references Gilead", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Gilead (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_927d56598d47", "title": "Easton: Balm", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Contracted from Bal’sam, a general name for many oily or resinous substances which flow or trickle from certain trees or plants when an incision is made through the bark. (1.) This word occurs in the "}, {"id": "card_n_ab797d436db3", "title": "Easton: Gilead", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hill of testimony, (Gen. 31:21), a mountainous region east of Jordan. From its mountainous character it is called “the mount of Gilead” (Gen. 31:25). It is called also “the land of Gilead” (Num. 32:1)"}, {"id": "card_n_c7045cda2002", "title": "Easton: Jabesh-Gilead", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A town on the east of Jordan, on the top of one of the green hills of Gilead, within the limits of the half tribe of Manasseh, and in full view of Beth-shan. It is first mentioned in connection with t"}, {"id": "card_n_475b8a5ff733", "title": "Easton: Ramoth-gilead", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heights of Gilead, a city of refuge on the east of Jordan; called “Ramoth in Gilead” (Deut. 4:43; Josh. 20:8; 21:38). Here Ahab, who joined Jehoshaphat in an endeavour to rescue it from the hands of t"}, {"id": "card_c_54f64e6370f9", "title": "Easton: Balm references Gilead", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Gilead (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_d9dd11f693ee", "title": "Easton: Tishbite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Elijah the prophet was thus named (1 Kings 17:1; 21:17, 28, etc.). In 1 Kings 17:1 the word rendered “inhabitants” is in the original the same as that rendered “Tishbite,” hence that verse may be read"}, {"id": "card_n_01d69631e5d2", "title": "Easton: Jephthah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whom God sets free, or the breaker through, a “mighty man of valour” who delivered Israel from the oppression of the Ammonites (Judg. 11:1-33), and judged Israel six years (12:7). He has been describe"}, {"id": "card_n_cbae0535dc6f", "title": "Easton: Mizpah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Or Miz’peh, watch-tower; the look-out. (1.) A place in Gilead, so named by Laban, who overtook Jacob at this spot (Gen. 31:49) on his return to Palestine from Padan-aram. Here Jacob and Laban set up t"}, {"id": "card_c_e1b7d61bb16f", "title": "Easton: Ephraim, Wood of references Gilead", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Gilead (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_7d6fe439ee2b", "title": "Easton: Reuben, Tribe of references Gilead", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Gilead (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_eaab681b69d5", "title": "Easton: Refuge, Cities of references Gilead", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Gilead (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_19006cf8f9e2", "title": "Easton: Forest", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ya’ar, meaning a dense wood, from its luxuriance. Thus all the great primeval forests of Syria (Eccl. 2:6; Isa. 44:14; Jer. 5:6; Micah 5:8). The most extensive was the trans-Jordanic forest of Ep"}, {"id": "card_n_32cb09b0f521", "title": "Easton: Reuben, Tribe of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "At the Exodus numbered 46,500 male adults, from twenty years old and upwards (Num. 1:20, 21), and at the close of the wilderness wanderings they numbered only 43,730 (26:7). This tribe united with tha"}, {"id": "card_c_e25eebccf5e1", "title": "Easton: Gilead, Balm of 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_095ee20f767e", "title": "Easton: Gilead, Balm of references Tyre", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Tyre (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_a7883bf5ce3a", "title": "Easton: Jehu", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah is he. (1.) The son of Obed, and father of Azariah (1 Chr. 2:38). (2.) One of the Benjamite slingers that joined David at Ziklag (1 Chr. 12:3). (3.) The son of Hanani, a prophet of Judah (1 Ki"}, {"id": "card_n_f24a6ecc4dd4", "title": "Easton: Mesha", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Middle district, Vulgate, Messa. (1.) A plain in that part of the boundaries of Arabia inhabited by the descendants of Joktan (Gen. 10:30). (2.) Heb. meysh’a, “deliverance,” the eldest son of Caleb (1"}, {"id": "card_n_bd79da358d27", "title": "Easton: Exile", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Of the kingdom of Israel. In the time of Pekah, Tiglath-pileser II. carried away captive into Assyria (2 Kings 15:29; comp. Isa. 10:5, 6) a part of the inhabitants of Galilee and of Gilead (B.C. "}]}