{"query": "Easton: Gold", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_6cdfeed05f3d", "title": "Easton: Beaten gold", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In Num. 8:4, means “turned” or rounded work in gold. The Greek Version, however, renders the word “solid gold;” the Revised Version, “beaten work of gold.” In 1 Kings 10:16, 17, it probably means “mix"}, {"id": "card_n_8a0f6905b575", "title": "Easton: Gold", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. zahab, so called from its yellow colour (Ex. 25:11; 1 Chr. 28:18; 2 Chr. 3:5). (2.) Heb. segor, from its compactness, or as being enclosed or treasured up; thus precious or “fine gold” (1 Ki"}, {"id": "card_n_b824114e7478", "title": "Easton: Shekel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Weight, the common standard both of weight and value among the Hebrews. It is estimated at 220 English grains, or a little more than half an ounce avoirdupois. The “shekel of the sanctuary” (Ex. 30:13"}, {"id": "card_n_fa9c188fee47", "title": "Easton: Coin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Before the Exile the Jews had no regularly stamped money. They made use of uncoined shekels or talents of silver, which they weighed out (Gen. 23:16; Ex. 38:24; 2 Sam. 18:12). Probably the silver ingo"}, {"id": "card_n_1ab6b9f04639", "title": "Easton: Michtam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Writing; i.e., a poem or song found in the titles of Ps. 16; 56-60. Some translate the word “golden”, i.e., precious. It is rendered in the LXX. by a word meaning “tablet inscription” or a “stelograph"}, {"id": "card_n_8090780d2b74", "title": "Easton: Mercy-seat", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. kapporeth, a “covering;” LXX. and N.T., hilasterion; Vulg., propitiatorium), the covering or lid of the ark of the covenant (q.v.). It was of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, or perhaps rather a"}, {"id": "card_n_96d9dee329be", "title": "Easton: Ephod", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Something girt, a sacred vestment worn originally by the high priest (Ex. 28:4), afterwards by the ordinary priest (1 Sam. 22:18), and characteristic of his office (1 Sam. 2:18, 28; 14:3). It was worn"}, {"id": "card_n_1fb24ce8a471", "title": "Easton: Cup", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A wine-cup (Gen. 40:11, 21), various forms of which are found on Assyrian and Egyptian monuments. All Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold (1 Kings 10: 21). The cups mentioned in the New Testament "}, {"id": "card_n_ebea07e0d389", "title": "Easton: Censer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The vessel in which incense was presented on “the golden altar” before the Lord in the temple (Ex. 30:1-9). The priest filled the censer with live coal from the sacred fire on the altar of burnt-offer"}, {"id": "card_n_f4a0f3c27fd3", "title": "Easton: Holy place", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the two portions into which the tabernacle was divided (Ex. 26:31; 37:17-25; Heb. 9:2). It was 20 cubits long and 10 in height and breadth. It was illuminated by the golden candlestick, as it h"}, {"id": "card_n_2bb4cd399edc", "title": "Easton: Shewbread", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ex. 25:30 (R.V. marg., “presence bread”); 1 Chr. 9:32 (marg., “bread of ordering”); Num. 4:7: called “hallowed bread” (R.V., “holy bread”) in 1 Sam. 21:1-6. This bread consisted of twelve loaves made "}, {"id": "card_n_420182d06d27", "title": "Easton: Maneh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Portion (Ezek. 45:12), rendered “pound” (1 Kings 10:17; Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:71, 72), a weight variously estimated, probably about 2 1/2 or 3 lbs. A maneh of gold consisted of a hundred common shekels (q"}, {"id": "card_c_4e6008658d6b", "title": "Easton: Gold references Isaiah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Isaiah. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_6e2a120db442", "title": "Easton: Beaten gold cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 10:16 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_63456e868a2e", "title": "Easton: Gold cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 6:20; 1 Kings 9:28 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_2b4042b8276f", "title": "Easton: Gold cites Job", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Job 28:17; Job 36:19; Job 28:16 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_09dbda924f10", "title": "Easton: Parvaim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name of a country from which Solomon obtained gold for the temple (2 Chr. 3:6). Some have identified it with Ophir, but it is uncertain whether it is even the name of a place. It may simply, as so"}, {"id": "card_n_39146bae3d3d", "title": "Easton: Ceiling", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The covering (1 Kings 7:3, 7) of the inside roof and walls of a house with planks of wood (2 Chr. 3:5; Jer. 22:14). Ceilings were sometimes adorned with various ornaments in stucco, gold, silver, gems"}, {"id": "card_n_028d70cd1e95", "title": "Easton: Bezer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ore of gold or silver. (1.) A city of the Reubenites; one of the three cities of refuge on the east of Jordan (Deut. 4: 43; Josh. 20:8). It has been identified with the modern ruined village of Burazi"}, {"id": "card_n_4a98ab3212d9", "title": "Easton: Talent", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of silver contained 3,000 shekels (Ex. 38:25, 26), and was equal to 94 3/7 lbs. avoirdupois. The Greek talent, however, as in the LXX., was only 82 1/4 lbs. It was in the form of a circular mass, as t"}]}