{"query": "Easton: Grain", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_c85d8acfd40d", "title": "Easton: Muzzle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Grain in the East is usually thrashed by the sheaves being spread out on a floor, over which oxen and cattle are driven to and fro, till the grain is trodden out. Moses ordained that the ox was not to"}, {"id": "card_n_fc28202352cf", "title": "Easton: Grain", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Used, in Amos 9:9, of a small stone or kernel; in Matt. 13:31, of an individual seed of mustard; in John 12:24, 1 Cor. 15:37, of wheat. The Hebrews sowed only wheat, barley, and spelt; rye and oats ar"}, {"id": "card_n_e88360eb3bc1", "title": "Easton: Gerah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A bean, probably of the carob tree, the smallest weight, and also the smallest piece of money, among the Hebrews, equal to the twentieth part of a shekel (Ex. 30:13; Lev. 27:25; Num. 3:47). This word "}, {"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_536d071b9bb5", "title": "Easton: Flour", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Grain reduced to the form of meal is spoken of in the time of Abraham (Gen. 18:6). As baking was a daily necessity, grain was also ground daily at the mills (Jer. 25:10). The flour mingled with water "}, {"id": "card_n_08cd88673b68", "title": "Easton: Homer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heap, the largest of dry measures, containing about 8 bushels or 1 quarter English = 10 ephahs (Lev. 27:16; Num. 11:32) = a COR. (See OMER.) “Half a homer,” a grain measure mentioned only in Hos. 3:2."}, {"id": "card_c_425dbbe96488", "title": "Easton: Grain references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_78e10d70caa2", "title": "Easton: Grain references Hebrews", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Hebrews. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_be070532ea86", "title": "Easton: Gera", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Grain. (1.) The son of Bela and grandson of Benjamin (1 Chr. 8:3, 5, 7). (2.) The father of Ehud the judge (Judg. 3:15). (3.) The father of Shimei, who so grossly abused David (2 Sam. 16:5; 19:16, 18)"}, {"id": "card_c_871c50e0c21a", "title": "Easton: Grain cites Amos", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Amos 9:9 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_85dbb5538909", "title": "Easton: Grain cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 12:24 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_b68da70030cd", "title": "Easton: Fodder", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. belil, (Job 6:5), meaning properly a mixture or medley (Lat. farrago), “made up of various kinds of grain, as wheat, barley, vetches, and the like, all mixed together, and then sown or given to c"}, {"id": "card_n_c579d6ee4c5a", "title": "Easton: Sparrow", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned among the offerings made by the very poor. Two sparrows were sold for a farthing (Matt. 10:29), and five for two farthings (Luke 12:6). The Hebrew word thus rendered is tsippor, which proper"}, {"id": "card_n_2c86349ac717", "title": "Easton: Heifer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ‘eglah, (Deut. 21:4, 6; Jer. 46:20). Untrained to the yoke (Hos. 10:11); giving milk (Isa. 7:21); ploughing (Judg. 14:18); treading out grain (Jer. 50:11); unsubdued to the yoke an emblem of Juda"}, {"id": "card_n_d178a4db5064", "title": "Easton: Abib", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An ear of corn, the month of newly-ripened grain (Ex. 13:4; 23:15); the first of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, and the seventh of the civil year. It began about the time of the vernal equinox, on 21"}, {"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_e38dc005366a", "title": "Easton: Harvest", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The season for gathering grain or fruit. On the 16th day of Abib (or April) a handful of ripe ears of corn was offered as a first-fruit before the Lord, and immediately after this the harvest commence"}, {"id": "card_n_ccf0128fe8b3", "title": "Easton: Mortar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. homer), cement of lime and sand (Gen. 11:3; Ex. 1:14); also potter’s clay (Isa. 41:25; Nah. 3:14). Also Heb. ‘aphar, usually rendered “dust,” clay or mud used for cement in building (Lev. 14:42,"}, {"id": "card_n_1057856b55ff", "title": "Easton: Weights", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Reduced to English troy-weight, the Hebrew weights were: (1.) The gerah (Lev. 27:25; Num. 3:47), a Hebrew word, meaning a grain or kernel, and hence a small weight. It was the twentieth part of a shek"}, {"id": "card_n_bdfac0c21a9e", "title": "Easton: Ephah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Gloom. (1.) One of the five sons of Midian, and grandson of Abraham (Gen. 25:4). The city of Ephah, to which he gave his name, is mentioned Isa. 60:6, 7. This city, with its surrounding territory, for"}]}