{"query": "Easton: Grove", "count": 9, "results": [{"id": "card_n_10125cc415d2", "title": "Easton: Grove", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. ‘asherah, properly a wooden image, or a pillar representing Ashtoreth, a sensual Canaanitish goddess, probably usually set up in a grove (2 Kings 21:7; 23:4). In the Revised Version the word"}, {"id": "card_n_d23fe251ed6d", "title": "Easton: Asherah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "And pl. Asherim in Revised Version, instead of “grove” and “groves” of the Authorized Version. This was the name of a sensual Canaanitish goddess Astarte, the feminine of the Assyrian Ishtar. Its symb"}, {"id": "card_n_f0b31fe3cfed", "title": "Easton: Mamre", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Manliness. (1.) An Amoritish chief in alliance with Abraham (Gen. 14:13, 24). (2.) The name of the place in the neighbourhood of Hebron (q.v.) where Abraham dwelt (Gen. 23:17, 19; 35:27); called also "}, {"id": "card_c_6bda4605e9cb", "title": "Easton: Grove cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 21:7 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_d14fef834444", "title": "Easton: Grove references Palestine", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Palestine (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_598a3e749813", "title": "Easton: Tamarisk", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ‘eshel (Gen. 21:33; 1 Sam. 22:6; 31:13, in the R.V.; but in A.V., “grove,” “tree”); Arab. asal. Seven species of this tree are found in Palestine. It is a “very graceful tree, with long feathery "}, {"id": "card_n_9da22e417464", "title": "Easton: Elath", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Grove; trees, (Deut. 2:8), also in plural form Eloth (1 Kings 9:26, etc.); called by the Greeks and Romans Elana; a city of Idumea, on the east, i.e., the Elanitic, gulf, or the Gulf of Akabah, of the"}, {"id": "card_n_21c47ce5d677", "title": "Easton: Hanging", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(as a punishment), a mark of infamy inflicted on the dead bodies of criminals (Deut. 21:23) rather than our modern mode of punishment. Criminals were first strangled and then hanged (Nu. 25:4; Deut. 2"}, {"id": "card_n_65f85a353632", "title": "Easton: Jericho", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Place of fragrance, a fenced city in the midst of a vast grove of palm trees, in the plain of Jordan, over against the place where that river was crossed by the Israelites (Josh. 3:16). Its site was n"}]}