{"query": "Easton: Harvest", "count": 17, "results": [{"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_39fb74a3b5b2", "title": "Easton: Pentecost", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I.e., “fiftieth”, found only in the New Testament (Acts 2:1; 20:16; 1 Cor. 16:8). The festival so named is first spoken of in Ex. 23:16 as “the feast of harvest,” and again in Ex. 34:22 as “the day of"}, {"id": "card_n_37284637e771", "title": "Easton: Tabernacles, Feast of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The third of the great annual festivals of the Jews (Lev. 23:33-43). It is also called the “feast of ingathering” (Ex. 23:16; Deut. 16:13). It was celebrated immediately after the harvest, in the mont"}, {"id": "card_c_720714b4d42a", "title": "Easton: Harvest references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_69828a49e331", "title": "Easton: Harvest cites Ruth", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Ruth 2:23 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_67404db1e96d", "title": "Easton: Harvest cites Luke", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Luke 10:2 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_8085eb2fe1ab", "title": "Easton: Harvest cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 4:35 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_716e70d8f1c7", "title": "Easton: Wave offerings", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Parts of peace-offerings were so called, because they were waved by the priests (Ex. 29:24, 26, 27; Lev. 7:20-34; 8:27; 9:21; 10:14, 15, etc.), in token of a solemn special presentation to God. They t"}, {"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_9a7e8f93dacb", "title": "Easton: Thunder", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Often referred to in Scripture (Job 40:9; Ps. 77:18; 104:7). James and John were called by our Lord “sons of thunder” (Mark 3:17). In Job 39:19, instead of “thunder,” as in the Authorized Version, the"}, {"id": "card_n_6728c9c498c3", "title": "Easton: Snow", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Common in Palestine in winter (Ps. 147:16). The snow on the tops of the Lebanon range is almost always within view throughout the whole year. The word is frequently used figuratively by the sacred wri"}, {"id": "card_n_bc90bbe21cfc", "title": "Easton: Heave offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. terumah, (Ex. 29:27) means simply an offering, a present, including all the offerings made by the Israelites as a present. This Hebrew word is frequently employed. Some of the rabbis attach to th"}, {"id": "card_n_a6105732406a", "title": "Easton: Wheat", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the earliest cultivated grains. It bore the Hebrew name hittah, and was extensively cultivated in Palestine. There are various species of wheat. That which Pharaoh saw in his dream was the Trit"}, {"id": "card_n_60a78689f6ad", "title": "Easton: Agriculture", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Tilling the ground (Gen. 2:15; 4:2, 3, 12) and rearing cattle were the chief employments in ancient times. The Egyptians excelled in agriculture. And after the Israelites entered into the possession o"}, {"id": "card_n_d0d57aef1908", "title": "Easton: Basket", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are five different Hebrew words so rendered in the Authorized Version: (1.) A basket (Heb. sal, a twig or osier) for holding bread (Gen. 40:16; Ex. 29:3, 23; Lev. 8:2, 26, 31; Num. 6:15, 17, 19)"}, {"id": "card_n_3eac20d6d4c5", "title": "Easton: First-fruits", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The first-fruits of the ground were offered unto God just as the first-born of man and animals. The law required, (1.) That on the morrow after the Passover Sabbath a sheaf of new corn should be waved"}]}