{"query": "Easton: Hebrew", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_0150bf54726b", "title": "Easton: Enchantments", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The rendering of Hebrew latim_ or _lehatim, which means “something covered,” “muffled up;” secret arts, tricks (Ex. 7:11, 22; 8:7, 18), by which the Egyptian magicians imposed on the credulity of"}, {"id": "card_n_afc06cf78cf2", "title": "Easton: Hebrew", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A name applied to the Israelites in Scripture only by one who is a foreigner (Gen. 39:14, 17; 41:12, etc.), or by the Israelites when they speak of themselves to foreigners (40:15; Ex. 1:19), or when "}, {"id": "card_n_4150298825ee", "title": "Easton: Hebrew language", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The language of the Hebrew nation, and that in which the Old Testament is written, with the exception of a few portions in Chaldee. In the Old Testament it is only spoken of as “Jewish” (2 Kings 18:26"}, {"id": "card_n_f20ec40cc2e8", "title": "Easton: By-word", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hebrew millah (Job 30:9), a word or speech, and hence object of talk; Hebrew mashal (Ps. 44:14), a proverb or parable. When it denotes a sharp word of derision, as in Deut. 28:37, 1 Kings 9:7, 2 Chr. "}, {"id": "card_n_b85bf67cf6a4", "title": "Easton: Cassia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Hebrew kiddah’, i.e., “split.” One of the principal spices of the holy anointing oil (Ex. 30:24), and an article of commerce (Ezek. 27:19). It is the inner bark of a tree resembling the cinnamon "}, {"id": "card_n_9f9aa0df6665", "title": "Easton: Bolster", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hebrew word kebir, rendered “pillow” in 1 Sam. 19:13, 16, but in Revised Version marg. “quilt” or “network,” probably means some counterpane or veil intended to protect the head of the sleeper. A "}, {"id": "card_n_639a84073b62", "title": "Easton: Bracelet", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Anklets (Num. 31:50; 2 Sam. 1:10), and with reference to men. (2.) The rendering of a Hebrew word meaning fasteners, found in Gen. 24:22, 30, 47. (3.) In Isa. 3:19, the rendering of a Hebrew word"}, {"id": "card_n_4c4df0e21e58", "title": "Easton: Head-dress", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Not in common use among the Hebrews. It is first mentioned in Ex. 28:40 (A.V., “bonnets;” R.V., “head-tires”). It was used especially for purposes of ornament (Job 29:14; Isa. 3:23; 62:3). The Hebrew "}, {"id": "card_n_274c4fde7982", "title": "Easton: Ostrich", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Lam. 4:3), the rendering of Hebrew pl. enim; so called from its greediness and gluttony. The allusion here is to the habit of the ostrich with reference to its eggs, which is thus described: “The out"}, {"id": "card_n_683b72cdbc78", "title": "Easton: Poetry", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Has been well defined as “the measured language of emotion.” Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man’s relation to God. “Guilt, condemnation, punishment, pardon, redempti"}, {"id": "card_n_466131e6b39b", "title": "Easton: Nephilim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gen. 6:4; Num. 13:33, R.V.), giants, the Hebrew word left untranslated by the Revisers, the name of one of the Canaanitish tribes. The Revisers have, however, translated the Hebrew gibborim, in Gen. "}, {"id": "card_n_16e2e3ffa90f", "title": "Easton: Grecians", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hellenists, Greek-Jews; Jews born in a foreign country, and thus did not speak Hebrew (Acts 6:1; 9:29), nor join in the Hebrew services of the Jews in Palestine, but had synagogues of their own in Jer"}, {"id": "card_n_392e2c401623", "title": "Easton: Target", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 Sam. 17:6, A.V., after the LXX. and Vulg.), a kind of small shield. The margin has “gorget,” a piece of armour for the throat. The Revised Version more correctly renders the Hebrew word (kidon) by "}, {"id": "card_n_7a4e51869b24", "title": "Easton: Gutter", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. tsinnor, (2 Sam. 5:8). This Hebrew word occurs only elsewhere in Ps. 42:7 in the plural, where it is rendered “waterspouts.” It denotes some passage through which water passed; a water-course. In"}, {"id": "card_n_894deeef4639", "title": "Easton: Suburbs", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The immediate vicinity of a city or town (Num. 35:3, 7; Ezek. 45:2). In 2 Kings 23:11 the Hebrew word there used (parvarim) occurs nowhere else. The Revised Version renders it “precincts.” The singula"}, {"id": "card_n_0fcde18f860e", "title": "Easton: Quiver", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The sheath for arrows. The Hebrew word (aspah) thus commonly rendered is found in Job 39:23; Ps. 127:5; Isa. 22:6; 49:2; Jer. 5:16; Lam. 3:13. In Gen. 27:3 this word is the rendering of the Hebrew tel"}, {"id": "card_n_f0e30c9e33e1", "title": "Easton: Flagon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ashishah, (2 Sam. 6:19; 1 Chr. 16:3; Cant. 2:5; Hos. 3:1), meaning properly “a cake of pressed raisins.” “Flagons of wine” of the Authorized Version should be, as in the Revised Version, “cakes o"}, {"id": "card_n_222165569bb6", "title": "Easton: Sabaoth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The transliteration of the Hebrew word tsebha’oth, meaning “hosts,” “armies” (Rom. 9:29; James 5:4). In the LXX. the Hebrew word is rendered by “Almighty.” (See Rev. 4:8; comp. Isa. 6:3.) It may desig"}, {"id": "card_n_8c8bc1600cac", "title": "Easton: Bramble", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Hebrew atad, Judg. 9:14; rendered “thorn,” Ps. 58:9. The LXX. and Vulgate render by rhamnus, a thorny shrub common in Palestine, resembling the hawthorn. (2.) Hebrew hoah, Isa. 34:13 (R.V. “thist"}, {"id": "card_n_5320db689f91", "title": "Easton: Lime", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hebrew word so rendered means “boiling” or “effervescing.” From Isa. 33:12 it appears that lime was made in a kiln lighted by thorn-bushes. In Amos 2:1 it is recorded that the king of Moab “burned"}]}