{"query": "Easton: Jealousy, Waters of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_fee87fd78476", "title": "Easton: Jealousy, Waters of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Water which the suspected wife was required to drink, so that the result might prove her guilt or innocence (Num. 5:12-17, 27). We have no record of this form of trial having been actually resorted to"}, {"id": "card_n_67a10b6fda93", "title": "Easton: Deacon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Anglicized form of the Greek word diaconos, meaning a “runner,” “messenger,” “servant.” For a long period a feeling of mutual jealousy had existed between the “Hebrews,” or Jews proper, who spoke the "}, {"id": "card_n_fe28ba888e84", "title": "Easton: Kishon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Winding, a winter torrent of Central Palestine, which rises about the roots of Tabor and Gilboa, and passing in a northerly direction through the plains of Esdraelon and Acre, falls into the Mediterra"}, {"id": "card_n_233495145001", "title": "Easton: Conduit", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A water-course or channel (Job 38:25). The “conduit of the upper pool” (Isa. 7:3) was formed by Hezekiah for the purpose of conveying the waters from the upper pool in the valley of Gihon to the west "}, {"id": "card_n_ca2aede43330", "title": "Easton: Medeba", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Waters of quiet, an ancient Moabite town (Num. 21:30). It was assigned to the tribe of Reuben (Josh. 13:16). Here was fought the great battle in which Joab defeated the Ammonites and their allies (1 C"}, {"id": "card_n_11462bbce2a6", "title": "Easton: Megiddo", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Place of troops, originally one of the royal cities of the Canaanites (Josh. 12:21), belonged to the tribe of Manasseh (Judg. 1:27), but does not seem to have been fully occupied by the Israelites til"}, {"id": "card_n_a3f4ed09ea98", "title": "Easton: Fountain", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ‘ain; i.e., “eye” of the water desert), a natural source of living water. Palestine was a “land of brooks of water, of fountains, and depths that spring out of valleys and hills” (Deut. 8:7; 11:"}, {"id": "card_n_25e270b1d029", "title": "Easton: Amorites", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Highlanders, or hillmen, the name given to the descendants of one of the sons of Canaan (Gen. 14:7), called Amurra or Amurri in the Assyrian and Egyptian inscriptions. On the early Babylonian monument"}, {"id": "card_n_2ca9d4b75757", "title": "Easton: Ur", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Light, or the moon city, a city “of the Chaldees,” the birthplace of Haran (Gen. 11:28, 31), the largest city of Shinar or northern Chaldea, and the principal commercial centre of the country as well "}, {"id": "card_n_3592f0f67c5f", "title": "Easton: Gihon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A stream. (1.) One of the four rivers of Eden (Gen. 2:13). It has been identified with the Nile. Others regard it as the Oxus, or the Araxes, or the Ganges. But as, according to the sacred narrative, "}, {"id": "card_n_0e26c67f02b1", "title": "Easton: Rabbah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Or Rab’bath, great. (1.) “Rabbath of the children of Ammon,” the chief city of the Ammonites, among the eastern hills, some 20 miles east of the Jordan, on the southern of the two streams which united"}, {"id": "card_n_4d9d0f7086f4", "title": "Easton: Firmament", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From the Vulgate firmamentum, which is used as the translation of the Hebrew raki’a. This word means simply “expansion.” It denotes the space or expanse like an arch appearing immediately above us. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_a7c3c41d811c", "title": "Easton: Abel-beth-maachah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Meadow of the house of Maachah, a city in the north of Palestine, in the neighbourhood of Dan and Ijon, in the tribe of Naphtali. It was a place of considerable strength and importance. It is called a"}, {"id": "card_n_f482062a5171", "title": "Easton: Dead Sea", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given by Greek writers of the second century to that inland sea called in Scripture the “salt sea” (Gen. 14:3; Num. 34:12), the “sea of the plain” (Deut. 3:17), the “east sea” (Ezek. 47:18; J"}, {"id": "card_n_7e19a1718b3e", "title": "Easton: Laish", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A lion. (1.) A city of the Sidonians, in the extreme north of Palestine (Judg. 18:7, 14); called also Leshem (Josh. 19:47) and Dan (Judg. 18:7, 29; Jer. 8:16). It lay near the sources of the Jordan, a"}, {"id": "card_n_b649380187cf", "title": "Easton: Horse-leech", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Occurs only in Prov. 30:15 (Heb. ‘alukah); the generic name for any blood-sucking annelid. There are various species in the marshes and pools of Palestine. That here referred to, the Hoemopis, is rema"}, {"id": "card_n_ec0c50ab4614", "title": "Easton: Wormwood", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. la’anah, the Artemisia absinthium of botanists. It is noted for its intense bitterness (Deut. 29:18; Prov. 5:4; Jer. 9:15; Amos 5:7). It is a type of bitterness, affliction, remorse, punitive suf"}, {"id": "card_n_8e6caf7324a9", "title": "Easton: Fishing, the art of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was prosecuted with great industry in the waters of Palestine. It was from the fishing-nets that Jesus called his disciples (Mark 1:16-20), and it was in a fishing-boat he rebuked the winds and the wa"}, {"id": "card_n_f2924f2030c7", "title": "Easton: Adultery", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Conjugal infidelity. An adulterer was a man who had illicit intercourse with a married or a betrothed woman, and such a woman was an adulteress. Intercourse between a married man and an unmarried woma"}, {"id": "card_n_c27693894058", "title": "Easton: Oil", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Only olive oil seems to have been used among the Hebrews. It was used for many purposes: for anointing the body or the hair (Ex. 29:7; 2 Sam. 14:2; Ps. 23:5; 92:10; 104:15; Luke 7:46); in some of the "}]}