{"query": "Easton: Measure", "count": 18, "results": [{"id": "card_n_ce6428cb4ceb", "title": "Easton: Cor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This Hebrew word, untranslated, denotes a round vessel used as a measure both for liquids and solids. It was equal to one homer, and contained ten ephahs in dry and ten baths in liquid measure (Ezek. "}, {"id": "card_n_860dacfc4990", "title": "Easton: Measure", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Several words are so rendered in the Authorized Version. (1.) Those which are indefinite. (a) Hok, Isa. 5:14, elsewhere “statute.” (b) Mad, Job 11:9; Jer. 13:25, elsewhere “garment.” (c) Middah, the w"}, {"id": "card_n_f61c2f03f909", "title": "Easton: Bath", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Hebrew liquid measure, the tenth part of an homer (1 Kings 7:26, 38; Ezek. 45:10, 14). It contained 8 gallons 3 quarts of our measure. “Ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath” (Isa. 5:10) denote"}, {"id": "card_n_97a14824ddce", "title": "Easton: Log", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The smallest measure for liquids used by the Hebrews (Lev. 14:10, 12, 15, 21, 24), called in the Vulgate sextarius. It is the Hebrew unit of measure of capacity, and is equal to the contents of six or"}, {"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"}, {"id": "card_n_f6311ea6cd68", "title": "Easton: Cubit", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ‘ammah; i.e., “mother of the arm,” the fore-arm, is a word derived from the Latin cubitus, the lower arm. It is difficult to determine the exact length of this measure, from the uncertainty wheth"}, {"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_0b4fc2f1da3a", "title": "Easton: Measure references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_ad3634cdf768", "title": "Easton: Measure cites Job", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Job 11:9 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_fb26cad657a1", "title": "Easton: Measure cites Mark", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Mark 4:24 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_14038436ac23", "title": "Easton: Measure cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 4:22 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_c6600f694594", "title": "Easton: Acre", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is the translation of a word (tse’med), which properly means a yoke, and denotes a space of ground that may be ploughed by a yoke of oxen in a day. It is about an acre of our measure (Isa. 5:10; 1 Sam"}, {"id": "card_c_fc0bddf90a5f", "title": "Easton: Measure cites Luke", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Luke 16:7; Luke 13:21; Luke 16:6 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_d8ff7477cd4a", "title": "Easton: Aijeleth Shahar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hind of the dawn, a name found in the title of Ps. 22. It is probably the name of some song or tune to the measure of which the psalm was to be chanted. Some, however, understand by the name some inst"}, {"id": "card_n_da1c9fb9a8ea", "title": "Easton: Tale", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. tokhen, “a task,” as weighed and measured out = tally, i.e., the number told off; the full number (Ex. 5:18; see 1 Sam. 18:27; 1 Chr. 9:28). In Ezek. 45:11 rendered “measure.” (2.) Heb. hege"}, {"id": "card_n_e3af6a07f766", "title": "Easton: Drink", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The drinks of the Hebrews were water, wine, “strong drink,” and vinegar. Their drinking vessels were the cup, goblet or “basin,” the “cruse” or pitcher, and the saucer. To drink water by measure (Ezek"}, {"id": "card_n_aaeb5084db01", "title": "Easton: Jehoshaphat", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah-judged. (1.) One of David’s body-guard (1 Chr. 11:43). (2.) One of the priests who accompanied the removal of the ark to Jerusalem (1 Chr. 15:24). (3.) Son of Ahilud, “recorder” or annalist un"}, {"id": "card_n_2e964ada3cc3", "title": "Easton: War", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Israelites had to take possession of the Promised Land by conquest. They had to engage in a long and bloody war before the Canaanitish tribes were finally subdued. Except in the case of Jericho an"}]}