{"query": "Easton: Nose-jewels", "count": 15, "results": [{"id": "card_n_8b457fcea58c", "title": "Easton: Nose-jewels", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Only mentioned in Isa. 3:21, although refered to in Gen. 24:47, Prov. 11:22, Hos. 2:13. They were among the most valued of ancient female ornaments. They “were made of ivory or metal, and occasionally"}, {"id": "card_c_041b31dcc164", "title": "Easton: Nose-jewels references Rebekah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Rebekah (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_n_e530a1ee7b18", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §312: HOPE.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "HOPE. But did they take from him all that ever he had? Chr. No; the place where his jewels were they never ransacked, so those he kept still. But, as I was told, the good man was much afflicted for hi"}, {"id": "card_n_4ee60b249f49", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §316: HOPE.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "HOPE. But it is a wonder that his necessity did not put him upon selling or pawning some of his jewels, that he might have wherewith to relieve himself in his journey. CHR. Thou talkest like one upon "}, {"id": "card_n_93f5e2b894b5", "title": "Easton: Forehead", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The practice common among Oriental nations of colouring the forehead or impressing on it some distinctive mark as a sign of devotion to some deity is alluded to in Rev. 13:16, 17; 14:9; 17:5; 20:4. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_08a0278867fd", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §317: HOPE.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "HOPE. Why art thou so tart, my brother? Esau sold his birthright, and that for a mess of pottage, and that birthright was his greatest jewel; and if he, why might not Little-faith do so too? CHR. Esau"}, {"id": "card_n_a72b789a6307", "title": "Easton: Ring", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Used as an ornament to decorate the fingers, arms, wrists, and also the ears and the nose. Rings were used as a signet (Gen. 38:18). They were given as a token of investment with authority (Gen. 41:42"}, {"id": "card_n_98bde3308459", "title": "Easton: Earrings", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Rings properly for the ear (Gen. 35:4; Num. 31:50; Ezek. 16:12). In Gen. 24:47 the word means a nose-jewel, and is so rendered in the Revised Version. In Isa. 3:20 the Authorized Version has “ear-ring"}, {"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_13fa61aa39c6", "title": "Easton: Carbuncle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ex. 28:17; 39:10; Ezek. 28:13). Heb. barkath; LXX. smaragdos; Vulgate, smaragdus; Revised Version, marg., “emerald.” The Hebrew word is from a root meaning “to glitter,” “lighten,” “flash.” When held"}, {"id": "card_n_52bf2278f05b", "title": "Easton: Gift", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) An gratuity (Prov. 19:6) to secure favour (18:16; 21:14), a thank-offering (Num. 18:11), or a dowry (Gen. 34:12). (2.) An oblation or proppitatory gift (2Sa 8:2, 6; 1Ch 18:2, 6; 2Ch 26:8; Ps. 45:"}, {"id": "card_n_100ddef17eee", "title": "Easton: Thummim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Perfection (LXX., “truth;” Vulg., “veritas”), Ex. 28:30; Deut. 33:8; Judg. 1:1; 20:18; 1 Sam. 14:3, 18; 23:9; 2 Sam. 21:1. What the “Urim and Thummim” were cannot be determined with any certainty. All"}, {"id": "card_n_9fab9883e012", "title": "Martyrdom of Polycarp XVIII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The centurion then, seeing the strife excited by the Jews, placed the body in the midst of the fire, and consumed it. Accordingly, we afterwards took up his bones, as being more precious than the most"}, {"id": "card_n_2cdfeaf2c643", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §314: HOPE.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "HOPE. But it must needs be a comfort to him, that they got not his jewels from him. CHR. It might have been great comfort to him, had he used it as he should; but they that told me the story said, tha"}, {"id": "card_n_c4f3d5078791", "title": "Ignatius to the Ephesians XI", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The last times are come upon us. Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation. For let us either stand in awe of the wrath to come"}]}