{"query": "Easton: Parched ground", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_fd1d7f3dc6c6", "title": "Easton: Parched ground", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 35:7), Heb. sharab, a “mirage”, a phenomenon caused by the refraction of the rays of the sun on the glowing sands of the desert, causing them suddenly to assume the appearance of a beautiful lak"}, {"id": "card_n_c6f329082959", "title": "Easton: Pool", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A pond, or reservoir, for holding water (Heb. berekhah; modern Arabic, birket), an artificial cistern or tank. Mention is made of the pool of Gibeon (2 Sam. 2:13); the pool of Hebron (4:12); the upper"}, {"id": "card_n_7031ddc0463c", "title": "Easton: Fallow-ground", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The expression, “Break up your fallow ground” (Hos. 10:12; Jer. 4:3) means, “Do not sow your seed among thorns”, i.e., break off all your evil habits; clear your hearts of weeds, in order that they ma"}, {"id": "card_n_71983920fe55", "title": "Easton: Earth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) In the sense of soil or ground, the translation of the word adamah’. In Gen. 9:20 “husbandman” is literally “man of the ground or earth.” Altars were to be built of earth (Ex. 20:24). Naaman aske"}, {"id": "card_n_6ae644f46786", "title": "Easton: Bread", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Among the Jews was generally made of wheat (Ex. 29:2; Judg. 6:19), though also sometimes of other grains (Gen. 14:18; Judg. 7:13). Parched grain was sometimes used for food without any other preparati"}, {"id": "card_n_48d59fad564c", "title": "Easton: Clay", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word is used of sediment found in pits or in streets (Isa. 57:20; Jer. 38:60), of dust mixed with spittle (John 9:6), and of potter’s clay (Isa. 41:25; Nah. 3:14; Jer. 18:1-6; Rom. 9:21). Clay wa"}, {"id": "card_n_9041d3984d8c", "title": "Easton: Gin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A trap. (1.) Ps. 140:5, 141:9, Amos 3:5, the Hebrew word used, mokesh, means a noose or “snare,” as it is elsewhere rendered (Ps. 18:5; Prov. 13:14, etc.). (2.) Job 18:9, Isa. 8:14, Heb. pah, a plate "}, {"id": "card_n_5dd2587148da", "title": "Psalm 143 — Psalm 143", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<A Psalm by David.>> Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me. Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living i"}, {"id": "card_n_310f96717350", "title": "Easton: Plain", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. ‘abel (Judg. 11:33), a “grassy plain” or “meadow.” Instead of “plains of the vineyards,” as in the Authorized Version, the Revised Version has “Abel-cheramim” (q.v.), comp. Judg. 11:22; 2 Ch"}, {"id": "card_n_5e414d7bb99c", "title": "Easton: Cord", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Frequently used in its proper sense, for fastening a tent (Ex. 35:18; 39:40), yoking animals to a cart (Isa. 5:18), binding prisoners (Judg. 15:13; Ps. 2:3; 129:4), and measuring ground (2 Sam. 8;2; P"}, {"id": "card_n_bc9cfddf70cc", "title": "Easton: Naboth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fruits, “the Jezreelite,” was the owner of a portion of ground on the eastern slope of the hill of Jezreel (2 Kings 9:25, 26). This small “plat of ground” seems to have been all he possessed. It was a"}, {"id": "card_n_700fed0286e8", "title": "Easton: Manna", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. man-hu, “What is that?” the name given by the Israelites to the food miraculously supplied to them during their wanderings in the wilderness (Ex. 16:15-35). The name is commonly taken as derived "}, {"id": "card_n_cbfd1b6bddc9", "title": "Easton: Midianite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An Arabian tribe descended from Midian. They inhabited principally the desert north of the peninsula of Arabia. The peninsula of Sinai was the pasture-ground for their flocks. They were virtually the "}, {"id": "card_n_0e9a1a53ebf7", "title": "Easton: Cain", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A possession; a spear. (1.) The first-born son of Adam and Eve (Gen. 4). He became a tiller of the ground, as his brother Abel followed the pursuits of pastoral life. He was “a sullen, self-willed, ha"}, {"id": "card_n_58c5acfcb75e", "title": "Easton: Gethsemane", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Oil-press, the name of an olive-yard at the foot of the Mount of Olives, to which Jesus was wont to retire (Luke 22:39) with his disciples, and which is specially memorable as being the scene of his a"}, {"id": "card_n_29770913899b", "title": "Easton: Jacob’s Well", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(John 4:5, 6). This is one of the few sites in Palestine about which there is no dispute. It was dug by Jacob, and hence its name, in the “parcel of ground” which he purchased from the sons of Hamor ("}, {"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_fde163637dea", "title": "Easton: Haran", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. haran; i.e., “mountaineer.” The eldest son of Terah, brother of Abraham and Nahor, and father of Lot, Milcah, and Iscah. He died before his father (Gen. 11:27), in Ur of the Chaldees. (2.) H"}, {"id": "card_n_81e6e1bee08e", "title": "Easton: Husbandman", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One whose business it is to cultivate the ground. It was one of the first occupations, and was esteemed most honourable (Gen. 9:20; 26:12, 14; 37:7, etc.). All the Hebrews, except those engaged in rel"}, {"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"}]}