{"query": "Easton: Pieces", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_71d82ac3286f", "title": "Easton: Money", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of uncoined money the first notice we have is in the history of Abraham (Gen. 13:2; 20:16; 24:35). Next, this word is used in connection with the purchase of the cave of Machpelah (23:16), and again i"}, {"id": "card_n_6d7d74577f4e", "title": "Easton: Kesitah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gen. 33:19, R.V., marg., a Hebrew word, rendered, A.V., pl. “pieces of money,” marg., “lambs;” Josh. 24:32, “pieces of silver;” Job 42:11, “piece of money”). The kesitah was probably a piece of money"}, {"id": "card_n_a67b94794cd8", "title": "Easton: Pieces", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1) of silver. In Ps. 68:30 denotes “fragments,” and not properly money. In 1 Sam. 2:36 (Heb. agorah), properly a “small sum” as wages, weighed rather than coined. Josh. 24:32 (Heb. kesitah, q.v.), su"}, {"id": "card_n_96d9dee329be", "title": "Easton: Ephod", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Something girt, a sacred vestment worn originally by the high priest (Ex. 28:4), afterwards by the ordinary priest (1 Sam. 22:18), and characteristic of his office (1 Sam. 2:18, 28; 14:3). It was worn"}, {"id": "card_n_fa1569ce6abf", "title": "Easton: Joseph", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Remover or increaser. (1.) The elder of the two sons of Jacob by Rachel (Gen. 30:23, 24), who, on the occasion of his birth, said, “God hath taken away [Heb. ‘asaph] my reproach.” “The Lord shall add "}, {"id": "card_n_e28196bff4c5", "title": "Easton: Marriage-feasts", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(John 2:1-11) “lasted usually for a whole week; but the cost of such prolonged rejoicing is very small in the East. The guests sit round the great bowl or bowls on the floor, the meal usually consisti"}, {"id": "card_c_8b6a3e8f8e9f", "title": "Easton: Pieces references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_7b3355525205", "title": "Easton: Pieces cites Luke", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Luke 15:8 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_9afac5132bd2", "title": "Easton: Cymbals", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. tzeltzelim, from a root meaning to “tinkle”), musical instruments, consisting of two convex pieces of brass one held in each hand, which were clashed together to produce a loud clanging sound; c"}, {"id": "card_n_53c67a2042b6", "title": "Easton: Moth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ‘ash, from a root meaning “to fall away,” as moth-eaten garments fall to pieces (Job 4:19; 13:28; Isa. 50:9; 51:8; Hos. 5:12). Gr. ses, thus rendered in Matt. 6:19, 20; Luke 12:33. Allusion is th"}, {"id": "card_n_b30300d9d543", "title": "Easton: Covering of the eyes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Occurs only in Gen. 20:16. In the Revised Version the rendering is “it (i.e., Abimelech’s present of 1,000 pieces of silver to Abraham) is for thee a covering of the eyes.” This has been regarded as a"}, {"id": "card_n_6ba7dc280f35", "title": "Easton: Agag", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Flame, the usual title of the Amalekite kings, as “Pharaoh” was of the Egyptian. (1.) A king of the Amalekites referred to by Balaam (Num. 24:7). He lived at the time of the Exodus. (2.) Another king "}, {"id": "card_n_e5aea150facb", "title": "Easton: Zareth-shahar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The splendour of the dawn, a city “in the mount of the valley” (Josh. 13:19). It is identified with the ruins of Zara, near the mouth of the Wady Zerka Main, on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea, some"}, {"id": "card_n_96eb78e5a3e4", "title": "Easton: Cinnamon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. kinamon, the Cinnamomum zeylanicum of botanists, a tree of the Laurel family, which grows only in India on the Malabar coast, in Ceylon, and China. There is no trace of it in Egypt, and it was un"}, {"id": "card_n_4d065ee91c5e", "title": "Easton: Bag", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A pocket of a cone-like shape in which Naaman bound two pieces of silver for Gehazi (2 Kings 5:23). The same Hebrew word occurs elsewhere only in Isa. 3:22, where it is rendered “crisping-pins,” "}, {"id": "card_n_1433bfec7852", "title": "Easton: Lions", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The most powerful of all carnivorous animals. Although not now found in Palestine, they must have been in ancient times very numerous there. They had their lairs in the forests (Jer. 5:6; 12:8; Amos 3"}, {"id": "card_n_2471a8fd6de6", "title": "Easton: Furnace", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Chald. attun, a large furnace with a wide open mouth, at the top of which materials were cast in (Dan. 3:22, 23; comp. Jer. 29:22). This furnace would be in constant requisition, for the Babyloni"}, {"id": "card_n_3121e5a544cb", "title": "Easton: Persia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An ancient empire, extending from the Indus to Thrace, and from the Caspian Sea to the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. The Persians were originally a Medic tribe which settled in Persia, on the eastern "}, {"id": "card_n_a229e6923dc6", "title": "Easton: Brass", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Which is an alloy of copper and zinc, was not known till the thirteenth century. What is designated by this word in Scripture is properly copper (Deut. 8:9). It was used for fetters (Judg. 16:21; 2 Ki"}, {"id": "card_n_2b4ff4156320", "title": "Easton: James, Epistle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Author of, was James the Less, the Lord’s brother, one of the twelve apostles. He was one of the three pillars of the Church (Gal. 2:9). (2.) It was addressed to the Jews of the dispersion, “the "}]}