{"query": "Easton: Ring", "count": 9, "results": [{"id": "card_n_ca1d92f2920c", "title": "Easton: Seal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Commonly a ring engraved with some device (Gen. 38:18, 25). Jezebel “wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal” (1 Kings 21:8). Seals are frequently mentioned in Jewish history (Deut"}, {"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_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_7438cc4d030e", "title": "Easton: Signet", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A seal used to attest documents (Dan. 6:8-10, 12). In 6:17, this word properly denotes a ring. The impression of a signet ring on fine clay has recently been discovered among the ruins at Nineveh. It "}, {"id": "card_c_a5f27efddca3", "title": "Easton: Ring cites Esther", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Esther 3:8 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_2b4b4c4f018e", "title": "Easton: Ring cites James", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites James 2:2 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_56762bf0e395", "title": "Easton: Ring cites Luke", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Luke 15:22 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"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_3ecabd10983c", "title": "Easton: Hook", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. hah, a “ring” inserted in the nostrils of animals to which a cord was fastened for the purpose of restraining them (2 Kings 19:28; Isa. 37:28, 29; Ezek. 29:4; 38:4). “The Orientals make use "}]}