{"query": "Easton: River of Egypt", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_60745de1050f", "title": "Easton: Euphrates", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hebrew, Perath; Assyrian, Purat; Persian cuneiform, Ufratush, whence Greek Euphrates, meaning “sweet water.” The Assyrian name means “the stream,” or “the great stream.” It is generally called in the "}, {"id": "card_n_1dd30499be9a", "title": "Easton: River of Egypt", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. nahar mitsraim, denotes in Gen. 15:18 the Nile, or its eastern branch (2 Chr. 9:26). (2.) In Num. 34:5 (R.V., “brook of Egypt”) the Hebrew word is nahal, denoting a stream flowing rapidly in"}, {"id": "card_n_9515ae317a6c", "title": "Easton: Stream of Egypt", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 27:12), the Wady el-‘Arish, called also “the river of Egypt,” R.V., “brook of Egypt” (Num. 34:5; Josh. 15:4; 2 Kings 24:7). It is the natural boundary of Egypt. Occasionally in winter, when heav"}, {"id": "card_n_1987410ceae9", "title": "Easton: Plague", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A “stroke” of affliction, or disease. Sent as a divine chastisement (Num. 11:33; 14:37; 16:46-49; 2 Sam. 24:21). Painful afflictions or diseases, (Lev. 13:3, 5, 30; 1 Kings 8:37), or severe calamity ("}, {"id": "card_c_e543474d8a1a", "title": "Easton: River of Egypt references Egypt", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Egypt (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_n_279fde26e702", "title": "Easton: Sihor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(correctly Shi’hor) black; dark the name given to the river Nile in Isa. 23:3; Jer. 2:18. In Josh. 13:3 it is probably “the river of Egypt”, i.e., the Wady el-Arish (1 Chr. 13:5), which flows “before "}, {"id": "card_n_604c56e81149", "title": "Easton: Palestine", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Originally denoted only the sea-coast of the land of Canaan inhabited by the Philistines (Ex. 15:14; Isa. 14:29, 31; Joel 3:4), and in this sense exclusively the Hebrew name Pelesheth (rendered “Phili"}, {"id": "card_n_df68c9d261cd", "title": "Easton: Idolatry", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Image-worship or divine honour paid to any created object. Paul describes the origin of idolatry in Rom. 1:21-25: men forsook God, and sank into ignorance and moral corruption (1:28). The forms of ido"}, {"id": "card_n_211a08342363", "title": "Easton: Cush", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Black. (1.) A son, probably the eldest, of Ham, and the father of Nimrod (Gen. 10:8; 1 Chr. 1:10). From him the land of Cush seems to have derived its name. The question of the precise locality of the"}, {"id": "card_n_49c58db7d30d", "title": "Easton: Rahab", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Insolence; pride, a poetical name applied to Egypt in Ps. 87:4; 89:10; Isa. 51:9, as “the proud one.” Rahab, (Heb. Rahab; i.e., “broad,” “large”). When the Hebrews were encamped at Shittim, in the “Ar"}, {"id": "card_n_7932cdd752b2", "title": "Easton: Carchemish", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fortress of Chemosh, a city on the west bank of the Euphrates (Jer. 46:2; 2 Chr. 35:20), not, as was once supposed, the Circesium at the confluence of the Chebar and the Euphrates, but a city consider"}, {"id": "card_n_604fe8364075", "title": "Easton: Egypt", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The land of the Nile and the pyramids, the oldest kingdom of which we have any record, holds a place of great significance in Scripture. The Egyptians belonged to the white race, and their original ho"}, {"id": "card_n_fe28ba888e84", "title": "Easton: Kishon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Winding, a winter torrent of Central Palestine, which rises about the roots of Tabor and Gilboa, and passing in a northerly direction through the plains of Esdraelon and Acre, falls into the Mediterra"}, {"id": "card_n_4f4a1850fb90", "title": "Easton: Exodus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The great deliverance wrought for the children of Isreal when they were brought out of the land of Egypt with “a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm” (Ex 12:51; Deut. 26:8; Ps 114; 136), about B."}, {"id": "card_n_0079ce54231f", "title": "Easton: Nile", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Dark; blue, not found in Scripture, but frequently referred to in the Old Testament under the name of Sihor, i.e., “the black stream” (Isa. 23:3; Jer. 2:18) or simply “the river” (Gen. 41:1; Ex. 1:22,"}, {"id": "card_n_2629594e7a98", "title": "Easton: Chebar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Length, a river in the “land of the Chaldeans” (Ezek. 1:3), on the banks of which were located some of the Jews of the Captivity (Ezek. 1:1; 3:15, 23; 10:15, 20, 22). It has been supposed to be identi"}, {"id": "card_n_94e913d8ad66", "title": "Easton: Exodus, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Exodus is the name given in the LXX. to the second book of the Pentateuch (q.v.). It means “departure” or “outgoing.” This name was adopted in the Latin translation, and thence passed into other langu"}, {"id": "card_n_04f8c34dd746", "title": "Easton: Jabbok", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A pouring out, or a wrestling, one of the streams on the east of Jordan, into which it falls about midway between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea, or about 45 miles below the Sea of Galilee. It ri"}, {"id": "card_n_0667b6bec0dd", "title": "Easton: Jeroboam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Increase of the people. (1.) The son of Nebat (1 Kings 11:26-39), “an Ephrathite,” the first king of the ten tribes, over whom he reigned twenty-two years (B.C. 976-945). He was the son of a widow of "}, {"id": "card_n_524670df6a3e", "title": "Easton: Eliezer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God his help. (1.) “Of Damascus,” the “steward” (R.V., “possessor”) of Abraham’s house (Gen. 15:2, 3). It was probably he who headed the embassy sent by Abraham to the old home of his family in Padan-"}]}