{"query": "Easton: Rose", "count": 17, "results": [{"id": "card_n_325d22bd3285", "title": "Easton: Rose", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Many varieties of the rose proper are indigenous to Syria. The famed rose of Damascus is white, but there are also red and yellow roses. In Cant. 2:1 and Isa. 35:1 the Hebrew word habatstseleth (found"}, {"id": "card_n_ad13fee569a5", "title": "Easton: Tyropoeon Valley", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(i.e., “Valley of the Cheesemongers”), the name given by Josephus the historian to the valley or rugged ravine which in ancient times separated Mount Moriah from Mount Zion. This valley, now filled up"}, {"id": "card_n_9de284733d92", "title": "Easton: Rhodes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A rose, an island to the south of the western extremity of Asia Minor, between Coos and Patara, about 46 miles long and 18 miles broad. Here the apostle probably landed on his way from Greece to Syria"}, {"id": "card_n_4d926e871ddc", "title": "Easton: Adam, the city of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is referred to in Josh. 3:16. It stood “beside Zarethan,” on the west bank of Jordan (1 Kings 4:12). At this city the flow of the water was arrested and rose up “upon an heap” at the time of the Israe"}, {"id": "card_n_98a873f2fcb3", "title": "Easton: Sharon, Saron", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A plain, a level tract extending from the Mediterranean to the hill country to the west of Jerusalem, about 30 miles long and from 8 to 15 miles broad, celebrated for its beauty and fertility (1 Chr. "}, {"id": "card_c_4eed094d19cf", "title": "Easton: Rose references Carmel", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Carmel (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_c_2a7f9c2d24a2", "title": "Easton: Rose references Damascus", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Damascus (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_c_06379af69c7b", "title": "Easton: Rose references Palestine", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Palestine (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_1265d9c7f705", "title": "Easton: Zaretan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When the Hebrews crossed the Jordan, as soon as the feet of the priests were dipped in the water, the flow of the stream was arrested. The point of arrest was the “city of Adam beside Zaretan,” probab"}, {"id": "card_n_85b51b9875ad", "title": "Easton: Shallum", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Retribution. (1.) The son of Jabesh, otherwise unknown. He “conspired against Zachariah, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead” (2 Kings 15:10). He reigned only “a mo"}, {"id": "card_n_7199674e79dd", "title": "Easton: Media", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. Madai, which is rendered in the Authorized Version (1) “Madai,” Gen. 10:2; (2) “Medes,” 2 Kings 17:6; 18:11; (3) “Media,” Esther 1:3; 10:2; Isa. 21:2; Dan. 8:20; (4) “Mede,” only in Dan. 11:1. We"}, {"id": "card_n_48cb5bb794a6", "title": "Easton: Gedaliah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Made great by Jehovah. (1.) the son of Jeduthum (1 Chr. 25:3, 9). (2.) The grandfather of the prophet Zephaniah, and the father of Cushi (Zeph. 1:1). (3.) One of the Jewish nobles who conspired agains"}, {"id": "card_n_9433c15082d9", "title": "Easton: River", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. ‘aphik, properly the channel or ravine that holds water (2 Sam. 22:16), translated “brook,” “river,” “stream,” but not necessarily a perennial stream (Ezek. 6:3; 31:12; 32:6; 34:13). (2.) He"}, {"id": "card_n_ccf0ca858c9d", "title": "Easton: Proselyte", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is used in the LXX. for “stranger” (1 Chr. 22:2), i.e., a comer to Palestine; a sojourner in the land (Ex. 12:48; 20:10; 22:21), and in the New Testament for a convert to Judaism. There were such conv"}, {"id": "card_n_f85d77b013ad", "title": "Easton: Zidon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A fishery, a town on the Mediterranean coast, about 25 miles north of Tyre. It received its name from the “first-born” of Canaan, the grandson of Noah (Gen. 10:15, 19). It was the first home of the Ph"}, {"id": "card_n_2db9fce50af9", "title": "Easton: Amos", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Borne; a burden, one of the twelve minor prophets. He was a native of Tekota, the modern Tekua, a town about 12 miles south-east of Bethlehem. He was a man of humble birth, neither a “prophet nor a pr"}, {"id": "card_n_a1bede61ed25", "title": "Easton: Willows", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. ‘arabim (Lev. 23:40; Job 40:22; Isa. 15:7; 44:3, 4; Ps. 137:1, 2). This was supposed to be the weeping willow, called by Linnaeus Salix Babylonica, from the reference in Ps. 137. This tree i"}]}