{"query": "Easton: Rudder bands", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_8ba38c375fa6", "title": "Easton: Rudder bands", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ancient ships had two great broad-bladed oars for rudders. These, when not in use, were lifted out of the water and bound or tied up. When required for use, these bands were unloosed and the rudders a"}, {"id": "card_c_90ede7628fed", "title": "Easton: Rudder bands cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 27:40 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_be912262d5f1", "title": "Easton: Bands", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1) of love (Hos. 11:4); (2) of Christ (Ps. 2:3); (3) uniting together Christ’s body the church (Col. 2:19; 3:14; Eph. 4:3); (4) the emblem of the captivity of Israel (Ezek. 34:27; Isa. 28:22; 52:2); "}, {"id": "card_c_6532d062726f", "title": "Easton: Bands cites Job", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Job 21:7 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_6c3d7d7fb08d", "title": "Easton: Bands cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 21:31 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_bbd389bbf006", "title": "Easton: Rechab", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Horseman, or chariot. (1.) One of Ishbosheth’s “captains of bands” or leaders of predatory troops (2 Sam. 4:2). (2.) The father of Jehonadab, who was the father of the Rechabites (2 Kings 10:15, 23; J"}, {"id": "card_c_7c1a0cf0b494", "title": "Easton: Bands cites Luke", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Luke 8:29 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_6459ba364068", "title": "Easton: Palmer-worm", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. gazam). The English word may denote either a caterpillar (as rendered by the LXX.), which wanders like a palmer or pilgrim, or which travels like pilgrims in bands (Joel 1:4; 2:25), the wingless"}, {"id": "card_n_7689f53adb2d", "title": "Easton: Delaiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Freed by Jehovah. (1.) The head of the twenty-third division of the priestly order (1 Chr. 24:18). (2.) A son of Shemaiah, and one of the courtiers to whom Jeremiah’s first roll of prophecy was read ("}, {"id": "card_n_6b7d3781cf66", "title": "Easton: Neck", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Used sometimes figuratively. To “lay down the neck” (Rom. 16:4) is to hazard one’s life. Threatenings of coming judgments are represented by the prophets by their laying bands upon the people’s necks "}, {"id": "card_c_489469ed8d37", "title": "Easton: Bands references Judah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Judah (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_n_ac7a3751afea", "title": "Easton: Apron", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Found in the Authorized Version in Gen. 3:7, of the bands of fig-leaves made by our first parents. In Acts 19:12, it denotes the belt or half-girdle worn by artisans and servants round the waist for t"}, {"id": "card_n_4b8a643f9f8f", "title": "Easton: Agate", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. shebo), a precious stone in the breast-plate of the high priest (Ex. 28:19; 39:12), the second in the third row. This may be the agate properly so called, a semi-transparent crystallized quartz,"}, {"id": "card_n_e64d86f2233c", "title": "Easton: Flax", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. pishtah, i.e., “peeled”, in allusion to the fact that the stalks of flax when dried were first split or peeled before being steeped in water for the purpose of destroying the pulp). This plant w"}, {"id": "card_n_1006cff8ab6d", "title": "Easton: Ehud", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Union. (1.) A descendant of Benjamin (1 Chr. 7:10), his great-grandson. (2.) The son of Gera, of the tribe of Benjamin (Judg. 3:15). After the death of Othniel the people again fell into idolatry, and"}, {"id": "card_n_8b9cacdbe1fa", "title": "Easton: Music", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jubal was the inventor of musical instruments (Gen. 4:21). The Hebrews were much given to the cultivation of music. Their whole history and literature afford abundant evidence of this. After the Delug"}, {"id": "card_n_4c3273cdf559", "title": "Easton: Dispersion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. diaspora, “scattered,” James 1:1; 1 Pet. 1:1) of the Jews. At various times, and from the operation of divers causes, the Jews were separated and scattered into foreign countries “to the outmost "}, {"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_a930c67f4b13", "title": "Easton: Succoth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Booths. (1.) The first encampment of the Israelites after leaving Ramesses (Ex. 12:37); the civil name of Pithom (q.v.). (2.) A city on the east of Jordan, identified with Tell Dar’ala, a high mound, "}, {"id": "card_n_ca7c5314c056", "title": "Easton: Siloam, Tower of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned only Luke 13:4. The place here spoken of is the village now called Silwan, or Kefr Silwan, on the east of the valley of Kidron, and to the north-east of the pool. It stands on the west slope"}]}