{"query": "Easton: Sea of glass", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_530bdf14a108", "title": "Easton: Sea of glass", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A figurative expression used in Rev. 4:6 and 15:2. According to the interpretation of some, “this calm, glass-like sea, which is never in storm, but only interfused with flame, represents the counsels"}, {"id": "card_n_fde8e823f7f7", "title": "Easton: Glass", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was known to the Egyptians at a very early period of their national history, at least B.C. 1500. Various articles both useful and ornamental were made of it, as bottles, vases, etc. A glass bottle wit"}, {"id": "card_n_f482062a5171", "title": "Easton: Dead Sea", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given by Greek writers of the second century to that inland sea called in Scripture the “salt sea” (Gen. 14:3; Num. 34:12), the “sea of the plain” (Deut. 3:17), the “east sea” (Ezek. 47:18; J"}, {"id": "card_n_2a235473b1eb", "title": "Easton: Red Sea", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The sea so called extends along the west coast of Arabia for about 1,400 miles, and separates Asia from Africa. It is connected with the Indian Ocean, of which it is an arm, by the Strait of Bab-el-Ma"}, {"id": "card_n_d86de59288dd", "title": "Easton: Sea, The", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. yam), signifies (1) “the gathering together of the waters,” the ocean (Gen. 1:10); (2) a river, as the Nile (Isa. 19:5), the Euphrates (Isa. 21:1; Jer. 51:36); (3) the Red Sea (Ex. 14:16, 27; 15"}, {"id": "card_n_08158d7be922", "title": "Easton: Red Sea, Passage of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The account of the march of the Israelites through the Red Sea is given in Ex. 14:22-31. There has been great diversity of opinion as to the precise place where this occurred. The difficulty of arrivi"}, {"id": "card_n_78ef34b2e7cf", "title": "Easton: Whale", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hebrew word tan (plural, tannin) is so rendered in Job 7:12 (A.V.; but R.V., “sea-monster”). It is rendered by “dragons” in Deut. 32:33; Ps. 91:13; Jer. 51:34; Ps. 74:13 (marg., “whales;” and marg"}, {"id": "card_n_1084bfdf5d6b", "title": "Easton: Galilee, Sea of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Matt. 4:18; 15:29), is mentioned in the Bible under three other names. (1.) In the Old Testament it is called the “sea of Chinnereth” (Num. 34:11; Josh. 12:3; 13:27), as is supposed from its harp-lik"}, {"id": "card_n_8dfa0797559c", "title": "Easton: Siddim, Vale of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Valley of the broad plains, “which is the salt sea” (Gen. 14:3, 8, 10), between Engedi and the cities of the plain, at the south end of the Dead Sea. It was “full of slime-pits” (R.V., “bitumen pits”)"}, {"id": "card_n_597705b0c9c4", "title": "Easton: Sodom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Burning; the walled, a city in the vale of Siddim (Gen. 13:10; 14:1-16). The wickedness of its inhabitants brought down upon it fire from heaven, by which it was destroyed (18:16-33; 19:1-29; Deut. 23"}, {"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_7dbf0c0d0bed", "title": "Easton: Tiberias, Sea of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called also the Sea of Galilee (q.v.) and of Gennesaret. In the Old Testament it is called the Sea of Chinnereth or Chinneroth. John (21:1) is the only evangelist who so designates this lake. His doin"}, {"id": "card_c_561b32f8c71d", "title": "Easton: Red Sea, Passage of references Red Sea", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Red Sea (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_422813a1fbea", "title": "Easton: Moab", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The seed of the father, or, according to others, the desirable land, the eldest son of Lot (Gen. 19:37), of incestuous birth. (2.) Used to denote the people of Moab (Num. 22:3-14; Judg. 3:30; 2 Sam. 8"}, {"id": "card_n_ab437ef6a525", "title": "Easton: John the Baptist", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The “forerunner of our Lord.” We have but fragmentary and imperfect accounts of him in the Gospels. He was of priestly descent. His father, Zacharias, was a priest of the course of Abia (1 Chr. 24:10)"}, {"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_598e4827429b", "title": "Easton: Wilderness", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. midhbar, denoting not a barren desert but a district or region suitable for pasturing sheep and cattle (Ps. 65:12; Isa. 42:11; Jer. 23:10; Joel 1:19; 2:22); an uncultivated place. This word "}, {"id": "card_c_ecec41639fe6", "title": "Easton: Sea, The references Dead Sea", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Dead Sea (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_6f64b2e2ab29", "title": "Easton: Sea, The references Red Sea", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Red Sea (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_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"}]}