{"query": "Easton: Serpent, Fiery", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_a59bf4d41fad", "title": "Easton: Serpent, Fiery", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(LXX. “deadly,” Vulg. “burning”), Num. 21:6, probably the naja haje of Egypt; some swift-springing, deadly snake (Isa. 14:29). After setting out from their encampment at Ezion-gaber, the Israelites en"}, {"id": "card_n_361dc3c83c89", "title": "Easton: Serpent", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. nahash; Gr. ophis), frequently noticed in Scripture. More than forty species are found in Syria and Arabia. The poisonous character of the serpent is alluded to in Jacob’s blessing on Dan (Gen. "}, {"id": "card_c_92db2ae4056e", "title": "Easton: Serpent, Fiery cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 18:4 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_3d66e3a7ddae", "title": "Easton: Serpent, Fiery cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 3:14 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_49ff1ab364b5", "title": "Easton: Serpent, Fiery references Edom", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Edom (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_f41989efe55e", "title": "Easton: Serpent, Fiery 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_c_13ba546e66e5", "title": "Easton: Serpent, Fiery references Hezekiah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Hezekiah (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_747cdcdb1e9f", "title": "Easton: Basilisk", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(in R.V., Isa. 11:8; 14:29; 59:5; Jer. 8:17), the “king serpent,” as the name imports; a fabulous serpent said to be three spans long, with a spot on its head like a crown. Probably the yellow snake i"}, {"id": "card_n_eab476fd1161", "title": "Easton: Seraphim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned in Isa. 6:2, 3, 6, 7. This word means fiery ones, in allusion, as is supposed, to their burning love. They are represented as “standing” above the King as he sat upon his throne, ready at on"}, {"id": "card_n_c82ab4e5e643", "title": "Easton: Shadrach", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Aku’s command, the Chaldean name given to Hananiah, one of the Hebrew youths whom Nebuchadnezzar carried captive to Babylon (Dan. 1:6, 7; 3:12-30). He and his two companions refused to bow down before"}, {"id": "card_n_9501c058ead6", "title": "Easton: Nehushtan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of copper; a brazen thing a name of contempt given to the serpent Moses had made in the wilderness (Num. 21:8), and which Hezekiah destroyed because the children of Israel began to regard it as an ido"}, {"id": "card_n_a0869faf2a81", "title": "Easton: Cockatrice", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The mediaeval name (a corruption of “crocodile”) of a fabulous serpent supposed to be produced from a cock’s egg. It is generally supposed to denote the cerastes, or “horned viper,” a very poisonous s"}, {"id": "card_n_954ec11a74e6", "title": "Easton: Adder", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ps. 140:3; Rom. 3:13, “asp”) is the rendering of, (1.) Akshub (“coiling” or “lying in wait”), properly an asp or viper, found only in this passage. (2.) Pethen (“twisting”), a viper or venomous serpe"}, {"id": "card_n_d9f557168b6f", "title": "Easton: Leviathan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A transliterated Hebrew word (livyathan), meaning “twisted,” “coiled.” In Job 3:8, Revised Version, and marg. of Authorized Version, it denotes the dragon which, according to Eastern tradition, is an "}, {"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_a8806f1e8230", "title": "Easton: Lapidoth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Torches. Deborah is called “the wife of Lapidoth” (Judg. 4:4). Some have rendered the expression “a woman of a fiery spirit,” under the supposition that Lapidoth is not a proper name, a woman of a tor"}, {"id": "card_n_499b46b2e38b", "title": "Easton: Dart", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An instrument of war; a light spear. “Fiery darts” (Eph. 6:16) are so called in allusion to the habit of discharging darts from the bow while they are on fire or armed with some combustible material. "}, {"id": "card_c_2a43063a4161", "title": "Easton: Serpent cites Luke", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Luke 10:19 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_a56b0ca3e585", "title": "Easton: Serpent cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 8:44 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_fec13c01e652", "title": "Easton: Serpent cites James", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites James 3:7 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}]}