{"query": "Easton: Sheep", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_c509e7979431", "title": "Easton: Sheep", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Are of different varieties. Probably the flocks of Abraham and Isaac were of the wild species found still in the mountain regions of Persia and Kurdistan. After the Exodus, and as a result of intercou"}, {"id": "card_n_3430c86a9ce4", "title": "Easton: Sheep-market", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Occurs only in John 5:2 (marg., also R.V., “sheep-gate”). The word so rendered is an adjective, and it is uncertain whether the noun to be supplied should be “gate” or, following the Vulgate Version, "}, {"id": "card_n_af7d3b9d5ebf", "title": "Easton: Sheep-fold", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A strong fenced enclosure for the protection of the sheep gathered within it (Num. 32:24; 1 Chr. 17:7; Ps. 50:9; 78:70). In John 10:16 the Authorized Version renders by “fold” two distinct Greek words"}, {"id": "card_n_4c83f4c09b41", "title": "Easton: Shepherd", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A word naturally of frequent occurence in Scripture. Sometimes the word “pastor” is used instead (Jer. 2:8; 3:15; 10:21; 12:10; 17:16). This word is used figuratively to represent the relation of rule"}, {"id": "card_n_fa1a942e187a", "title": "Easton: Bethesda", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "House of mercy, a reservoir (Gr. kolumbethra, “a swimming bath”) with five porches, close to the sheep-gate or market (Neh. 3:1; John 5:2). Eusebius the historian (A.D. 330) calls it “the sheep-pool.”"}, {"id": "card_n_3712fb9d672a", "title": "Easton: Nabal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Foolish, a descendant of Caleb who dwelt at Maon (1 Sam. 25), the modern Main, 7 miles south-east of Hebron. He was “very great, and he had 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats...but the man was churlish and e"}, {"id": "card_c_63e6ef4038b9", "title": "Easton: Sheep references Exodus", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Exodus. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_44b6a1a8d38b", "title": "Easton: Sheep-fold references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_e64cfdf46f21", "title": "Easton: Sheep cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 10:1 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_2982e5a0712f", "title": "Easton: Sheep-fold cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 10:16 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_645c03caa2ea", "title": "Easton: Sheep-fold cites Luke", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Luke 2:8 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_8edc61ce01e4", "title": "Easton: Sheep-market cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 5:2 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_3694b5f0b9b3", "title": "Easton: Baal-hazor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Having a courtyard, or Baal’s village, the place on the borders of Ephraim and Benjamin where Absalom held the feast of sheep-shearing when Amnon was assassinated (2 Sam. 13:23). Probably it is the sa"}, {"id": "card_n_68af30a18bda", "title": "Easton: Shearing-house", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(2 Kings 10:12, 14; marg., “house of shepherds binding sheep.” R.V., “the shearing-house of the shepherds;” marg., “house of gathering”), some place between Samaria and Jezreel, where Jehu slew “two a"}, {"id": "card_n_0042d98a8e3f", "title": "Easton: Fleece", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The wool of a sheep, whether shorn off or still attached to the skin (Deut. 18:4; Job 31:20). The miracle of Gideon’s fleece (Judg. 6:37-40) consisted in the dew having fallen at one time on the fleec"}, {"id": "card_n_8b7bcab57e12", "title": "Easton: Fold", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An enclosure for flocks to rest together (Isa. 13:20). Sheep-folds are mentioned Num. 32:16, 24, 36; 2 Sam. 7:8; Zeph. 2:6; John 10:1, etc. It was prophesied of the cities of Ammon (Ezek. 25:5), Aroer"}, {"id": "card_n_c40a1d1a4743", "title": "Easton: Fatling", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A fatted animal for slaughter (2 Sam. 6:13; Isa. 11:6; Ezek. 39:18. Comp. Matt. 22:4, where the word used in the original, sitistos, means literally “corn-fed;” i.e., installed, fat). (2.) Ps. 66"}, {"id": "card_n_594913afeafd", "title": "Easton: Cow", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A cow and her calf were not to be killed on the same day (Lev. 22:28; Ex. 23:19; Deut. 22:6, 7). The reason for this enactment is not given. A state of great poverty is described in the words of Isa. "}, {"id": "card_c_9c32e00a5b87", "title": "Easton: Sheep references Abraham", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Abraham (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_c_15681a3f45cd", "title": "Easton: Sheep references Isaac", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Isaac (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}]}