{"query": "Easton: Sheep-fold", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_98fd35846353", "title": "John 10", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.\n2. But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of th"}, {"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_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_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_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_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_cfadbf0d9df5", "title": "Easton: Hall", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. aule, Luke 22:55; R.V., “court”), the open court or quadrangle belonging to the high priest’s house. In Matt. 26:69 and Mark 14:66 this word is incorrectly rendered “palace” in the Authorized Ver"}, {"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_055da11d8282", "title": "Easton: Fold cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 10:1 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_4291f1095c8f", "title": "Easton: Napkin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. soudarion, John 11:44; 20:7; Lat. sudarium, a “sweat-cloth”), a cloth for wiping the sweat from the face. But the word is used of a wrapper to fold money in (Luke 19:20), and as an article of dre"}, {"id": "card_c_438c2f03b8cf", "title": "Easton: Fold references Aroer", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Aroer (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_63e6ef4038b9", "title": "Easton: Sheep references Exodus", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Exodus. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_2d5acfac2f70", "title": "Easton: Leaf", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of a tree. The olive-leaf mentioned Gen. 8:11. The barren fig-tree had nothing but leaves (Matt. 21:19; Mark 11:13). The oak-leaf is mentioned Isa. 1:30; 6:13. There are numerous allusions to leaves, "}, {"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_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_addea63914e2", "title": "Easton: Gerar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A region; lodging-place, a very ancient town and district in the south border of Palestine, which was ruled over by a king named Abimelech (Gen. 10:19; 20:1, 2). Abraham sojourned here, and perhaps Is"}]}