{"query": "Easton: Shinar, The Land of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_89c3ae8ae0bf", "title": "Easton: Shinar, The Land of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "LXX. and Vulgate “Senaar;” in the inscriptions, “Shumir;” probably identical with Babylonia or Southern Mesopotamia, extending almost to the Persian Gulf. Here the tower of Babel was built (Gen. 11:1-"}, {"id": "card_n_1d4a3d2b0206", "title": "Easton: Chedorlaomer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(= Khudur-Lagamar of the inscriptions), king of Elam. Many centuries before the age of Abraham, Canaan and even the Sinaitic peninsula had been conquered by Babylonian kings, and in the time of Abraha"}, {"id": "card_n_604c56e81149", "title": "Easton: Palestine", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Originally denoted only the sea-coast of the land of Canaan inhabited by the Philistines (Ex. 15:14; Isa. 14:29, 31; Joel 3:4), and in this sense exclusively the Hebrew name Pelesheth (rendered “Phili"}, {"id": "card_n_bd877f031a70", "title": "Easton: Babel, tower of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to the tower which the primitive fathers of our race built in the land of Shinar after the Deluge (Gen. 11:1-9). Their object in building this tower was probably that it might be seen a"}, {"id": "card_n_55817537d555", "title": "Easton: Accad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The high land or mountains, a city in the land of Shinar. It has been identified with the mounds of Akker Kuf, some 50 miles to the north of Babylon; but this is doubtful. It was one of the cities of "}, {"id": "card_n_321b6f6055ba", "title": "Easton: Babylon, kingdom of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called “the land of the Chaldeans” (Jer. 24:5; Ezek, 12:13), was an extensive province in Central Asia along the valley of the Tigris from the Persian Gulf northward for some 300 miles. It was famed f"}, {"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_d02fc584c4c4", "title": "Easton: Eden", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Delight. (1.) The garden in which our first parents dewlt (Gen. 2:8-17). No geographical question has been so much discussed as that bearing on its site. It has been placed in Armenia, in the region w"}, {"id": "card_n_c42ad4111361", "title": "Easton: Ephraim, The tribe of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Took precedence over that of Manasseh by virtue of Jacob’s blessing (Gen. 41:52; 48:1). The descendants of Joseph formed two of the tribes of Israel, whereas each of the other sons of Jacob was the fo"}, {"id": "card_n_4f4a1850fb90", "title": "Easton: Exodus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The great deliverance wrought for the children of Isreal when they were brought out of the land of Egypt with “a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm” (Ex 12:51; Deut. 26:8; Ps 114; 136), about B."}, {"id": "card_n_b9c158f9776a", "title": "Easton: Nimrod", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Firm, a descendant of Cush, the son of Ham. He was the first who claimed to be a “mighty one in the earth.” Babel was the beginning of his kingdom, which he gradually enlarged (Gen. 10:8-10). The “lan"}, {"id": "card_n_d86e1363382f", "title": "Easton: Corner", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The angle of a house (Job 1:19) or a street (Prov. 7:8). “Corners” in Neh. 9:22 denotes the various districts of the promised land allotted to the Israelites. In Num. 24:17, the “corners of Moab” deno"}, {"id": "card_n_734bcd21be45", "title": "Easton: Joshua, The Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Contains a history of the Israelites from the death of Moses to that of Joshua. It consists of three parts: (1.) The history of the conquest of the land (1-12). (2.) The allotment of the land to the d"}, {"id": "card_n_f88a2c64e5b0", "title": "Easton: Asshur", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Second son of Shem (Gen. 10:22; 1 Chr. 1:17). He went from the land of Shinar and built Nineveh, etc. (Gen. 10:11, 12). He probably gave his name to Assyria, which is the usual translation of the word"}, {"id": "card_n_1909e2e3a658", "title": "Easton: Caleb", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A dog. (1.) One of the three sons of Hezron of the tribe of Judah. He is also called Chelubai (1 Chr. 2:9). His descendants are enumerated (18-20, 42-49). (2.) A “son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah"}, {"id": "card_n_dd654f861c02", "title": "Easton: Canaan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The fourth son of Ham (Gen. 10:6). His descendants were under a curse in consequence of the transgression of his father (9:22-27). His eldest son, Zidon, was the father of the Sidonians and Phoen"}, {"id": "card_n_25e270b1d029", "title": "Easton: Amorites", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Highlanders, or hillmen, the name given to the descendants of one of the sons of Canaan (Gen. 14:7), called Amurra or Amurri in the Assyrian and Egyptian inscriptions. On the early Babylonian monument"}, {"id": "card_n_063bae9f06b1", "title": "Easton: Ararat", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sacred land or high land, the name of a country on one of the mountains of which the ark rested after the Flood subsided (Gen. 8:4). The “mountains” mentioned were probably the Kurdish range of South "}, {"id": "card_n_211a08342363", "title": "Easton: Cush", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Black. (1.) A son, probably the eldest, of Ham, and the father of Nimrod (Gen. 10:8; 1 Chr. 1:10). From him the land of Cush seems to have derived its name. The question of the precise locality of the"}, {"id": "card_n_10c1d0425f60", "title": "Easton: Ed", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Witness, a word not found in the original Hebrew, nor in the LXX. and Vulgate, but added by the translators in the Authorized Version, also in the Revised Version, of Josh. 22:34. The words are litera"}]}