{"query": "Easton: Ships", "count": 17, "results": [{"id": "card_n_fe3173c11f72", "title": "Easton: Ships", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Early used in foreign commerce by the Phoenicians (Gen. 49:13). Moses (Deut. 28:68) and Job (9:26) make reference to them, and Balaam speaks of the “ships of Chittim” (Num. 24:24). Solomon constructed"}, {"id": "card_n_2d1a75ba29dc", "title": "Easton: Ezion-geber", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The giant’s backbone (so called from the head of a mountain which runs out into the sea), an ancient city and harbour at the north-east end of the Elanitic branch of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Akabah, n"}, {"id": "card_n_d5eef759c399", "title": "Easton: Chittim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Or Kittim, a plural form (Gen. 10:4), the name of a branch of the descendants of Javan, the “son” of Japheth. Balaam foretold (Num. 24:24) “that ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and afflict"}, {"id": "card_c_1a83460b4af7", "title": "Easton: Ships cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 9:26; 1 Kings 22:48 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_8ba38c375fa6", "title": "Easton: Rudder bands", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ancient ships had two great broad-bladed oars for rudders. These, when not in use, were lifted out of the water and bound or tied up. When required for use, these bands were unloosed and the rudders a"}, {"id": "card_c_891ed90ba706", "title": "Easton: Ships references Balaam", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Balaam (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_7ce8f4b874b1", "title": "Easton: Ships references Galilee", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Galilee (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_b737ffadcd41", "title": "Easton: Ships references Hiram", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Hiram (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_e5da432f22b5", "title": "Easton: Ships references Jehoshaphat", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jehoshaphat (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_e086fb9c3d18", "title": "Easton: Peacock", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. tuk, apparently borrowed from the Tamil tokei). This bird is indigenous to India. It was brought to Solomon by his ships from Tarshish (1 Kings 10:22; 2 Chr. 9:21), which in this case was probab"}, {"id": "card_c_de66b819054d", "title": "Easton: Ships references Ezion-geber", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Ezion-geber (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_c74bdf7a2498", "title": "Easton: Puteoli", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A city on the coast of Campania, on the north shore of a bay running north from the Bay of Naples, at which Paul landed on his way to Rome, from which it was distant 170 miles. Here he tarried for sev"}, {"id": "card_n_2c315f94ee67", "title": "Easton: Fir", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The uniform rendering in the Authorized Version (marg. R.V., “cypress”) of berosh (2 Sam. 6:5; 1 Kings 5:8, 10; 6:15, 34; 9:11, etc.), a lofty tree (Isa. 55:13) growing on Lebanon (37:24). Its wood wa"}, {"id": "card_n_5d8fdf250248", "title": "Easton: Tarshish", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Sanscrit or Aryan word, meaning “the sea coast.” (1.) One of the “sons” of Javan (Gen. 10:4; 1 Chr. 1:7). (2.) The name of a place which first comes into notice in the days of Solomon. The question "}, {"id": "card_n_ed195bbfc4a9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_092: To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a tur...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him. ["}, {"id": "card_n_14c77f15675e", "title": "Psalm 48 — Psalm 48", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.>> Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain. Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, o"}, {"id": "card_n_6ef58109b156", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_031: But what marvel that I was thus carried away to vanities, and went out from T...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what marvel that I was thus carried away to vanities, and went out from Thy presence, O my God, when men were set before me as models, who, if in relating some action of theirs, in itself not ill,"}]}