{"query": "Easton: Silver", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_fa9c188fee47", "title": "Easton: Coin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Before the Exile the Jews had no regularly stamped money. They made use of uncoined shekels or talents of silver, which they weighed out (Gen. 23:16; Ex. 38:24; 2 Sam. 18:12). Probably the silver ingo"}, {"id": "card_n_4a98ab3212d9", "title": "Easton: Talent", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of silver contained 3,000 shekels (Ex. 38:25, 26), and was equal to 94 3/7 lbs. avoirdupois. The Greek talent, however, as in the LXX., was only 82 1/4 lbs. It was in the form of a circular mass, as t"}, {"id": "card_n_6fb35e2b8cbc", "title": "Easton: Charger", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A bowl or deep dish. The silver vessels given by the heads of the tribes for the services of the tabernacle are so named (Num. 7:13, etc.). The “charger” in which the Baptist’s head was presented was "}, {"id": "card_n_b0394ec585f0", "title": "Easton: Silver", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Used for a great variety of purposes, as may be judged from the frequent references to it in Scripture. It first appears in commerce in Gen. 13:2; 23:15, 16. It was largely employed for making vessels"}, {"id": "card_n_b824114e7478", "title": "Easton: Shekel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Weight, the common standard both of weight and value among the Hebrews. It is estimated at 220 English grains, or a little more than half an ounce avoirdupois. The “shekel of the sanctuary” (Ex. 30:13"}, {"id": "card_n_71d82ac3286f", "title": "Easton: Money", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of uncoined money the first notice we have is in the history of Abraham (Gen. 13:2; 20:16; 24:35). Next, this word is used in connection with the purchase of the cave of Machpelah (23:16), and again i"}, {"id": "card_n_af363d3ba5e9", "title": "Easton: Dross", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The impurities of silver separated from the one in the process of melting (Prov. 25:4; 26:23; Ps. 119:119). It is also used to denote the base metal itself, probably before it is smelted, in Isa. 1:22"}, {"id": "card_n_75a1a4a1abf4", "title": "Easton: Maktesh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mortar, a place in or near Jerusalem inhabited by silver merchants (Zeph. 1:11). It has been conjectured that it was the “Phoenician quarter” of the city, where the traders of that nation resided, aft"}, {"id": "card_n_39146bae3d3d", "title": "Easton: Ceiling", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The covering (1 Kings 7:3, 7) of the inside roof and walls of a house with planks of wood (2 Chr. 3:5; Jer. 22:14). Ceilings were sometimes adorned with various ornaments in stucco, gold, silver, gems"}, {"id": "card_n_6d7d74577f4e", "title": "Easton: Kesitah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gen. 33:19, R.V., marg., a Hebrew word, rendered, A.V., pl. “pieces of money,” marg., “lambs;” Josh. 24:32, “pieces of silver;” Job 42:11, “piece of money”). The kesitah was probably a piece of money"}, {"id": "card_n_028d70cd1e95", "title": "Easton: Bezer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ore of gold or silver. (1.) A city of the Reubenites; one of the three cities of refuge on the east of Jordan (Deut. 4: 43; Josh. 20:8). It has been identified with the modern ruined village of Burazi"}, {"id": "card_n_89f4aeeaf936", "title": "Easton: Ephron", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fawn-like. (1.) The son of Zohar a Hittite, the owner of the field and cave of Machpelah (q.v.), which Abraham bought for 400 shekels of silver (Gen. 23:8-17; 25:9; 49:29, 30). (2.) A mountain range w"}, {"id": "card_n_26706d587f17", "title": "Easton: Bit", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The curb put into the mouths of horses to restrain them. The Hebrew word (metheg) so rendered in Ps. 32:9 is elsewhere translated “bridle” (2 Kings 19:28; Prov. 26:3; Isa. 37:29). Bits were generally "}, {"id": "card_c_f4e3f986800b", "title": "Easton: Silver references India", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions India (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_a0cc96710fa4", "title": "Easton: Silver references Palestine", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Palestine (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_bf4a1d639df9", "title": "Easton: Menahem", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Conforting, the son of Gadi, and successor of Shallum, king of Israel, whom he slew. After a reign of about ten years (B.C. 771-760) he died, leaving the throne to his son Pekahiah. His reign was one "}, {"id": "card_n_b30300d9d543", "title": "Easton: Covering of the eyes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Occurs only in Gen. 20:16. In the Revised Version the rendering is “it (i.e., Abimelech’s present of 1,000 pieces of silver to Abraham) is for thee a covering of the eyes.” This has been regarded as a"}, {"id": "card_n_b7e0abd7a6e4", "title": "Easton: Amber", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ezek. 1:4, 27; 8:2. Heb., hashmal, rendered by the LXX. elektron, and by the Vulgate electrum), a metal compounded of silver and gold. Some translate the word by “polished brass,” others “fine brass,"}, {"id": "card_n_bcbf8b344ab3", "title": "Easton: Dram", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Authorized Version understood the word ‘adarkonim (1 Chr. 29:7; Ezra 8:27), and the similar word darkomnim (Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:70), as equivalent to the Greek silver coin the drachma. But the Revis"}, {"id": "card_n_06e8b4faec9b", "title": "Easton: Trumpets", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Were of a great variety of forms, and were made of divers materials. Some were made of silver (Num. 10:2), and were used only by the priests in announcing the approach of festivals and in giving signa"}]}