{"query": "Easton: Sitting", "count": 12, "results": [{"id": "card_n_1fb3e940da43", "title": "Easton: Sitting", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The attitude generally assumed in Palestine by those who were engaged in any kind of work. “The carpenter saws, planes, and hews with his hand-adze, sitting on the ground or upon the plank he is plann"}, {"id": "card_c_2aa13b35e289", "title": "Easton: Sitting references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_3af8792d91a2", "title": "Easton: Sitting references Levi", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Levi (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_cbce771bba74", "title": "Easton: Sitting 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_d07cde39d4e7", "title": "Easton: Door-keeper", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word is used in Ps. 84:10 (R.V. marg., “stand at the threshold of,” etc.), but there it signifies properly “sitting at the threshold in the house of God.” The psalmist means that he would rather "}, {"id": "card_n_3fa5b704d071", "title": "Easton: Meals", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Are at the present day “eaten from a round table little higher than a stool, guests sitting cross-legged on mats or small carpets in a circle, and dipping their fingers into one large dish heaped with"}, {"id": "card_n_f2fc8ec22344", "title": "Easton: Sanhedrim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "More correctly Sanhedrin (Gr. synedrion), meaning “a sitting together,” or a “council.” This word (rendered “council,” A.V.) is frequently used in the New Testament (Matt. 5:22; 26:59; Mark 15:1, etc."}, {"id": "card_n_805840165576", "title": "Easton: Baruch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Blessed. (1.) The secretary of the prophet Jeremiah (32:12; 36:4). He was of the tribe of Judah (51:59). To him Jeremiah dictated his prophecies regarding the invasion of the Babylonians and the Capti"}, {"id": "card_n_85ad16419414", "title": "Easton: Lachish", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Impregnable, a royal Canaanitish city in the Shephelah, or maritime plain of Palestine (Josh. 10:3, 5; 12:11). It was taken and destroyed by the Israelites (Josh. 10:31-33). It afterwards became, unde"}, {"id": "card_n_37ef068d8441", "title": "Easton: Martha", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Bitterness, the sister of Lazarus and Mary, and probably the eldest of the family, who all resided at Bethany (Luke 10:38, 40, 41; John 11:1-39). From the residence being called “her house,” some have"}, {"id": "card_n_b8e39dea4ae9", "title": "Easton: Mahanaim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Two camps, a place near the Jabbok, beyond Jordan, where Jacob was met by the “angels of God,” and where he divided his retinue into “two hosts” on his return from Padan-aram (Gen. 32:2). This name wa"}, {"id": "card_n_554cd3b48cc5", "title": "Easton: Juniper", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. rothem), called by the Arabs retem, and known as Spanish broom; ranked under the genus genista. It is a desert shrub, and abounds in many parts of Palestine. In the account of his journey from A"}]}