{"query": "Easton: Spring", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_1f1402a867c0", "title": "Easton: En-shemesh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fountain of the sun a spring which formed one of the landmarks on the boundary between Judah and Benjamin (Josh. 15:7; 18:17). It was between the “ascent of Adummim” and the spring of En-rogel, and he"}, {"id": "card_n_a91e51b20a53", "title": "Easton: En-hakkore", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fountain of the crier, the name of the spring in Lehi which burst forth in answer to Samson’s prayer when he was exhausted with the slaughter of the Philistines (Judg. 15:19). It has been identified w"}, {"id": "card_n_30fd654bdec4", "title": "Easton: Spring", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ‘ain, “the bright open source, the eye of the landscape”). To be carefully distinguished from “well” (q.v.). “Springs” mentioned in Josh. 10:40 (Heb. ‘ashdoth) should rather be “declivities” or "}, {"id": "card_n_681bd049134f", "title": "Easton: Fountain of the Virgin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The perennial source from which the Pool of Siloam (q.v.) is supplied, the waters flowing in a copious stream to it through a tunnel cut through the rock, the actual length of which is 1,750 feet. The"}, {"id": "card_n_27ce3e403bbd", "title": "Easton: Nephtoah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Opened, a fountain and a stream issuing from it on the border between Judah and Benjamin (Josh. 15:8, 9; 18:15). It has been identified with ‘Ain Lifta, a spring about 2 1/2 miles north-west of Jerusa"}, {"id": "card_n_598a3e749813", "title": "Easton: Tamarisk", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ‘eshel (Gen. 21:33; 1 Sam. 22:6; 31:13, in the R.V.; but in A.V., “grove,” “tree”); Arab. asal. Seven species of this tree are found in Palestine. It is a “very graceful tree, with long feathery "}, {"id": "card_n_9041d3984d8c", "title": "Easton: Gin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A trap. (1.) Ps. 140:5, 141:9, Amos 3:5, the Hebrew word used, mokesh, means a noose or “snare,” as it is elsewhere rendered (Ps. 18:5; Prov. 13:14, etc.). (2.) Job 18:9, Isa. 8:14, Heb. pah, a plate "}, {"id": "card_n_3a411d985152", "title": "Easton: Gilboa", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Boiling spring, a mountain range, now Jebel Fukua’, memorable as the scene of Saul’s disastrous defeat by the Philistines. Here also his three sons were slain, and he himself died by his own hand (1 S"}, {"id": "card_n_96ee967d8fb2", "title": "Easton: Dromedary", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 60:6), an African or Arabian species of camel having only one hump, while the Bactrian camel has two. It is distinguished from the camel only as a trained saddle-horse is distinguished from a ca"}, {"id": "card_n_07b89f961a31", "title": "Easton: Jezreel, Fountain of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Where Saul encamped before the battle of Gilboa (1 Sam. 29:1). In the valley under Zerin there are two considerable springs, one of which, perhaps that here referred to, “flows from under a sort of ca"}, {"id": "card_n_77a324462f46", "title": "Easton: Swallow", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. sis (Isa. 38:14; Jer. 8:7), the Arabic for the swift, which “is a regular migrant, returning in myriads every spring, and so suddenly that while one day not a swift can be seen in the countr"}, {"id": "card_n_d55b53b6cb37", "title": "Easton: Grass", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. hatsir, ripe grass fit for mowing (1 Kings 18:5; Job 40:15; Ps. 104:14). As the herbage rapidly fades under the scorching sun, it is used as an image of the brevity of human life (Isa. 40:6,"}, {"id": "card_n_4aa461fa3235", "title": "Easton: Cucumbers", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. plur. kishshuim; i.e., “hard,” “difficult” of digestion, only in Num. 11:5). This vegetable is extensively cultivated in the East at the present day, as it appears to have been in earlier times "}, {"id": "card_n_80da48213a3c", "title": "Easton: Rimmon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Pomegranate. (1.) A man of Beeroth (2 Sam. 4:2), one of the four Gibeonite cities. (See Josh. 9:17.) (2.) A Syrian idol, mentioned only in 2 Kings 5:18. (3.) One of the “uttermost cities” of Judah, af"}, {"id": "card_n_6b1770d0f70d", "title": "Easton: Rain", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are three Hebrew words used to denote the rains of different seasons, (1.) Yoreh (Hos. 6:3), or moreh (Joel 2:23), denoting the former or the early rain. (2.) Melqosh, the “latter rain” (Prov. 1"}, {"id": "card_n_73af504cc8a1", "title": "Easton: Regeneration", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Only found in Matt. 19:28 and Titus 3:5. This word literally means a “new birth.” The Greek word so rendered (palingenesia) is used by classical writers with reference to the changes produced by the r"}, {"id": "card_n_c87916837c0d", "title": "Easton: Eagle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Herb. nesher; properly the griffon vulture or great vulture, so called from its tearing its prey with its beak), referred to for its swiftness of flight (Deut. 28:49; 2 Sam. 1:23), its mounting high "}, {"id": "card_n_a3f4ed09ea98", "title": "Easton: Fountain", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ‘ain; i.e., “eye” of the water desert), a natural source of living water. Palestine was a “land of brooks of water, of fountains, and depths that spring out of valleys and hills” (Deut. 8:7; 11:"}, {"id": "card_n_f78f28f15626", "title": "Easton: Desert", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. midbar, “pasture-ground;” an open tract for pasturage; a common (Joel 2:22). The “backside of the desert” (Ex. 3:1) is the west of the desert, the region behind a man, as the east is the reg"}, {"id": "card_n_b2f6fee38af3", "title": "Easton: Colossians, Epistle to the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written by Paul at Rome during his first imprisonment there (Acts 28:16, 30), probably in the spring of A.D. 57, or, as some think, 62, and soon after he had written his Epistle to the Ephesians. "}]}