{"query": "Easton: Stone", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_ff1eea14a476", "title": "Easton: Quarries", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The “Royal Quarries” (not found in Scripture) is the name given to the vast caverns stretching far underneath the northern hill, Bezetha, on which Jerusalem is built. Out of these mammoth caverns"}, {"id": "card_n_4a0b9fda5e73", "title": "Easton: Eben-ezer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Stone of help, the memorial stone set up by Samuel to commemorate the divine assistance to Israel in their great battle against the Philistines, whom they totally routed (1 Sam. 7:7-12) at Aphek, in t"}, {"id": "card_n_1d5f190300e8", "title": "Easton: Emerald", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. nophek (Ex. 28:18; 39:11); i.e., the “glowing stone”, probably the carbuncle, a precious stone in the breastplate of the high priest. It is mentioned (Rev. 21:19) as one of the foundations of the"}, {"id": "card_n_01db60b77439", "title": "Easton: Jacinth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Properly a flower of a reddish blue or deep purple (hyacinth), and hence a precious stone of that colour (Rev. 21:20). It has been supposed to designate the same stone as the ligure (Heb. leshem) ment"}, {"id": "card_n_7d9f2bd1d448", "title": "Easton: Beryl", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The rendering in the Authorized Version of the Hebrew word tarshish, a precious stone; probably so called as being brought from Tarshish. It was one of the stones on the breastplate of the high priest"}, {"id": "card_n_31e409bb4b82", "title": "Easton: Mill", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "For grinding corn, mentioned as used in the time of Abraham (Gen. 18:6). That used by the Hebrews consisted of two circular stones, each 2 feet in diameter and half a foot thick, the lower of which wa"}, {"id": "card_n_96e2e75fa5b7", "title": "Easton: Stone", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Stones were commonly used for buildings, also as memorials of important events (Gen. 28:18; Josh. 24:26, 27; 1 Sam. 7:12, etc.). They were gathered out of cultivated fields (Isa. 5:2; comp. 2 Kings 3:"}, {"id": "card_n_14cbb577e31e", "title": "Easton: Moabite Stone", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A basalt stone, bearing an inscription by King Mesha, which was discovered at Dibon by Klein, a German missionary at Jerusalem, in 1868. It was 3 1/2 feet high and 2 in breadth and in thickness, round"}, {"id": "card_n_c0950f401038", "title": "Barnabas VI", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "announced by the prophets._ When, therefore, He has fulfilled the commandment, what saith He? “Who is he that will contend with me? let him oppose me: or who is he that will enter into judgment with m"}, {"id": "card_n_124247017b6c", "title": "Easton: Alabaster", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Occurs only in the New Testament in connection with the box of “ointment of spikenard very precious,” with the contents of which a woman anointed the head of Jesus as he sat at supper in the house of "}, {"id": "card_n_61cdd675ca8f", "title": "Easton: Ezel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A separation, (1 Sam. 20:19), a stone, or heap of stones, in the neighbourhood of Saul’s residence, the scene of the parting of David and Jonathan (42). The margin of the Authorized Version reads, “Th"}, {"id": "card_n_6e28533e5c6d", "title": "Easton: Sardine stone", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Rev. 4:3, R.V., “sardius;” Heb. ‘odhem; LXX., Gr. sardion, from a root meaning “red”), a gem of a blood-red colour. It was called “sardius” because obtained from Sardis in Lydia. It is enumerated amo"}, {"id": "card_n_851c06706efd", "title": "Easton: Topaz", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. pitdah (Ezek. 28:13; Rev. 21:20), a golden yellow or “green” stone brought from Cush or Ethiopia (Job 28:19). It was the second stone in the first row in the breastplate of the high priest, and h"}, {"id": "card_n_572efd28fcc7", "title": "Easton: Ligure", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. leshem) occurs only in Ex. 28:19 and 39:12, as the name of a stone in the third row on the high priest’s breastplate. Some have supposed that this stone was the same as the jacinth (q.v.), other"}, {"id": "card_n_fc28befc80c3", "title": "Easton: Rock", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. tsur), employed as a symbol of God in the Old Testament (1 Sam. 2:2; 2 Sam. 22:3; Isa. 17:10; Ps. 28:1; 31:2, 3; 89:26; 95:1); also in the New Testament (Matt. 16:18; Rom. 9:33; 1 Cor. 10:4). In"}, {"id": "card_n_8817fb29e463", "title": "Easton: Sling", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "With a sling and a stone David smote the Philistine giant (1 Sam. 17:40, 49). There were 700 Benjamites who were so skilled in its use that with the left hand they “could sling stones at a hair breadt"}, {"id": "card_n_331f0c8a862f", "title": "Easton: Graving", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. hatsabh. Job 19:24, rendered “graven,” but generally means hewn stone or wood, in quarry or forest. (2.) Heb. harush. Jer. 17:1, rendered “graven,” and indicates generally artistic work in m"}, {"id": "card_n_4b8a643f9f8f", "title": "Easton: Agate", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. shebo), a precious stone in the breast-plate of the high priest (Ex. 28:19; 39:12), the second in the third row. This may be the agate properly so called, a semi-transparent crystallized quartz,"}, {"id": "card_n_edd4a5b6929d", "title": "1 Peter 2", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,\n2. as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,\n3. if indeed you ha"}, {"id": "card_n_aeffd595007c", "title": "Easton: Engraver", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. harash (Ex. 35:35; 38:23) means properly an artificer in wood, stone, or metal. The chief business of the engraver was cutting names or devices on rings and seals and signets (Ex. 28:11, 21, 36; "}]}