{"query": "Easton: Stones, Precious", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_e57a6f7e1e91", "title": "Easton: Stones, Precious", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Frequently referred to (1 Kings 10:2; 2 Chr. 3:6; 9:10; Rev. 18:16; 21:19). There are about twenty different names of such stones in the Bible. They are figuratively introduced to denote value, beauty"}, {"id": "card_n_4311015c2a88", "title": "Easton: Diamond", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A precious gem (Heb. yahalom’, in allusion to its hardness), otherwise unknown, the sixth, i.e., the third in the second row, in the breastplate of the high priest, with the name of Naphtali engr"}, {"id": "card_n_ffeeceec3561", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_06_09: Rabbi Yose ben Kisma said: Once I was walking by the way when a man met me, a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Rabbi Yose ben Kisma said: Once I was walking by the way when a man met me, and greeted me and I greeted him. He said to me, “Rabbi, where are you from?” I said to him, “I am from a great city of sage"}, {"id": "card_c_336ed6dba9aa", "title": "Easton: Stones, Precious cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 10:2 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"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_e7d8c51ff019", "title": "Easton: Sapphire", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Associated with diamonds (Ex. 28:18) and emeralds (Ezek. 28:13); one of the stones in the high priest’s breastplate. It is a precious stone of a sky-blue colour, probably the lapis lazuli, brought fro"}, {"id": "card_n_7d599fee868f", "title": "Easton: Malcam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(2 Sam. 12:30, Heb., R.V., “their king;” Jer. 49:1, 3, R.V.; Zeph. 1:5), the national idol of the Ammonites. When Rabbah was taken by David, the crown of this idol was among the spoils. The weight is "}, {"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_e7bf927c3cbe", "title": "Easton: Chalcedony", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned only in Rev. 21:19, as one of the precious stones in the foundation of the New Jerusalem. The name of this stone is derived from Chalcedon, where it is said to have been first discovered. In"}, {"id": "card_n_1ab6b9f04639", "title": "Easton: Michtam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Writing; i.e., a poem or song found in the titles of Ps. 16; 56-60. Some translate the word “golden”, i.e., precious. It is rendered in the LXX. by a word meaning “tablet inscription” or a “stelograph"}, {"id": "card_n_72ee8398374b", "title": "Easton: Amethyst", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the precious stones in the breastplate of the high priest (Ex. 28:19; 39:12), and in the foundation of the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:20). The ancients thought that this stone had the power of disp"}, {"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_13fa61aa39c6", "title": "Easton: Carbuncle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ex. 28:17; 39:10; Ezek. 28:13). Heb. barkath; LXX. smaragdos; Vulgate, smaragdus; Revised Version, marg., “emerald.” The Hebrew word is from a root meaning “to glitter,” “lighten,” “flash.” When held"}, {"id": "card_n_96d9dee329be", "title": "Easton: Ephod", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Something girt, a sacred vestment worn originally by the high priest (Ex. 28:4), afterwards by the ordinary priest (1 Sam. 22:18), and characteristic of his office (1 Sam. 2:18, 28; 14:3). It was worn"}, {"id": "card_n_0bcbfdc90abe", "title": "Easton: Breastplate", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) That piece of ancient armour that protected the breast. This word is used figuratively in Eph. 6:14 and Isa. 59:17. (See ARMOUR.) (2.) An ornament covering the breast of the high priest, first me"}, {"id": "card_n_0f67e299c837", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_04_17: He used to say: more precious is one hour in repentance and good deeds in thi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He used to say: more precious is one hour in repentance and good deeds in this world, than all the life of the world to come; And more precious is one hour of the tranquility of the world to come, tha"}, {"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_4a14f154615a", "title": "Easton: Sheba", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An oath, seven. (1.) Heb. shebha, the son of Raamah (Gen. 10:7), whose descendants settled with those of Dedan on the Persian Gulf. (2.) Heb. id. A son of Joktan (Gen. 10:28), probably the founder of "}, {"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_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"}]}