{"query": "Easton: Sun", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_876ff200d814", "title": "Easton: On", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Light; the sun, (Gen. 41:45, 50), the great seat of sun-worship, called also Bethshemesh (Jer. 43:13) and Aven (Ezek. 30:17), stood on the east bank of the Nile, a few miles north of Memphis, and near"}, {"id": "card_n_12f104078338", "title": "Easton: Pharaoh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The official title borne by the Egyptian kings down to the time when that country was conquered by the Greeks. (See EGYPT.) The name is a compound, as some think, of the words Ra, the “sun” or “sun-go"}, {"id": "card_n_e09878be59a1", "title": "Easton: Sun", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. shemesh), first mentioned along with the moon as the two great luminaries of heaven (Gen. 1:14-18). By their motions and influence they were intended to mark and divide times and seasons. The wo"}, {"id": "card_n_da00b9e26bdc", "title": "Easton: Eclipse", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of the sun alluded to in Amos 8:9; Micah 3:6; Zech. 14:6; Joel 2:10. Eclipses were regarded as tokens of God’s anger (Joel 3:15; Job 9:7). The darkness at the crucifixion has been ascribed to an eclip"}, {"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_8f7df58b30e4", "title": "Easton: Dial", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "For the measurement of time, only once mentioned in the Bible, erected by Ahaz (2 Kings 20:11; Isa. 38:8). The Hebrew word (ma’aloth) is rendered “steps” in Ex. 20:26, 1 Kings 10:19, and “degrees” in "}, {"id": "card_n_ecd6bf69ab02", "title": "Easton: Window", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Properly only an opening in a house for the admission of light and air, covered with lattice-work, which might be opened or closed (2 Kings 1:2; Acts 20:9). The spies in Jericho and Paul at Damascus w"}, {"id": "card_n_0f01472ffa63", "title": "Easton: Baalbec", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called by the Greeks Heliopolis i.e., “the city of the sun”, because of its famous Temple of the Sun, has by some been supposed to be Solomon’s “house of the forest of Lebanon” (1 Kings 7:2; 10:17; 2 "}, {"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_551d0d66e5a8", "title": "Easton: Rameses", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“the land of” (Gen. 47:11), was probably “the land of Goshen” (q.v.) 45:10. After the Hebrews had built Rameses, one of the “treasure cities,” it came to be known as the “land” in which that city was "}, {"id": "card_n_df411a23656a", "title": "Easton: Moon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. yareah, from its paleness (Ezra 6:15), and lebanah, the “white” (Cant. 6:10; Isa. 24:23), was appointed by the Creator to be with the sun “for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years” (Ge"}, {"id": "card_c_8f31bdb291a2", "title": "Easton: Sun cites Job", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Job 31:26 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_b3c99d128f47", "title": "Easton: Sun cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 23:11 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_0b082cb30896", "title": "Easton: Adrammelech", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Adar the king. (1.) An idol; a form of the sun-god worshipped by the inhabitants of Sepharvaim (2 Kings 17:31), and brought by the Sepharvite colonists into Samaria. (2.) A son of Sennacherib, king of"}, {"id": "card_n_31ac5dc386b7", "title": "Easton: Anammelech", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the gods worshipped by the people of Sepharvaim, who colonized Samaria (2 Kings 17:31). The name means “Anu is king.” It was a female deity representing the moon, as Adrammelech (q.v.) was the "}, {"id": "card_n_5ca55b6b0a65", "title": "Easton: Daystar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Which precedes and accompanies the sun-rising. It is found only in 2 Pet. 1:19, where it denotes the manifestation of Christ to the soul, imparting spiritual light and comfort. He is the “bright and m"}, {"id": "card_n_79d96d4ce644", "title": "Easton: Circuit", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The apparent diurnal revolution of the sun round the earth (Ps. 19:6), and the changes of the wind (Eccl. 1:6). In Job 22:14, “in the circuit of heaven” (R.V. marg., “on the vault of heaven”) means th"}, {"id": "card_n_fd1d7f3dc6c6", "title": "Easton: Parched ground", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 35:7), Heb. sharab, a “mirage”, a phenomenon caused by the refraction of the rays of the sun on the glowing sands of the desert, causing them suddenly to assume the appearance of a beautiful lak"}, {"id": "card_n_6eba83844b45", "title": "Easton: Spicery", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. nechoth, identified with the Arabic naka’at, the gum tragacanth, obtained from the astralagus, of which there are about twenty species found in Palestine. The tragacanth of commerce is obtained f"}, {"id": "card_n_79e6ebdddfaf", "title": "Easton: Nitre", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Prov. 25:20; R.V. marg., “soda”), properly “natron,” a substance so called because, rising from the bottom of the Lake Natron in Egypt, it becomes dry and hard in the sun, and is the soda which effer"}]}