{"query": "Easton: Tabernacle", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f41baa987d0f", "title": "Easton: Tabernacle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A house or dwelling-place (Job 5:24; 18:6, etc.). (2.) A portable shrine (comp. Acts 19:24) containing the image of Moloch (Amos 5:26; marg. and R.V., “Siccuth”). (3.) The human body (2 Cor. 5:1,"}, {"id": "card_n_4d8e46a15883", "title": "Easton: Laver", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. kiyor), a “basin” for boiling in, a “pan” for cooking (1 Sam. 2:14), a “fire-pan” or hearth (Zech. 12:6), the sacred wash-bowl of the tabernacle and temple (Ex. 30:18, 28; 31:9; 35:16; 38:8; 39:"}, {"id": "card_n_35b091c26f80", "title": "Easton: Testimony, Tabernacle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The tabernacle, the great glory of which was that it contained “the testimony”, i.e., the “two tables” (Ex. 38:21). The ark in which these tables were deposited was called the “ark of the testimony” ("}, {"id": "card_n_21c47ce5d677", "title": "Easton: Hanging", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(as a punishment), a mark of infamy inflicted on the dead bodies of criminals (Deut. 21:23) rather than our modern mode of punishment. Criminals were first strangled and then hanged (Nu. 25:4; Deut. 2"}, {"id": "card_n_f0e14669bc14", "title": "Easton: Tent", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. ‘ohel (Gen. 9:21, 27). This word is used also of a dwelling or habitation (1 Kings 8:66; Isa. 16:5; Jer. 4:20), and of the temple (Ezek. 41:1). When used of the tabernacle, as in 1 Kings 1:3"}, {"id": "card_n_dca1c1459204", "title": "Easton: Merarites", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The descendants of Merari (Num. 26:57). They with the Gershonites and the Kohathites had charge of the tabernacle, which they had to carry from place to place (Num. 3:20, 33-37; 4:29-33). In the distr"}, {"id": "card_n_e35d786e1020", "title": "Easton: Holy of holies", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The second or interior portion of the tabernacle. It was left in total darkness. No one was permitted to enter it except the high priest, and that only once a year. It contained the ark of the covenan"}, {"id": "card_n_d860e005d627", "title": "Easton: Kohathites", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The descendants of Kohath. They formed the first of the three divisions of the Levites (Ex. 6:16, 18; Num. 3:17). In the journeyings of the Israelites they had the charge of the most holy portion of t"}, {"id": "card_n_d8610d9ae8d6", "title": "Easton: Shittah-tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 41:19; R.V., “acacia tree”). Shittah wood was employed in making the various parts of the tabernacle in the wilderness, and must therefore have been indigenous in the desert in which the Israeli"}, {"id": "card_n_1d9002e393d5", "title": "Easton: Death", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "May be simply defined as the termination of life. It is represented under a variety of aspects in Scripture: (1.) “The dust shall return to the earth as it was” (Eccl. 12:7). (2.) “Thou takest away th"}, {"id": "card_n_78597846927c", "title": "Easton: Shechinah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Chaldee word meaning resting-place, not found in Scripture, but used by the later Jews to designate the visible symbol of God’s presence in the tabernacle, and afterwards in Solomon’s temple. When t"}, {"id": "card_n_29c59372926d", "title": "Easton: Candlestick", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The lamp-stand, “candelabrum,” which Moses was commanded to make for the tabernacle, according to the pattern shown him. Its form is described in Ex. 25:31-40; 37:17-24, and may be seen represented on"}, {"id": "card_c_cde308df91fc", "title": "Easton: Tabernacle references Exodus", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Exodus. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_be5e25d633e1", "title": "Easton: Tabernacle cites Job", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Job 5:24 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_ed3ff62a9336", "title": "Easton: Tabernacle cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 19:24 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_6112112fb3f1", "title": "Easton: Tabernacle cites Amos", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Amos 5:26 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_42f43b17ae59", "title": "Easton: Gershon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Ger’shom expulsion, the eldest of Levi’s three sons (Gen. 46:11; Ex. 6:16). In the wilderness the sons of Gershon had charge of the fabrics of the tabernacle when it was moved from place to place, th"}, {"id": "card_n_9cd847459194", "title": "Easton: Carve", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The arts of engraving and carving were much practised among the Jews. They were practised in connection with the construction of the tabernacle and the temple (Ex. 31:2, 5; 35:33; 1 Kings 6:18, 35; Ps"}, {"id": "card_n_fd437900c454", "title": "Easton: Fillets", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. hashukum, plur., joinings (Ex. 27:17; 38:17, 28), the rods by which the tops of the columns around the tabernacle court were joined together, and from which the curtains were suspended (Ex. 27:10"}, {"id": "card_n_4903af14d7bb", "title": "Easton: Armoury", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The place in which armour was deposited when not used (Neh. 3:19; Jer. 50:25). At first each man of the Hebrews had his own arms, because all went to war. There were no arsenals or magazines for arms "}]}