{"query": "Easton: Thyine wood", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_a3e130911017", "title": "Easton: Thyine wood", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned only in Rev. 18:12 among the articles which would cease to be purchased when Babylon fell. It was called citrus, citron wood, by the Romans. It was the Callitris quadrivalvis of botanists, o"}, {"id": "card_n_1aa0292cf9e2", "title": "Easton: Almug", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 Kings 10:11, 12) = algum (2 Chr. 2:8; 9:10, 11), in the Hebrew occurring only in the plural almuggim (indicating that the wood was brought in planks), the name of a wood brought from Ophir to be us"}, {"id": "card_c_5b64370d5af8", "title": "Easton: Thyine wood references Romans", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Romans. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_811c44b51f63", "title": "Easton: Wood-offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Neh. 10:34; 13:31). It would seem that in the time of Nehemiah arrangements were made, probably on account of the comparative scarcity of wood, by which certain districts were required, as chosen by "}, {"id": "card_c_f59108795555", "title": "Easton: Thyine wood references Babylon", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Babylon (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_c_9ff16464753d", "title": "Easton: Thyine wood references Palestine", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Palestine (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_n_3cc3dc2b99e7", "title": "Easton: Aloes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ‘ahalim), a fragrant wood (Num. 24:6; Ps. 45:8; Prov. 7:17; Cant. 4:14), the Aquilaria agallochum of botanists, or, as some suppose, the costly gum or perfume extracted from the wood. It is foun"}, {"id": "card_n_a7fc06cc491a", "title": "Easton: Box-tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. teashshur), mentioned in Isa. 60:13; 41:19, was, according to some, a species of cedar growing in Lebanon. The words of Ezek. 27:6 literally translated are, “Thy benches they have made of ivory,"}, {"id": "card_n_19006cf8f9e2", "title": "Easton: Forest", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ya’ar, meaning a dense wood, from its luxuriance. Thus all the great primeval forests of Syria (Eccl. 2:6; Isa. 44:14; Jer. 5:6; Micah 5:8). The most extensive was the trans-Jordanic forest of Ep"}, {"id": "card_n_1e5cd4280b92", "title": "Easton: Ephraim, Wood of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A forest in which a fatal battle was fought between the army of David and that of Absalom, who was killed there (2 Sam. 18:6, 8). It lay on the east of Jordan, not far from Mahanaim, and was some part"}, {"id": "card_n_0e15d3f7cbfe", "title": "Easton: Acacia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. shittim) Ex. 25:5, R.V. probably the Acacia seyal (the gum-arabic tree); called the “shittah” tree (Isa. 41:19). Its wood is called shittim wood (Ex. 26:15, 26; 25:10, 13, 23, 28, etc.). This sp"}, {"id": "card_n_4f16e7b88f5f", "title": "Easton: Gopher", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A tree from the wood of which Noah was directed to build the ark (Gen. 6:14). It is mentioned only there. The LXX. render this word by “squared beams,” and the Vulgate by “planed wood.” Other versions"}, {"id": "card_n_1d71e0bdc95a", "title": "Easton: Oil-tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 41:19; R.V. marg., “oleaster”), Heb. ‘etz shemen, rendered “olive tree” in 1 Kings 6:23, 31, 32, 33 (R.V., “olive wood”) and “pine branches” in Neh. 8:15 (R.V., “branches of wild olive”), was so"}, {"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_faf9b9ecda9e", "title": "Easton: Kirjath-jearim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "City of jaars; i.e., of woods or forests, a Gibeonite town (Josh. 9:17) on the border of Benjamin, to which tribe it was assigned (18:15, 28). The ark was brought to this place (1 Sam. 7:1, 2) from Be"}, {"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; "}, {"id": "card_n_9e1ec2c36e2b", "title": "Easton: Battering-ram", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ezek. 4:2; 21:22), a military engine, consisting of a long beam of wood hung upon a frame, for making breaches in walls. The end of it which was brought against the wall was shaped like a ram’s head."}, {"id": "card_n_39146bae3d3d", "title": "Easton: Ceiling", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The covering (1 Kings 7:3, 7) of the inside roof and walls of a house with planks of wood (2 Chr. 3:5; Jer. 22:14). Ceilings were sometimes adorned with various ornaments in stucco, gold, silver, gems"}, {"id": "card_n_d708024500de", "title": "Easton: Sandals", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned only in Mark 6:9 and Acts 12:8. The sandal was simply a sole, made of wood or palm-bark, fastened to the foot by leathern straps. Sandals were also made of seal-skin (Ezek. 16:10; lit. tahas"}, {"id": "card_n_870a41f807ca", "title": "Easton: Lock", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hebrews usually secured their doors by bars of wood or iron (Isa. 45:2; 1 Kings 4:3). These were the locks originally used, and were opened and shut by large keys applied through an opening in the"}]}