{"query": "Easton: Tiberias, Sea of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_7dbf0c0d0bed", "title": "Easton: Tiberias, Sea of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called also the Sea of Galilee (q.v.) and of Gennesaret. In the Old Testament it is called the Sea of Chinnereth or Chinneroth. John (21:1) is the only evangelist who so designates this lake. His doin"}, {"id": "card_n_fc8307aaf1f1", "title": "Easton: Tiberias", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A city, the modern Tubarich, on the western shore of the Sea of Tiberias. It is said to have been founded by Herod Antipas (A.D. 16), on the site of the ruins of an older city called Rakkath, and to h"}, {"id": "card_c_4715e27460bc", "title": "Easton: Galilee, Sea of references Tiberias", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Tiberias (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_1084bfdf5d6b", "title": "Easton: Galilee, Sea of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Matt. 4:18; 15:29), is mentioned in the Bible under three other names. (1.) In the Old Testament it is called the “sea of Chinnereth” (Num. 34:11; Josh. 12:3; 13:27), as is supposed from its harp-lik"}, {"id": "card_n_31819ec91828", "title": "Easton: Chinnereth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lyre, the singular form of the word (Deut. 3:17; Josh. 19:35), which is also used in the plural form, Chinneroth, the name of a fenced city which stood near the shore of the lake of Galilee, a little "}, {"id": "card_n_f482062a5171", "title": "Easton: Dead Sea", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given by Greek writers of the second century to that inland sea called in Scripture the “salt sea” (Gen. 14:3; Num. 34:12), the “sea of the plain” (Deut. 3:17), the “east sea” (Ezek. 47:18; J"}, {"id": "card_n_ac0230afbb6e", "title": "Easton: Aphik", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Judg. 1:31); Aphek (Josh. 13:4; 19:30), stronghold. (1.) A city of the tribe of Asher. It was the scene of the licentious worship of the Syrian Aphrodite. The ruins of the temple, “magnificent ruins”"}, {"id": "card_n_2a235473b1eb", "title": "Easton: Red Sea", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The sea so called extends along the west coast of Arabia for about 1,400 miles, and separates Asia from Africa. It is connected with the Indian Ocean, of which it is an arm, by the Strait of Bab-el-Ma"}, {"id": "card_n_f5b7b677ec46", "title": "Easton: Cinnereth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A harp, one of the “fenced cities” of Naphtali (Josh. 19:35; comp. Deut. 3:17). It also denotes, apparently, a district which may have taken its name from the adjacent city or lake of Gennesaret, anci"}, {"id": "card_n_d86de59288dd", "title": "Easton: Sea, The", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. yam), signifies (1) “the gathering together of the waters,” the ocean (Gen. 1:10); (2) a river, as the Nile (Isa. 19:5), the Euphrates (Isa. 21:1; Jer. 51:36); (3) the Red Sea (Ex. 14:16, 27; 15"}, {"id": "card_n_08158d7be922", "title": "Easton: Red Sea, Passage of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The account of the march of the Israelites through the Red Sea is given in Ex. 14:22-31. There has been great diversity of opinion as to the precise place where this occurred. The difficulty of arrivi"}, {"id": "card_n_8e6caf7324a9", "title": "Easton: Fishing, the art of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was prosecuted with great industry in the waters of Palestine. It was from the fishing-nets that Jesus called his disciples (Mark 1:16-20), and it was in a fishing-boat he rebuked the winds and the wa"}, {"id": "card_c_bb13a25051f9", "title": "Easton: Naphtali, Tribe of references Tiberias", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Tiberias (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_ea5bf3954933", "title": "Easton: Fishing, the art of references Tiberias", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Tiberias (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_78ef34b2e7cf", "title": "Easton: Whale", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hebrew word tan (plural, tannin) is so rendered in Job 7:12 (A.V.; but R.V., “sea-monster”). It is rendered by “dragons” in Deut. 32:33; Ps. 91:13; Jer. 51:34; Ps. 74:13 (marg., “whales;” and marg"}, {"id": "card_n_e2f84b7c548a", "title": "Easton: Bethsaida", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "House of fish. (1.) A town in Galilee, on the west side of the sea of Tiberias, in the “land of Gennesaret.” It was the native place of Peter, Andrew, and Philip, and was frequently resorted to by Jes"}, {"id": "card_n_0e14904f7a3d", "title": "Easton: Nathanael", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Given or gift of God, one of our Lord’s disciples, “of Cana in Galilee” (John 21:2). He was “an Israelite indeed, in whom was no guile” (1:47, 48). His name occurs only in the Gospel of John, who in h"}, {"id": "card_n_98dd9029819c", "title": "Easton: Cana", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Reedy, a town of Galilee, near Capernaum. Here our Lord wrought his first miracle, the turning of water into wine (John 2:1-11; 4:46). It is also mentioned as the birth-place of Nathanael (21:2). It i"}, {"id": "card_n_47f446ed7a6e", "title": "Easton: Kartan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Double city, a town of Naphali, assigned to the Gershonite Levites, and one of the cities of refuge (Josh. 21:32). It was probably near the north-western shore of the Sea of Tiberias, identical with t"}, {"id": "card_n_8dfa0797559c", "title": "Easton: Siddim, Vale of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Valley of the broad plains, “which is the salt sea” (Gen. 14:3, 8, 10), between Engedi and the cities of the plain, at the south end of the Dead Sea. It was “full of slime-pits” (R.V., “bitumen pits”)"}]}