{"query": "Easton: Tree of life", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_759f8b59f423", "title": "Easton: Tree of life", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Stood also in the midst of the garden of Eden (Gen. 2:9; 3:22). Some writers have advanced the opinion that this tree had some secret virtue, which was fitted to preserve life. Probably the lesson con"}, {"id": "card_n_0504c8eaaa65", "title": "Easton: Tree of the knowledge of good and evil", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Stood in the midst of the garden of Eden, beside the tree of life (Gen. 2, 3). Adam and Eve were forbidden to take of the fruit which grew upon it. But they disobeyed the divine injunction, and so sin"}, {"id": "card_n_e329b30cc288", "title": "Easton: Eternal life", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This expression occurs in the Old Testament only in Dan. 12:2 (R.V., “everlasting life”). It occurs frequently in the New Testament (Matt. 7:14; 18:8, 9; Luke 10:28; comp. 18:18). It comprises the who"}, {"id": "card_n_49c1aecc4946", "title": "Easton: Life", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Generally of physical life (Gen. 2:7; Luke 16:25, etc.); also used figuratively (1) for immortality (Heb. 7:16); (2) conduct or manner of life (Rom. 6:4); (3) spiritual life or salvation (John 3:16, 1"}, {"id": "card_n_c860098c7eae", "title": "Easton: Olive-tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is frequently mentioned in Scripture. The dove from the ark brought an olive-branch to Noah (Gen. 8:11). It is mentioned among the most notable trees of Palestine, where it was cultivated long before "}, {"id": "card_n_c5ddce835587", "title": "Easton: Bay tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Named only in Ps. 37:35, Authorized Version. The Hebrew word so rendered is ereh, which simply means “native born”, i.e., a tree not transplanted, but growing on its native soil, and therefore luxuria"}, {"id": "card_n_3b46d79dcf77", "title": "Easton: Adam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Red, a Babylonian word, the generic name for man, having the same meaning in the Hebrew and the Assyrian languages. It was the name given to the first man, whose creation, fall, and subsequent history"}, {"id": "card_n_db9e04710313", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_56: My Son, so far as thou art able to go out of thyself so far shalt thou be abl...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "My Son, so far as thou art able to go out of thyself so far shalt thou be able to enter into Me. As to desire no outward thing worketh internal peace, so the forsaking of self inwardly joineth unto Go"}, {"id": "card_n_b1ad9e3cb264", "title": "Easton: Chestnut tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ’armon; i.e., “naked”), mentioned in connection with Jacob’s artifice regarding the cattle (Gen. 30:37). It is one of the trees of which, because of its strength and beauty, the Assyrian empire "}, {"id": "card_n_3aa1ff7037be", "title": "Easton: Sycamine tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned only in Luke 17:6. It is rendered by Luther “mulberry tree” (q.v.), which is most probably the correct rendering. It is found of two species, the black mulberry (Morus nigra) and the white m"}, {"id": "card_n_8fc4ffc7fb8f", "title": "Revelation 22", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,\n2. in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of l"}, {"id": "card_n_8c107f598c19", "title": "Easton: Fig", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First mentioned in Gen. 3:7. The fig-tree is mentioned (Deut. 8:8) as one of the valuable products of Palestine. It was a sign of peace and prosperity (1 Kings 4:25; Micah 4:4; Zech. 3:10). Figs were "}, {"id": "card_n_3fb94a85bd2c", "title": "Easton: Palm tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. tamar), the date-palm characteristic of Palestine. It is described as “flourishing” (Ps. 92:12), tall (Cant. 7:7), “upright” (Jer. 10:5). Its branches are a symbol of victory (Rev. 7:9). “Rising"}, {"id": "card_n_3b62d04cb5fd", "title": "Easton: Ash", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. o’ren, “tremulous”), mentioned only Isa. 44:14 (R.V., “fir tree”). It is rendered “pine tree” both in the LXX. and Vulgate versions. There is a tree called by the Arabs aran, found still in the "}, {"id": "card_n_2c315f94ee67", "title": "Easton: Fir", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The uniform rendering in the Authorized Version (marg. R.V., “cypress”) of berosh (2 Sam. 6:5; 1 Kings 5:8, 10; 6:15, 34; 9:11, etc.), a lofty tree (Isa. 55:13) growing on Lebanon (37:24). Its wood wa"}, {"id": "card_n_60b0e3e89d33", "title": "Easton: Teil tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(an old name for the lime-tree, the tilia), Isa. 6:13, the terebinth, or turpentine-tree, the Pistacia terebinthus of botanists. The Hebrew word here used (elah) is rendered oak (q.v.) in Gen. 35:4; J"}, {"id": "card_n_d064b0d2110e", "title": "Easton: Shushan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A lily, the Susa of Greek and Roman writers, once the capital of Elam. It lay in the uplands of Susiana, on the east of the Tigris, about 150 miles to the north of the head of the Persian Gulf. It is "}, {"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_d6c43e1e28c4", "title": "Easton: Husk", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In Num. 6:4 (Heb. zag) it means the “skin” of a grape. In 2 Kings 4:42 (Heb. tsiqlon) it means a “sack” for grain, as rendered in the Revised Version. In Luke 15:16, in the parable of the Prodigal Son"}, {"id": "card_n_f0a1c95e9029", "title": "Easton: Sycamore", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "More properly sycomore (Heb. shikmoth and shikmim, Gr. sycomoros), a tree which in its general character resembles the fig-tree, while its leaves resemble those of the mulberry; hence it is called the"}]}