{"query": "Easton: Version", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_ca84e7ea619b", "title": "Easton: Ashdoth-pisgah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Deut. 3:17; Josh. 12:3; 13:20) in Authorized Version, but in Revised Version translated “slopes of Pisgah.” In Deut. 4:49 it is translated in the Authorized Version “springs of Pisgah.” The name Ashd"}, {"id": "card_n_9f9aa0df6665", "title": "Easton: Bolster", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hebrew word kebir, rendered “pillow” in 1 Sam. 19:13, 16, but in Revised Version marg. “quilt” or “network,” probably means some counterpane or veil intended to protect the head of the sleeper. A "}, {"id": "card_n_a0869faf2a81", "title": "Easton: Cockatrice", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The mediaeval name (a corruption of “crocodile”) of a fabulous serpent supposed to be produced from a cock’s egg. It is generally supposed to denote the cerastes, or “horned viper,” a very poisonous s"}, {"id": "card_n_d56fe6a24940", "title": "Easton: Asuppim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 Chr. 26:15, 17, Authorized Version; but in Revised Version, “storehouse”), properly the house of stores for the priests. In Neh. 12:25 the Authorized Version has “thresholds,” marg. “treasuries” or"}, {"id": "card_n_10125cc415d2", "title": "Easton: Grove", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. ‘asherah, properly a wooden image, or a pillar representing Ashtoreth, a sensual Canaanitish goddess, probably usually set up in a grove (2 Kings 21:7; 23:4). In the Revised Version the word"}, {"id": "card_n_310f96717350", "title": "Easton: Plain", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. ‘abel (Judg. 11:33), a “grassy plain” or “meadow.” Instead of “plains of the vineyards,” as in the Authorized Version, the Revised Version has “Abel-cheramim” (q.v.), comp. Judg. 11:22; 2 Ch"}, {"id": "card_n_43df5dde2771", "title": "Easton: Amon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Builder. (1.) The governor of Samaria in the time of Ahab. The prophet Micaiah was committed to his custody (1 Kings 22:26; 2 Chr. 18:25). (2.) The son of Manasseh, and fourteenth king of Judah. He re"}, {"id": "card_n_df21a88e0bd5", "title": "Easton: Axe", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Used in the Authorized Version of Deut. 19:5; 20:19; 1 Kings 6:7, as the translation of a Hebrew word which means “chopping.” It was used for felling trees (Isa. 10:34) and hewing timber for building."}, {"id": "card_n_274c4fde7982", "title": "Easton: Ostrich", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Lam. 4:3), the rendering of Hebrew pl. enim; so called from its greediness and gluttony. The allusion here is to the habit of the ostrich with reference to its eggs, which is thus described: “The out"}, {"id": "card_n_6bd81caffadd", "title": "Easton: Syriac", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(2 Kings 18:26; Ezra 4:7; Dan. 2:4), more correctly rendered “Aramaic,” including both the Syriac and the Chaldee languages. In the New Testament there are several Syriac words, such as “Eloi, Eloi, l"}, {"id": "card_n_8ef5a09a7a77", "title": "Easton: Threshold", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. miphtan, probably a projecting beam at a higher point than the threshold proper (1 Sam. 5:4, 5; Ezek. 9:3; 10:4, 18; 46:2; 47:1); also rendered “door” and “door-post.” (2.) ‘Asuppim, pl. (Ne"}, {"id": "card_n_10b38a8777b6", "title": "Easton: Bolled", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ex. 9:31), meaning “swollen or podded for seed,” was adopted in the Authorized Version from the version of Coverdale (1535). The Revised Version has in the margin “was in bloom,” which is the more pr"}, {"id": "card_n_98bde3308459", "title": "Easton: Earrings", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Rings properly for the ear (Gen. 35:4; Num. 31:50; Ezek. 16:12). In Gen. 24:47 the word means a nose-jewel, and is so rendered in the Revised Version. In Isa. 3:20 the Authorized Version has “ear-ring"}, {"id": "card_n_da1c9fb9a8ea", "title": "Easton: Tale", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. tokhen, “a task,” as weighed and measured out = tally, i.e., the number told off; the full number (Ex. 5:18; see 1 Sam. 18:27; 1 Chr. 9:28). In Ezek. 45:11 rendered “measure.” (2.) Heb. hege"}, {"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_a631a6cc6c10", "title": "Easton: Fitches", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 28:25, 27), the rendering of the Hebrew ketsah, “without doubt the Nigella sativa, a small annual of the order Ranunculacece, which grows wild in the Mediterranean countries, and is cultivated i"}, {"id": "card_n_19a082b7ff79", "title": "Easton: Dragon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. tannim, plural of tan. The name of some unknown creature inhabiting desert places and ruins (Job 30:29; Ps. 44:19; Isa. 13:22; 34:13; 43:20; Jer. 10:22; Micah 1:8; Mal. 1:3); probably, as tr"}, {"id": "card_n_020761375870", "title": "Easton: Elhanan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whom God has graciously bestowed. (1.) A warrior of the time of David famed for his exploits. In the Authorized Version (2 Sam. 21:19) it is recorded that “Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Bethlehem"}, {"id": "card_n_fde8e823f7f7", "title": "Easton: Glass", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was known to the Egyptians at a very early period of their national history, at least B.C. 1500. Various articles both useful and ornamental were made of it, as bottles, vases, etc. A glass bottle wit"}, {"id": "card_n_7c3d825d8576", "title": "Easton: Guard", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. tabbah (properly a “cook,” and in a secondary sense “executioner,” because this office fell to the lot of the cook in Eastern countries), the bodyguard of the kings of Egypt (Gen. 37:36) and"}]}