{"query": "Easton: Villages", "count": 15, "results": [{"id": "card_n_ec34a31766b5", "title": "Easton: Villages", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Judg. 5:7, 11). The Hebrew word thus rendered (perazon) means habitations in the open country, unwalled villages (Deut. 3:5; 1 Sam. 6:18). Others, however, following the LXX. and the Vulgate versions"}, {"id": "card_n_6bd16e73d103", "title": "Easton: Fenced cities", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There were in Palestine (1) cities, (2) unwalled villages, and (3) villages with castles or towers (1 Chr. 27:25). Cities, so called, had walls, and were thus fenced. The fortifications consisted of o"}, {"id": "card_n_8c803390abeb", "title": "Easton: Bashan-havoth-jair", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Bashan of the villages of Jair, the general name given to Argob by Jair, the son of Manasseh (Deut. 3:14), containing sixty cities with walls and brazen gates (Josh. 13:30; 1 Kings 4:13). (See ARG"}, {"id": "card_n_029eb6f87373", "title": "Easton: Avim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A people dwelling in Hazerim, or “the villages” or “encampments” on the south-west corner of the sea-coast (Deut. 2:23). They were subdued and driven northward by the Caphtorim. A trace of them is aft"}, {"id": "card_n_ed08f04489c2", "title": "Easton: Havoth-jair", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hamlets of the enlightener a district in the east of Jordan. (1.) Jair, the son of Manasseh, took some villages of Gilead and called them by this name (Num. 32:41). (2.) Again, it is said that Jair “t"}, {"id": "card_n_446dfc378ee1", "title": "Easton: Wall", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cities were surrounded by walls, as distinguished from “unwalled villages” (Ezek. 38:11; Lev. 25:29-34). They were made thick and strong (Num. 13:28; Deut. 3:5). Among the Jews walls were built of sto"}, {"id": "card_n_18f9e3f5191a", "title": "Easton: Helbon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fat; i.e., “fertile”, (Ezek. 27: 18 only), a place whence wine was brought to the great market of Tyre. It has been usually identified with the modern Aleppo, called Haleb by the native Arabs, but is "}, {"id": "card_n_aa4b0b3d72a5", "title": "Easton: Field", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. sadeh), a cultivated field, but unenclosed. It is applied to any cultivated ground or pasture (Gen. 29:2; 31:4; 34:7), or tillage (Gen. 37:7; 47:24). It is also applied to woodland (Ps. 132:6) o"}, {"id": "card_n_b626a30065df", "title": "Easton: Daughter", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word, besides its natural and proper sense, is used to designate, (1.) A niece or any female descendant (Gen. 20:12; 24:48; 28:6). (2.) Women as natives of a place, or as professing the religion "}, {"id": "card_n_db6a21bc8bc8", "title": "Easton: Jair", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Enlightener. (1.) The son of Segub. He was brought up with his mother in Gilead, where he had possessions (1 Chr. 2:22). He distinguished himself in an expedition against Bashan, and settled in the pa"}, {"id": "card_n_24ac6d8f5a49", "title": "Easton: Zaanaim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Wanderings; the unloading of tents, so called probably from the fact of nomads in tents encamping amid the cities and villages of that region, a place in the north-west of Lake Merom, near Kedesh, in "}, {"id": "card_n_72f635ddf5e8", "title": "Easton: Fish", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called dag by the Hebrews, a word denoting great fecundity (Gen. 9:2; Num. 11:22; Jonah 2:1, 10). No fish is mentioned by name either in the Old or in the New Testament. Fish abounded in the Mediterra"}, {"id": "card_n_ab2f253defea", "title": "Easton: Beth-horon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "House of the hollow, or of the cavern, the name of two towns or villages (2 Chr. 8:5; 1 Chr. 7:24) in the territory of Ephraim, on the way from Jerusalem to Joppa. They are distinguished as Beth-horon"}, {"id": "card_n_5e99120b85a0", "title": "Easton: Carmel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A park; generally with the article, “the park.” (1.) A prominent headland of Central Palestine, consisting of several connected hills extending from the plain of Esdraelon to the sea, a distance of so"}, {"id": "card_n_ca7c5314c056", "title": "Easton: Siloam, Tower of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned only Luke 13:4. The place here spoken of is the village now called Silwan, or Kefr Silwan, on the east of the valley of Kidron, and to the north-east of the pool. It stands on the west slope"}]}