{"query": "Easton: Washing", "count": 6, "results": [{"id": "card_n_550bc6970481", "title": "Easton: Purification", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The process by which a person unclean, according to the Levitical law, and thereby cut off from the sanctuary and the festivals, was restored to the enjoyment of all these privileges. The great annual"}, {"id": "card_n_5b73aa3dee52", "title": "Easton: Washing", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Mark 7:1-9). The Jews, like other Orientals, used their fingers when taking food, and therefore washed their hands before doing so, for the sake of cleanliness. Here the reference is to the ablutions"}, {"id": "card_c_e0e654695f86", "title": "Easton: Washing cites Mark", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Mark 7:1 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_08e7380bc788", "title": "Easton: Basin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Or Bason. (1.) A trough or laver (Heb. aggan’) for washing (Ex. 24:6); rendered also “goblet” (Cant. 7:2) and “cups” (Isa. 22:24). (2.) A covered dish or urn (Heb. k’for) among the vessels of the temp"}, {"id": "card_n_7f07a0785478", "title": "Easton: Hand", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called by Galen “the instrument of instruments.” It is the symbol of human action (Ps. 9:16; Job 9:30; Isa. 1:15; 1 Tim. 2:8). Washing the hands was a symbol of innocence (Ps. 26:6; 73:13; Matt. 27:24"}, {"id": "card_n_c929193bbe24", "title": "Easton: Ablution", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Or washing, was practised, (1.) When a person was initiated into a higher state: e.g., when Aaron and his sons were set apart to the priest’s office, they were washed with water previous to their inve"}]}