{"query": "Easton: Wilderness", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_598e4827429b", "title": "Easton: Wilderness", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. midhbar, denoting not a barren desert but a district or region suitable for pasturing sheep and cattle (Ps. 65:12; Isa. 42:11; Jer. 23:10; Joel 1:19; 2:22); an uncultivated place. This word "}, {"id": "card_c_7c2d22f9b310", "title": "Easton: Arabia references Wilderness", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Wilderness (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_40c99943f562", "title": "Easton: Tadmor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Palm, a city built by Solomon “in the wilderness” (2 Chr. 8:4). In 1 Kings 9:18, where the word occurs in the Authorized Version, the Hebrew text and the Revised Version read “Tamar,” which is properl"}, {"id": "card_n_f78f28f15626", "title": "Easton: Desert", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. midbar, “pasture-ground;” an open tract for pasturage; a common (Joel 2:22). The “backside of the desert” (Ex. 3:1) is the west of the desert, the region behind a man, as the east is the reg"}, {"id": "card_n_fdff2a158d3f", "title": "Easton: Numbers, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The fourth of the books of the Pentateuch, called in the Hebrew be-midbar, i.e., “in the wilderness.” In the LXX. version it is called “Numbers,” and this name is now the usual title of the book. It i"}, {"id": "card_n_d6d5667b3946", "title": "Easton: Zin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A low palm-tree, the south-eastern corner of the desert et-Tih, the wilderness of Paran, between the Gulf of Akabah and the head of the Wady Guraiyeh (Num. 13:21). To be distinguished from the wildern"}, {"id": "card_n_abb38a0de7c8", "title": "Easton: Ephraim in the wilderness", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(John 11: 54), a town to which our Lord retired with his disciples after he had raised Lazarus, and when the priests were conspiring against him. It lay in the wild, uncultivated hill-country to the n"}, {"id": "card_n_157039c0eacb", "title": "Easton: Nahshon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sorcerer, the son of Aminadab, and prince of the children of Judah at the time of the first numbering of the tribes in the wilderness (Ex. 6:23). His sister Elisheba was the wife of Aaron. He died in "}, {"id": "card_n_4b410c75ecf6", "title": "Easton: Eliab", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To whom God is father. (1.) A Reubenite, son of Pallu (Num. 16:1, 12; 26:8, 9; Deut. 11:6). (2.) A son of Helon, and chief of the tribe of Zebulun at the time of the census in the wilderness (Num. 1:9"}, {"id": "card_n_1e708238853c", "title": "Easton: Wandering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of the Israelites in the wilderness in consequence of their rebellious fears to enter the Promised Land (Num. 14:26-35). They wandered for forty years before they were permitted to cross the Jordan (J"}, {"id": "card_n_c9a52b517f6a", "title": "Easton: Sin, Wilderness of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lying between Elim and sinai (Ex. 16:1; comp. Num. 33:11, 12). This was probably the narrow plain of el-Markha, which stretches along the eastern shore of the Red Sea for several miles toward the prom"}, {"id": "card_n_a57178e5d44f", "title": "Easton: Paran", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Abounding in foliage, or abounding in caverns, (Gen. 21:21), a desert tract forming the north-eastern division of the peninsula of Sinai, lying between the ‘Arabah on the east and the wilderness of Sh"}, {"id": "card_n_c1380e201728", "title": "Easton: Kadesh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Holy, or Kadesh-Barnea, sacred desert of wandering, a place on the south-eastern border of Palestine, about 165 miles from Horeb. It lay in the “wilderness” or “desert of Zin” (Gen. 14:7; Num. 13:3-26"}, {"id": "card_n_dc6d2c36d6cd", "title": "Easton: Engedi", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fountain of the kid, place in the wilderness of Judah (Josh. 15:62), on the western shore of the Dead Sea (Ezek. 47:10), and nearly equidistant from both extremities. To the wilderness near this town "}, {"id": "card_n_355983f59cb7", "title": "Easton: Murmuring", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of the Hebrews in the wilderness, called forth the displeasure of God, which was only averted by the earnest prayer of Moses (Num. 11:33, 34; 12; 14:27, 30, 31; 16:3; 21:4-6; Ps. 106:25). Forbidden by"}, {"id": "card_n_9928e0eb053b", "title": "Easton: Arbathite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A name given to Abi-albon, or, as elsewhere called, Abiel, one of David’s warriors (2 Sam. 23:31; 1 Chr. 11:32), probably as being an inhabitant of Arabah (Josh. 15:61), a town in the wilderness of Ju"}, {"id": "card_c_812d8d4ea0b1", "title": "Easton: Wilderness references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_97a2be6f81c0", "title": "Easton: Wilderness references Hebrews", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Hebrews. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_baa9d5f067d9", "title": "Easton: Wilderness cites Joel", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Joel 1:19 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_85e2abf7deb4", "title": "Easton: Wilderness cites Job", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Job 12:24 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}]}