{"query": "Easton: Wood-offering", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_811c44b51f63", "title": "Easton: Wood-offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Neh. 10:34; 13:31). It would seem that in the time of Nehemiah arrangements were made, probably on account of the comparative scarcity of wood, by which certain districts were required, as chosen by "}, {"id": "card_n_bc90bbe21cfc", "title": "Easton: Heave offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. terumah, (Ex. 29:27) means simply an offering, a present, including all the offerings made by the Israelites as a present. This Hebrew word is frequently employed. Some of the rabbis attach to th"}, {"id": "card_n_37fd58b5ed80", "title": "Easton: Burnt offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hebrew olah; i.e., “ascending,” the whole being consumed by fire, and regarded as ascending to God while being consumed. Part of every offering was burnt in the sacred fire, but this was wholly burnt,"}, {"id": "card_n_a18d58cb31f3", "title": "Easton: Meat-offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. minhah), originally a gift of any kind. This Hebrew word came latterly to denote an “unbloody” sacrifice, as opposed to a “bloody” sacrifice. A “drink-offering” generally accompanied it. The law"}, {"id": "card_n_1aa0292cf9e2", "title": "Easton: Almug", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 Kings 10:11, 12) = algum (2 Chr. 2:8; 9:10, 11), in the Hebrew occurring only in the plural almuggim (indicating that the wood was brought in planks), the name of a wood brought from Ophir to be us"}, {"id": "card_n_0e9dce3540f1", "title": "Genesis 22", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”\n2. He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer "}, {"id": "card_n_a3e130911017", "title": "Easton: Thyine wood", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned only in Rev. 18:12 among the articles which would cease to be purchased when Babylon fell. It was called citrus, citron wood, by the Romans. It was the Callitris quadrivalvis of botanists, o"}, {"id": "card_n_3cc3dc2b99e7", "title": "Easton: Aloes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ‘ahalim), a fragrant wood (Num. 24:6; Ps. 45:8; Prov. 7:17; Cant. 4:14), the Aquilaria agallochum of botanists, or, as some suppose, the costly gum or perfume extracted from the wood. It is foun"}, {"id": "card_n_a319c7aa177c", "title": "Easton: Nazarite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. form Nazirite), the name of such Israelites as took on them the vow prescribed in Num. 6:2-21. The word denotes generally one who is separated from others and consecrated to God. Although there "}, {"id": "card_n_c6ff957ce5cf", "title": "Easton: Trespass offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ‘asham, “debt”), the law concerning, given in Lev. 5:14-6:7; also in Num. 5:5-8. The idea of sin as a “debt” pervades this legislation. The asham, which was always a ram, was offered in cases wh"}, {"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_bd4565f9ace2", "title": "Easton: Leviticus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The third book of the Pentateuch; so called in the Vulgate, after the LXX., because it treats chiefly of the Levitical service. In the first section of the book (1-17), which exhibits the worship itse"}, {"id": "card_n_19006cf8f9e2", "title": "Easton: Forest", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ya’ar, meaning a dense wood, from its luxuriance. Thus all the great primeval forests of Syria (Eccl. 2:6; Isa. 44:14; Jer. 5:6; Micah 5:8). The most extensive was the trans-Jordanic forest of Ep"}, {"id": "card_n_6cb382b0b203", "title": "Easton: Sin-offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. hattath), the law of, is given in detail in Lev. 4-6:13; 9:7-11, 22-24; 12:6-8; 15:2, 14, 25-30; 14:19, 31; Num. 6:10-14. On the day of Atonement it was made with special solemnity (Lev. 16:5, 1"}, {"id": "card_n_39fb74a3b5b2", "title": "Easton: Pentecost", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I.e., “fiftieth”, found only in the New Testament (Acts 2:1; 20:16; 1 Cor. 16:8). The festival so named is first spoken of in Ex. 23:16 as “the feast of harvest,” and again in Ex. 34:22 as “the day of"}, {"id": "card_n_1e5cd4280b92", "title": "Easton: Ephraim, Wood of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A forest in which a fatal battle was fought between the army of David and that of Absalom, who was killed there (2 Sam. 18:6, 8). It lay on the east of Jordan, not far from Mahanaim, and was some part"}, {"id": "card_n_0e15d3f7cbfe", "title": "Easton: Acacia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. shittim) Ex. 25:5, R.V. probably the Acacia seyal (the gum-arabic tree); called the “shittah” tree (Isa. 41:19). Its wood is called shittim wood (Ex. 26:15, 26; 25:10, 13, 23, 28, etc.). This sp"}, {"id": "card_n_4bf7572ddb80", "title": "Easton: Offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An oblation, dedicated to God. Thus Cain consecrated to God of the first-fruits of the earth, and Abel of the firstlings of the flock (Gen. 4:3, 4). Under the Levitical system different kinds of offer"}, {"id": "card_n_4f16e7b88f5f", "title": "Easton: Gopher", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A tree from the wood of which Noah was directed to build the ark (Gen. 6:14). It is mentioned only there. The LXX. render this word by “squared beams,” and the Vulgate by “planed wood.” Other versions"}, {"id": "card_n_724c230faf4c", "title": "Easton: Tenth deal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I.e., the tenth part of an ephah (as in the R.V.), equal to an omer or six pints. The recovered leper, to complete his purification, was required to bring a trespass, a sin, and a burnt offering, and "}]}