{"query": "Easton: Zophim, Field of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d0290052e720", "title": "Easton: Zophim, Field of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Field of watchers, a place in Moab on the range of Pisgah (Num. 23:14). To this place Balak brought Balaam, that he might from thence curse the children of Israel. Balaam could only speak the word of "}, {"id": "card_n_47c04eb8625d", "title": "Easton: Ramathaim-zophim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The two heights of the Zophites or of the watchers (only in 1 Sam. 1:1), “in the land of Zuph” (9:5). Ramathaim is another name for Ramah (4). One of the Levitical families descended from Kohath, that"}, {"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_fe28ba888e84", "title": "Easton: Kishon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Winding, a winter torrent of Central Palestine, which rises about the roots of Tabor and Gilboa, and passing in a northerly direction through the plains of Esdraelon and Acre, falls into the Mediterra"}, {"id": "card_c_5367b4095808", "title": "Easton: Zophim, Field of references Balaam", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Balaam (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_b81461cbf703", "title": "Easton: Zophim, Field of references Balak", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Balak (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_8ddbe888ca14", "title": "Easton: Zophim, Field of references Moab", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Moab (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_87ff3004967d", "title": "Easton: Zophim, Field of references Pisgah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Pisgah (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_71d82ac3286f", "title": "Easton: Money", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of uncoined money the first notice we have is in the history of Abraham (Gen. 13:2; 20:16; 24:35). Next, this word is used in connection with the purchase of the cave of Machpelah (23:16), and again i"}, {"id": "card_n_6ff462f28016", "title": "Easton: Potters field", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to the piece of ground which was afterwards bought with the money that had been given to Judas. It was called the “field of blood” (Matt. 27:7-10). Tradition places it in the valley of "}, {"id": "card_n_11462bbce2a6", "title": "Easton: Megiddo", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Place of troops, originally one of the royal cities of the Canaanites (Josh. 12:21), belonged to the tribe of Manasseh (Judg. 1:27), but does not seem to have been fully occupied by the Israelites til"}, {"id": "card_n_0126d4715255", "title": "Easton: Aceldama", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name which the Jews gave in their proper tongue, i.e., in Aramaic, to the field which was purchased with the money which had been given to the betrayer of our Lord. The word means “field of blood."}, {"id": "card_n_d876e22fdff8", "title": "Easton: Abner", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Father of light; i.e., “enlightening”, the son of Ner and uncle of Saul. He was commander-in-chief of Saul’s army (1 Sam. 14:50; 17:55; 20:25). He first introduced David to the court of Saul after the"}, {"id": "card_n_8fa579adfa24", "title": "Easton: Abel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. Hebhel), a breath, or vanity, the second son of Adam and Eve. He was put to death by his brother Cain (Gen. 4:1-16). Guided by the instruction of their father, the two brothers were trained in t"}, {"id": "card_n_d86e1363382f", "title": "Easton: Corner", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The angle of a house (Job 1:19) or a street (Prov. 7:8). “Corners” in Neh. 9:22 denotes the various districts of the promised land allotted to the Israelites. In Num. 24:17, the “corners of Moab” deno"}, {"id": "card_n_1987410ceae9", "title": "Easton: Plague", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A “stroke” of affliction, or disease. Sent as a divine chastisement (Num. 11:33; 14:37; 16:46-49; 2 Sam. 24:21). Painful afflictions or diseases, (Lev. 13:3, 5, 30; 1 Kings 8:37), or severe calamity ("}, {"id": "card_n_9a4804e39a93", "title": "Easton: Machpelah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Portion; double cave, the cave which Abraham bought, together with the field in which it stood, from Ephron the Hittite, for a family burying-place (Gen. 23). It is one of those Bible localities about"}, {"id": "card_n_79884ef07e77", "title": "Easton: Fuller’s field", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A spot near Jerusalem (2 Kings 18:17; Isa. 36:2; 7:3), on the side of the highway west of the city, not far distant from the “upper pool” at the head of the valley of Hinnom. Here the fullers pursued "}, {"id": "card_n_4a0b9fda5e73", "title": "Easton: Eben-ezer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Stone of help, the memorial stone set up by Samuel to commemorate the divine assistance to Israel in their great battle against the Philistines, whom they totally routed (1 Sam. 7:7-12) at Aphek, in t"}, {"id": "card_n_3b46d79dcf77", "title": "Easton: Adam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Red, a Babylonian word, the generic name for man, having the same meaning in the Hebrew and the Assyrian languages. It was the name given to the first man, whose creation, fall, and subsequent history"}]}