{"query": "Song of Solomon", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f360256df7f7", "title": "Song of Solomon", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "marriage, love, Christ and the church (typological reading)\n\n8 chapters · Solomon."}, {"id": "card_n_eae42d5ac273", "title": "Easton: Solomon, Song of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called also, after the Vulgate, the “Canticles.” It is the “song of songs” (1:1), as being the finest and most precious of its kind; the noblest song, “das Hohelied,” as Luther calls it. The Solomonic"}, {"id": "card_n_663e36151935", "title": "Easton: Degrees, Song of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Song of steps, a title given to each of these fifteen psalms, 120-134 inclusive. The probable origin of this name is the circumstance that these psalms came to be sung by the people on the ascents or "}, {"id": "card_n_8b9cacdbe1fa", "title": "Easton: Music", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jubal was the inventor of musical instruments (Gen. 4:21). The Hebrews were much given to the cultivation of music. Their whole history and literature afford abundant evidence of this. After the Delug"}, {"id": "card_n_29b06212e953", "title": "Easton: Judges, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is so called because it contains the history of the deliverance and government of Israel by the men who bore the title of the “judges.” The book of Ruth originally formed part of this book, but about "}, {"id": "card_n_683b72cdbc78", "title": "Easton: Poetry", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Has been well defined as “the measured language of emotion.” Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man’s relation to God. “Guilt, condemnation, punishment, pardon, redempti"}, {"id": "card_n_fa3a2528e0c6", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §382: Now I saw in my dream, that by this time the Pilgrims were got over the Enchanted Groun...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Now I saw in my dream, that by this time the Pilgrims were got over the Enchanted Ground, and entering into the country of Beulah, whose air was very sweet and pleasant, the way lying directly through"}, {"id": "card_n_0667b6bec0dd", "title": "Easton: Jeroboam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Increase of the people. (1.) The son of Nebat (1 Kings 11:26-39), “an Ephrathite,” the first king of the ten tribes, over whom he reigned twenty-two years (B.C. 976-945). He was the son of a widow of "}, {"id": "card_n_ea0835f4fb1b", "title": "Easton: Jasher", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Upright. “The Book of Jasher,” rendered in the LXX. “the Book of the Upright One,” by the Vulgate “the Book of Just Ones,” was probably a kind of national sacred song-book, a collection of songs in pr"}, {"id": "card_n_3f25971a39e2", "title": "Easton: Chronicles, Books of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The two books were originally one. They bore the title in the Massoretic Hebrew Dibre hayyamim, i.e., “Acts of the Days.” This title was rendered by Jerome in his Latin version “Chronicon,” and hence "}, {"id": "card_n_8396e8d48307", "title": "Easton: Nathan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Given. (1.) A prophet in the reigns of David and Solomon (2 Chr. 9:29). He is first spoken of in connection with the arrangements David made for the building of the temple (2 Sam. 7:2, 3, 17), and nex"}, {"id": "card_n_a76395b98b78", "title": "Psalm 127 — Except the LORD Build the House", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<A Song of Ascents. By Solomon.>> Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. It is vain for you to rise up e"}, {"id": "card_n_7ccceb024537", "title": "Easton: Ahijah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Brother (i.e., “friend”) of Jehovah. (1.) One of the sons of Bela (1 Chr. 8:7, R.V.). In A.V. called “Ahiah.” (2.) One of the five sons of Jerahmeel, who was great-grandson of Judah (1 Chr. 2:25). (3."}, {"id": "card_n_c20d100a8ef9", "title": "Easton: Pools of Solomon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to three large open cisterns at Etam, at the head of the Wady Urtas, having an average length of 400 feet by 220 in breadth, and 20 to 30 in depth. These pools derive their chief supply"}, {"id": "card_n_fe5173dafd38", "title": "Easton: Hiram", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "High-born. (1.) Generally “Huram,” one of the sons of Bela (1 Chr. 8:5). (2.) Also “Huram” and “Horam,” king of Tyre. He entered into an alliance with David, and assisted him in building his palace by"}, {"id": "card_n_c6915f43001a", "title": "Easton: Pomegranate", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I.e., “grained apple” (pomum granatum), Heb. rimmon. Common in Egypt (Num. 20:5) and Palestine (13:23; Deut. 8:8). The Romans called it Punicum malum, i.e., Carthaginian apple, because they received i"}, {"id": "card_n_28fbf21abcaa", "title": "Easton: Ecclesiastes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Greek rendering of the Hebrew Koheleth, which means “Preacher.” The old and traditional view of the authorship of this book attributes it to Solomon. This view can be satisfactorily maintained, th"}, {"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_n_e73f7ed94def", "title": "Easton: Azariah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whom Jehovah helps. (1.) Son of Ethan, of the tribe of Judah (1 Chr. 2:8). (2.) Son of Ahimaaz, who succeeded his grandfather Zadok as high priest (1 Chr. 6:9; 1 Kings 4:2) in the days of Solomon. He "}, {"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"}]}