{"query": "Easton: Building", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_870e02ca7fd0", "title": "Easton: Building", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Among the Jews was suited to the climate and conditions of the country. They probably adopted the kind of architecture for their dwellings which they found already existing when they entered Canaan (D"}, {"id": "card_c_m_057476d477d3", "title": "Easton: Akrabbim shares a section with Easton: Building", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Akrabbim shares a section with Easton: Building."}, {"id": "card_c_m_c3732c2abb58", "title": "Easton: Building cites Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Building cites Matthew."}, {"id": "card_n_4b4a9b9519b9", "title": "Easton: Temple, Solomon’s", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Before his death David had “with all his might” provided materials in great abundance for the building of the temple on the summit of Mount Moriah (1 Chr. 22:14; 29:4; 2 Chr. 3:1), on the east of the "}, {"id": "card_n_20f4551229e5", "title": "Easton: Palace", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Used now only of royal dwellings, although originally meaning simply (as the Latin word palatium, from which it is derived, shows) a building surrounded by a fence or a paling. In the Authorized Versi"}, {"id": "card_n_45a18a8bc904", "title": "Easton: House", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Till their sojourn in Egypt the Hebrews dwelt in tents. They then for the first time inhabited cities (Gen. 47:3; Ex. 12:7; Heb. 11:9). From the earliest times the Assyrians and the Canaanites were bu"}, {"id": "card_n_4fdf3cc0a40c", "title": "Easton: City", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The earliest mention of city-building is that of Enoch, which was built by Cain (Gen. 4:17). After the confusion of tongues, the descendants of Nimrod founded several cities (10:10-12). Next, we have "}, {"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_3526c472f558", "title": "Easton: Temple, Herod’s", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The temple erected by the exiles on their return from Babylon had stood for about five hundred years, when Herod the Great became king of Judea. The building had suffered considerably from natural dec"}, {"id": "card_n_32809b73b3b4", "title": "Easton: Ark", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Noah’s ark, a building of gopher-wood, and covered with pitch, 300 cubits long, 50 cubits broad, and 30 cubits high (Gen. 6:14-16); an oblong floating house of three stories, with a door in the side a"}, {"id": "card_n_133d7ce95d65", "title": "Easton: Jasper", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. yashpheh, “glittering”), a gem of various colours, one of the twelve inserted in the high priest’s breast-plate (Ex. 28:20). It is named in the building of the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:18, 19). It"}, {"id": "card_n_930ed55d5929", "title": "Easton: Tibni", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Building of Jehovah, the son of Ginath, a man of some position, whom a considerable number of the people chose as monarch. For the period of four years he contended for the throne with Omri (1 Kings 1"}, {"id": "card_n_cdb2e39b921b", "title": "Easton: Pitch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gen. 6:14), asphalt or bitumen in its soft state, called “slime” (Gen. 11:3; 14:10; Ex. 2:3), found in pits near the Dead Sea (q.v.). It was used for various purposes, as the coating of the outside o"}, {"id": "card_n_26c5e4ae6e78", "title": "Easton: Tychicus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Chance, an Asiatic Christian, a “faithful minister in the Lord” (Eph. 6:21, 22), who, with Trophimus, accompanied Paul on a part of his journey from Macedonia to Jerusalem (Acts 20:4). He is alluded t"}, {"id": "card_n_7620c5fb7a7f", "title": "Easton: Hinge", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. tsir), that on which a door revolves. “Doors in the East turn rather on pivots than on what we term hinges. In Syria, and especially in the Hauran, there are many ancient doors, consisting of st"}, {"id": "card_n_30e64735d5f4", "title": "Easton: Pillar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Used to support a building (Judg. 16:26, 29); as a trophy or memorial (Gen. 28:18; 35:20; Ex. 24:4; 1 Sam. 15:12, A.V., “place,” more correctly “monument,” or “trophy of victory,” as in 2 Sam. 18:18);"}, {"id": "card_n_348d301c5ee0", "title": "Easton: Bricks", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The making of, formed the chief labour of the Israelites in Egypt (Ex. 1:13, 14). Those found among the ruins of Babylon and Nineveh are about a foot square and four inches thick. They were usually dr"}, {"id": "card_n_2f7565d1203f", "title": "Easton: Arch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An architectural term found only in Ezek. 40:16, 21, 22, 26, 29. There is no absolute proof that the Israelites employed arches in their buildings. The arch was employed in the building of the pyramid"}, {"id": "card_c_f7da0317e7ee", "title": "Easton: Millo ↔ Easton: Building", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both cite 1kin 9:15 — a shared-scripture cross-reference computed in 1.0 and re-verified live in both cards."}, {"id": "card_c_0d55568753bb", "title": "Easton: House ↔ Easton: Building", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both cite 1kin 7:9 — a shared-scripture cross-reference computed in 1.0 and re-verified live in both cards."}]}