{"query": "Easton: Covering of the eyes", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_b30300d9d543", "title": "Easton: Covering of the eyes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Occurs only in Gen. 20:16. In the Revised Version the rendering is “it (i.e., Abimelech’s present of 1,000 pieces of silver to Abraham) is for thee a covering of the eyes.” This has been regarded as a"}, {"id": "card_c_m_179f94e8f516", "title": "Easton: Covering of the eyes shares a section with Easton: Adoption", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Covering of the eyes shares a section with Easton: Adoption."}, {"id": "card_c_m_1a56c1c79a38", "title": "Easton: Covering of the eyes shares a section with Easton: Colossians, Epistle to the", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Covering of the eyes shares a section with Easton: Colossians, Epistle to the."}, {"id": "card_n_20133338bf44", "title": "Easton: Eye", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ‘ain, meaning “flowing”), applied (1) to a fountain, frequently; (2) to colour (Num. 11:7; R.V., “appearance,” marg. “eye”); (3) the face (Ex. 10:5, 15; Num. 22:5, 11), in Num. 14:14, “face to f"}, {"id": "card_n_1ea56ef49ecb", "title": "Easton: Abimelech", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "My father a king, or father of a king, a common name of the Philistine kings, as “Pharaoh” was of the Egyptian kings. (1.) The Philistine king of Gerar in the time of Abraham (Gen. 20:1-18). By an int"}, {"id": "card_n_21c47ce5d677", "title": "Easton: Hanging", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(as a punishment), a mark of infamy inflicted on the dead bodies of criminals (Deut. 21:23) rather than our modern mode of punishment. Criminals were first strangled and then hanged (Nu. 25:4; Deut. 2"}, {"id": "card_n_8090780d2b74", "title": "Easton: Mercy-seat", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. kapporeth, a “covering;” LXX. and N.T., hilasterion; Vulg., propitiatorium), the covering or lid of the ark of the covenant (q.v.). It was of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, or perhaps rather a"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_119_81", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:81", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 119:81 — Here we have the psalmist,\nI. Longing for help from heaven: My soul faints; my eyes fail. He longs for the salvation of the Lord and for his word, that is, salvation according to th"}, {"id": "card_n_16df043077e1", "title": "Easton: Herod Agrippa I.", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Son of Aristobulus and Bernice, and grandson of Herod the Great. He was made tetrarch of the provinces formerly held by Lysanias II., and ultimately possessed the entire kingdom of his grandfather, He"}, {"id": "card_n_8dc492da8db7", "title": "Psalm 123 — Psalm 123", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<A Song of Ascents.>> To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so "}, {"id": "card_n_048bd5e3c62d", "title": "Easton: Samuel, Books of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The LXX. translators regarded the books of Samuel and of Kings as forming one continuous history, which they divided into four books, which they called “Books of the Kingdom.” The Vulgate version foll"}, {"id": "card_c_52aacdc15155", "title": "Easton: Covering of the eyes references Abimelech", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Abimelech (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_69df4bc6d7dc", "title": "Easton: Covering of the eyes references Abraham", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Abraham (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_356d00559927", "title": "Easton: Covering of the eyes references Sarah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Sarah (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_n_4ec2ad99cb08", "title": "Easton: Lot", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. goral, a “pebble”), a small stone used in casting lots (Num. 33:54; Jonah 1:7). The lot was always resorted to by the Hebrews with strictest reference to the interposition of God, and as a metho"}, {"id": "card_n_6f3da3abfe46", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_054: To this is added another form of temptation more manifoldly dangerous.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "To this is added another form of temptation more manifoldly dangerous. For besides that concupiscence of the flesh which consisteth in the delight of all senses and pleasures, wherein its slaves, who "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_genesis_6_8", "title": "Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:8", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Genesis 6:8 — We have here Noah distinguished from the rest of the world, and a peculiar mark of honour put upon him. 1. When God was displeased with the rest of the world, he favoured Noah: But No"}, {"id": "card_n_229285a68ebb", "title": "Easton: Clean", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The various forms of uncleanness according to the Mosaic law are enumerated in Lev. 11-15; Num. 19. The division of animals into clean and unclean was probably founded on the practice of sacrifice. It"}, {"id": "card_n_b8dbb045b81c", "title": "Genesis 3", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”\n2. The woman sa"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_lamentations_5_17", "title": "Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:17", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Lamentations 5:17 — Here, I. The people of God express the deep concern they had for the ruins of the temple, more than for any other of their calamities; the interests of God's house lay nearer th"}]}