{"query": "Easton: Curious arts", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_bf1728699053", "title": "Easton: Curious arts", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Acts 19:19), magical arts; jugglery practised by the Ephesian conjurers. Ephesus was noted for its wizard and the “Ephesian spells;” i.e., charms or scraps of parchment written over with certain form"}, {"id": "card_c_m_85ef0be27532", "title": "Easton: Curious arts shares a section with Easton: Coal", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Curious arts shares a section with Easton: Coal."}, {"id": "card_c_m_fdf69c30e72c", "title": "Easton: Curious arts shares a section with Easton: Adoni-zedec", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Curious arts shares a section with Easton: Adoni-zedec."}, {"id": "card_src_book_38067", "title": "A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments, Which are Well Explained and Warranted Genuine and may be Performed Easily, Safely, and at Little Expe", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments, Which are Well Explained and Warranted Genuine and may be Performed Easily, Safely, and at Little Expense., by Unknown. Su"}, {"id": "card_c_593b64563afa", "title": "Easton: Curious arts ↔ Easton: Coal", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_concept_a_d — a structural sibling link restored from 1.0's nesting (re-verified same section live). Connects the map so no card is left orphaned."}, {"id": "card_src_book_40309", "title": "The Art of Amusing Being a Collection of Graceful Arts, Merry Games, Odd Tricks, Curious Puzzles, and New Charades. Together with Suggestions for Private Theatricals, Tableaux, and", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Art of Amusing Being a Collection of Graceful Arts, Merry Games, Odd Tricks, Curious Puzzles, and New Charades. Together with Suggestions for Private Theatricals, Tableaux, and All Sorts of Parlor"}, {"id": "card_c_8819c1e4c2da", "title": "Easton: Curious arts cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 19:19 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_src_lex_g4021", "title": "G4021 — περίεργος (periergos): meddlesome/magic", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "περίεργος (periergos), Strong's G4021: meddlesome/magic. περίεργος , -ον __I. of persons ; __1. over careful. __2. curious, meddling, a busybody : 1Ti.5:13. __II. Of things ; __1. over-wrought. __2. s"}, {"id": "card_n_6be0c554f871", "title": "Easton: Fowler", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The arts of, referred to Ps. 91:3; 124:7; Prov. 6:5; Jer. 5:26; Hos. 9:8; Ezek. 17:20; Eccl. 9:12. Birds of all kinds abound in Palestine, and the capture of these for the table and for other uses for"}, {"id": "card_n_9cd847459194", "title": "Easton: Carve", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The arts of engraving and carving were much practised among the Jews. They were practised in connection with the construction of the tabernacle and the temple (Ex. 31:2, 5; 35:33; 1 Kings 6:18, 35; Ps"}, {"id": "card_n_90277a772ad1", "title": "Easton: Physician", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Asa, afflicted with some bodily malady, “sought not to the Lord but to the physicians” (2 Chr. 16:12). The “physicians” were those who “practised heathen arts of magic, disavowing recognized methods o"}, {"id": "card_n_098bfecbdf2c", "title": "Easton: Soothsayer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who pretends to prognosticate future events. Baalam is so called (Josh. 13:22; Heb. kosem, a “diviner,” as rendered 1 Sam. 6:2; rendered “prudent,” Isa. 3:2). In Isa. 2:6 and Micah 5:12 (Heb. yone"}, {"id": "card_n_18d0b29ebe2e", "title": "Easton: Girdle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. hagor, a girdle of any kind worn by soldiers (1 Sam. 18:4; 2 Sam. 20:8; 1 Kings 2:5; 2 Kings 3:21) or women (Isa. 3:24). (2.) Heb. ‘ezor, something “bound,” worn by prophets (2 Kings 1:8; Je"}, {"id": "card_n_96d9dee329be", "title": "Easton: Ephod", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Something girt, a sacred vestment worn originally by the high priest (Ex. 28:4), afterwards by the ordinary priest (1 Sam. 22:18), and characteristic of his office (1 Sam. 2:18, 28; 14:3). It was worn"}, {"id": "card_n_0150bf54726b", "title": "Easton: Enchantments", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The rendering of Hebrew latim_ or _lehatim, which means “something covered,” “muffled up;” secret arts, tricks (Ex. 7:11, 22; 8:7, 18), by which the Egyptian magicians imposed on the credulity of"}, {"id": "card_n_5284f333a082", "title": "Easton: High priest", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Aaron was the first who was solemnly set apart to this office (Ex. 29:7; 30:23; Lev. 8:12). He wore a peculiar dress, which on his death passed to his successor in office (Ex. 29:29, 30). Besides thos"}, {"id": "card_n_ca7c5314c056", "title": "Easton: Siloam, Tower of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned only Luke 13:4. The place here spoken of is the village now called Silwan, or Kefr Silwan, on the east of the valley of Kidron, and to the north-east of the pool. It stands on the west slope"}, {"id": "card_n_f85d77b013ad", "title": "Easton: Zidon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A fishery, a town on the Mediterranean coast, about 25 miles north of Tyre. It received its name from the “first-born” of Canaan, the grandson of Noah (Gen. 10:15, 19). It was the first home of the Ph"}, {"id": "card_n_6df852add6ba", "title": "Easton: Magic", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Jews seem early to have consulted the teraphim (q.v.) for oracular answers (Judg. 18:5, 6; Zech. 10:2). There is a remarkable illustration of this divining by teraphim in Ezek. 21:19-22. We read a"}, {"id": "card_n_f412f364f873", "title": "Easton: Child", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word has considerable latitude of meaning in Scripture. Thus Joseph is called a child at the time when he was probably about sixteen years of age (Gen. 37:3); and Benjamin is so called when he wa"}]}