{"query": "Easton: Desert", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f78f28f15626", "title": "Easton: Desert", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. midbar, “pasture-ground;” an open tract for pasturage; a common (Joel 2:22). The “backside of the desert” (Ex. 3:1) is the west of the desert, the region behind a man, as the east is the reg"}, {"id": "card_c_1d1742b600da", "title": "Easton: Eshcol references Desert", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Desert (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_c_5925b929a576", "title": "Easton: Arabia references Desert", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Desert (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_c_m_fb404f5f24ee", "title": "Easton: Cinnereth shares a section with Easton: Desert", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Cinnereth shares a section with Easton: Desert."}, {"id": "card_c_m_543eff8d1a61", "title": "Matthew cites Easton: Desert", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Matthew cites Easton: Desert."}, {"id": "card_n_ee555d5c8204", "title": "Easton: Meribah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Quarrel or strife. (1.) One of the names given by Moses to the fountain in the desert of Sin, near Rephidim, which issued from the rock in Horeb, which he smote by the divine command, “because of the "}, {"id": "card_n_39cb83a05ed4", "title": "Easton: Tema", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "South; desert, one of the sons of Ishmael, and father of a tribe so called (Gen. 25:15; 1 Chr. 1:30; Job 6:19; Isa. 21:14; Jer. 25:23) which settled at a place to which he gave his name, some 250 mile"}, {"id": "card_n_7fba6f153494", "title": "Easton: Shur", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An enclosure; a wall, a part, probably, of the Arabian desert, on the north-eastern border of Egypt, giving its name to a wilderness extending from Egypt toward Philistia (Gen. 16:7; 20:1; 25:18; Ex. "}, {"id": "card_n_a57178e5d44f", "title": "Easton: Paran", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Abounding in foliage, or abounding in caverns, (Gen. 21:21), a desert tract forming the north-eastern division of the peninsula of Sinai, lying between the ‘Arabah on the east and the wilderness of Sh"}, {"id": "card_n_77e9c7a12acc", "title": "Easton: Kenites", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Smiths, the name of a tribe inhabiting the desert lying between southern Palestine and the mountains of Sinai. Jethro was of this tribe (Judg. 1:16). He is called a “Midianite” (Num. 10:29), and hence"}, {"id": "card_n_a3f4ed09ea98", "title": "Easton: Fountain", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ‘ain; i.e., “eye” of the water desert), a natural source of living water. Palestine was a “land of brooks of water, of fountains, and depths that spring out of valleys and hills” (Deut. 8:7; 11:"}, {"id": "card_n_c1380e201728", "title": "Easton: Kadesh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Holy, or Kadesh-Barnea, sacred desert of wandering, a place on the south-eastern border of Palestine, about 165 miles from Horeb. It lay in the “wilderness” or “desert of Zin” (Gen. 14:7; Num. 13:3-26"}, {"id": "card_n_35577e29e930", "title": "Easton: Ishmael", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God hears. (1.) Abraham’s eldest son, by Hagar the concubine (Gen. 16:15; 17:23). He was born at Mamre, when Abraham was eighty-six years of age, eleven years after his arrival in Canaan (16:3; 21:5)."}, {"id": "card_n_554cd3b48cc5", "title": "Easton: Juniper", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. rothem), called by the Arabs retem, and known as Spanish broom; ranked under the genus genista. It is a desert shrub, and abounds in many parts of Palestine. In the account of his journey from A"}, {"id": "card_n_7c0f21e1e0c7", "title": "Easton: Jobab", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Dweller in the desert. (1.) One of the sons of Joktan, and founder of an Arabian tribe (Gen. 10:29). (2.) King of Edom, succeeded Bela (Gen. 36:33, 34). (3.) A Canaanitish king (Josh. 11:1) who joined"}, {"id": "card_n_d6d5667b3946", "title": "Easton: Zin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A low palm-tree, the south-eastern corner of the desert et-Tih, the wilderness of Paran, between the Gulf of Akabah and the head of the Wady Guraiyeh (Num. 13:21). To be distinguished from the wildern"}, {"id": "card_n_533eea26d3b5", "title": "Easton: Elparan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Oak of Paran, a place on the edge of the wilderness bordering the territory of the Horites (Gen. 14:6). This was the farthest point to which Chedorlaomer’s expedition extended. It is identified with t"}, {"id": "card_n_93723810b32c", "title": "Easton: Karkor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Foundation, a place in the open desert wastes on the east of Jordan (Judg. 8:10), not far beyond Succoth and Penuel, to the south. Here Gideon overtook and routed a fugitive band of Midianites under Z"}, {"id": "card_n_204eda054dc1", "title": "Easton: Jeruel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Founded by God, a “desert” on the ascent from the valley of the Dead Sea towards Jerusalem. It lay beyond the wilderness of Tekoa, in the direction of Engedi (2 Chr. 20:16, 20). It corresponds with th"}, {"id": "card_n_25f4ba90ed0b", "title": "Easton: Shammah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Desert. (1.) One of the “dukes” of Edom (Gen. 36:13, 17). (2.) One of the sons of Jesse (1 Sam. 16:9). He is also called Shimeah (2 Sam. 13:3) and Shimma (1 Chr. 2:13). (3.) One of David’s three might"}]}