{"query": "Easton: Jealousy, Waters of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_fee87fd78476", "title": "Easton: Jealousy, Waters of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Water which the suspected wife was required to drink, so that the result might prove her guilt or innocence (Num. 5:12-17, 27). We have no record of this form of trial having been actually resorted to"}, {"id": "card_c_m_fc98526bf8bf", "title": "Easton: Jealousy, Waters of shares a section with Easton: Legion", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Jealousy, Waters of shares a section with Easton: Legion."}, {"id": "card_c_4fef116514ab", "title": "Easton: Jealousy, Waters of ↔ Easton: Legion", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_concept_i_l — 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_n_67a10b6fda93", "title": "Easton: Deacon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Anglicized form of the Greek word diaconos, meaning a “runner,” “messenger,” “servant.” For a long period a feeling of mutual jealousy had existed between the “Hebrews,” or Jews proper, who spoke the "}, {"id": "card_n_233495145001", "title": "Easton: Conduit", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A water-course or channel (Job 38:25). The “conduit of the upper pool” (Isa. 7:3) was formed by Hezekiah for the purpose of conveying the waters from the upper pool in the valley of Gihon to the west "}, {"id": "card_n_ca2aede43330", "title": "Easton: Medeba", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Waters of quiet, an ancient Moabite town (Num. 21:30). It was assigned to the tribe of Reuben (Josh. 13:16). Here was fought the great battle in which Joab defeated the Ammonites and their allies (1 C"}, {"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_11462bbce2a6", "title": "Easton: Megiddo", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Place of troops, originally one of the royal cities of the Canaanites (Josh. 12:21), belonged to the tribe of Manasseh (Judg. 1:27), but does not seem to have been fully occupied by the Israelites til"}, {"id": "card_n_23ddfa0652b0", "title": "Easton: Acts of the Apostles", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The title now given to the fifth and last of the historical books of the New Testament. The author styles it a “treatise” (1:1). It was early called “The Acts,” “The Gospel of the Holy Ghost,” and “Th"}, {"id": "card_n_4d9d0f7086f4", "title": "Easton: Firmament", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From the Vulgate firmamentum, which is used as the translation of the Hebrew raki’a. This word means simply “expansion.” It denotes the space or expanse like an arch appearing immediately above us. Th"}, {"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_25e270b1d029", "title": "Easton: Amorites", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Highlanders, or hillmen, the name given to the descendants of one of the sons of Canaan (Gen. 14:7), called Amurra or Amurri in the Assyrian and Egyptian inscriptions. On the early Babylonian monument"}, {"id": "card_n_2ca9d4b75757", "title": "Easton: Ur", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Light, or the moon city, a city “of the Chaldees,” the birthplace of Haran (Gen. 11:28, 31), the largest city of Shinar or northern Chaldea, and the principal commercial centre of the country as well "}, {"id": "card_n_3592f0f67c5f", "title": "Easton: Gihon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A stream. (1.) One of the four rivers of Eden (Gen. 2:13). It has been identified with the Nile. Others regard it as the Oxus, or the Araxes, or the Ganges. But as, according to the sacred narrative, "}, {"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_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"}, {"id": "card_n_a7c3c41d811c", "title": "Easton: Abel-beth-maachah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Meadow of the house of Maachah, a city in the north of Palestine, in the neighbourhood of Dan and Ijon, in the tribe of Naphtali. It was a place of considerable strength and importance. It is called a"}, {"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_0e26c67f02b1", "title": "Easton: Rabbah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Or Rab’bath, great. (1.) “Rabbath of the children of Ammon,” the chief city of the Ammonites, among the eastern hills, some 20 miles east of the Jordan, on the southern of the two streams which united"}, {"id": "card_n_06be62a24478", "title": "Easton: Elah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Terebinth or oak. (1.) Valley of, where the Israelites were encamped when David killed Goliath (1 Sam. 17:2, 19). It was near Shochoh of Judah and Azekah (17:1). It is the modern Wady es-Sunt, i.e., “"}]}