{"query": "Easton: Oak", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_86d875e8921d", "title": "Easton: Oak", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are six Hebrew words rendered “oak.” (1.) ‘El occurs only in the word El-paran (Gen. 14:6). The LXX. renders by “terebinth.” In the plural form this word occurs in Isa. 1:29; 57:5 (A.V. marg. an"}, {"id": "card_c_m_dde8a1b5113b", "title": "Easton: Oak shares a section with Easton: Naked", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Oak shares a section with Easton: Naked."}, {"id": "card_c_m_1cf1dbc25572", "title": "Easton: Oak shares a section with Easton: Measure", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Oak shares a section with Easton: Measure."}, {"id": "card_n_b1da7ad6242d", "title": "Easton: Meonenim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Judg. 9:37; A.V., “the plain of Meonenim;” R.V., “the oak of Meonenim”) means properly “soothsayers” or “sorcerers,” “wizards” (Deut. 18:10, 14; 2 Kings 21:6; Micah 5:12). This may be the oak at Shec"}, {"id": "card_n_f0b31fe3cfed", "title": "Easton: Mamre", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Manliness. (1.) An Amoritish chief in alliance with Abraham (Gen. 14:13, 24). (2.) The name of the place in the neighbourhood of Hebron (q.v.) where Abraham dwelt (Gen. 23:17, 19; 35:27); called also "}, {"id": "card_n_a95e2c0bea0c", "title": "Easton: Allon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Oak. (1.) The expression in the Authorized Version of Josh. 19:33, “from Allon to Zaanannim,” is more correctly rendered in the Revised Version, “from the oak in Zaanannim.” The word denotes some rema"}, {"id": "card_n_24ac6d8f5a49", "title": "Easton: Zaanaim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Wanderings; the unloading of tents, so called probably from the fact of nomads in tents encamping amid the cities and villages of that region, a place in the north-west of Lake Merom, near Kedesh, in "}, {"id": "card_n_8ccaeea1a941", "title": "Easton: Shechem", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Shoulder. (1.) The son of Hamor the Hivite (Gen. 33:19; 34). (2.) A descendant of Manasseh (Num. 26:31; Josh. 17:2). (3.) A city in Samaria (Gen. 33:18), called also Sichem (12:6), Sychem (Acts 7:16)."}, {"id": "card_n_28f70ace7de8", "title": "Easton: Elon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Oak. (1.) A city of Dan (Josh. 19:43). (2.) A Hittite, father of Bashemath, Esau’s wife (Gen. 26:34). (3.) One of the sons of Zebulun (Gen. 46:14). (4.) The eleventh of the Hebrew judges. He held offi"}, {"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_883e1b21c795", "title": "Easton: Elm", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hos. 4:13; rendered “terebinth” in the Revised Version. It is the Pistacia terebinthus of Linn., a tree common in Palestine, long-lived, and therefore often employed for landmarks and in designating p"}, {"id": "card_n_fe3357b6316b", "title": "Easton: Allon-bachuth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Oak of weeping, a tree near Bethel, at the spot where Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, was buried (Gen. 35:8). Large trees, from their rarity in the plains of Palestine, were frequently designated as landmar"}, {"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_b46987c2db47", "title": "Easton: Ellasar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The oak or heap of Assyria, a territory in Asia of which Arioch was king (Gen. 14:1, 9). It is supposed that the old Chaldean town of Larsa was the metropolis of this kingdom, situated nearly half-way"}, {"id": "card_n_612878421d69", "title": "Easton: Pine tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. tidhar, mentioned along with the fir-tree in Isa. 41:19; 60:13. This is probably the cypress; or it may be the stone-pine, which is common on the northern slopes of Lebanon. Some suppose that the"}, {"id": "card_n_2d5acfac2f70", "title": "Easton: Leaf", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of a tree. The olive-leaf mentioned Gen. 8:11. The barren fig-tree had nothing but leaves (Matt. 21:19; Mark 11:13). The oak-leaf is mentioned Isa. 1:30; 6:13. There are numerous allusions to leaves, "}, {"id": "card_n_ba1f3a9dabf9", "title": "Easton: Moreh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An archer, teacher; fruitful. (1.) A Canaanite probably who inhabited the district south of Shechem, between Mounts Ebal and Gerizim, and gave his name to the “plain” there (Gen. 12:6). Here at this “"}, {"id": "card_n_012f4b3ae0cf", "title": "Easton: Ox goad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned only in Judg. 3:31, the weapon with which Shamgar (q.v.) slew six hundred Philistines. “The ploughman still carries his goad, a weapon apparently more fitted for the hand of the soldier than"}, {"id": "card_n_65f10f7bb30e", "title": "Easton: Cypress", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. tirzah, “hardness”), mentioned only in Isa. 44:14 (R.V., “holm tree”). The oldest Latin version translates this word by ilex, i.e., the evergreen oak, which may possibly have been the tree inten"}, {"id": "card_n_833764124fb0", "title": "Easton: Scarlet", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This dye was obtained by the Egyptians from the shell-fish Carthamus tinctorius; and by the Hebrews from the Coccus ilicis, an insect which infests oak trees, called kermes by the Arabians. This colou"}]}