{"query": "Easton: Simeon, The tribe of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_01852b1c1d1c", "title": "Easton: Simeon, The tribe of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was “divided and scattered” according to the prediction in Gen. 49:5-7. They gradually dwindled in number, and sank into a position of insignificance among the other tribes. They decreased in the wild"}, {"id": "card_n_3f0a9102027b", "title": "Easton: Judah, Tribe of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Judah and his three surviving sons went down with Jacob into Egypt (Gen. 46:12; Ex. 1:2). At the time of the Exodus, when we meet with the family of Judah again, they have increased to the number of 7"}, {"id": "card_n_32cb09b0f521", "title": "Easton: Reuben, Tribe of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "At the Exodus numbered 46,500 male adults, from twenty years old and upwards (Num. 1:20, 21), and at the close of the wilderness wanderings they numbered only 43,730 (26:7). This tribe united with tha"}, {"id": "card_c_m_afef5f697842", "title": "Easton: Simeon, The tribe of shares a section with Easton: Tappuah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Simeon, The tribe of shares a section with Easton: Tappuah."}, {"id": "card_c_9949ab5c8d05", "title": "Easton: Reuben, Tribe of references Simeon", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Simeon (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_d18db80a12d4", "title": "Easton: Judah, Tribe of references Simeon", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Simeon (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_src_lex_h8095", "title": "H8095 — שִׁמְעוֹן (shim.on): Simeon", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "שִׁמְעוֹן (shim.on), Strong's H8095: Simeon. A man of the tribe of Simeon living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.29.33; son of: Israel (H3478) and Leah (H3812); brother of: Reube"}, {"id": "card_n_69ff6a6c4b75", "title": "Easton: Asher", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Happy, Jacob’s eigth son; his mother was Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid (Gen. 30:13). Of the tribe founded by him nothing is recorded beyond its holding a place in the list of the tribes (35:26; 46:17; Ex. 1"}, {"id": "card_n_83371763e2c1", "title": "Easton: Gad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fortune; luck. (1.) Jacob’s seventh son, by Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid, and the brother of Asher (Gen. 30:11-13; 46:16, 18). In the Authorized Version of 30:11 the words, “A troop cometh: and she called,"}, {"id": "card_src_lex_h8099", "title": "H8099 — שִׁמְעֹנִי (shim.o.ni): Simeon", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "שִׁמְעֹנִי (shim.o.ni), Strong's H8099: Simeon. Someone from the tribe of Simeon living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.29.33; son of: Israel (H3478) and Leah (H3812); brother of"}, {"id": "card_n_505139b1b9ab", "title": "Easton: Naphtali, Tribe of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On this tribe Jacob pronounced the patriarchal blessing, “Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words” (Gen. 49:21). It was intended thus to set forth under poetic imagery the future characte"}, {"id": "card_n_c42ad4111361", "title": "Easton: Ephraim, The tribe of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Took precedence over that of Manasseh by virtue of Jacob’s blessing (Gen. 41:52; 48:1). The descendants of Joseph formed two of the tribes of Israel, whereas each of the other sons of Jacob was the fo"}, {"id": "card_n_9aa445f45094", "title": "Easton: Gamaliel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Reward of God. (1.) A chief of the tribe of Manasseh at the census at Sinai (Num. 1:10; 2:20; 7:54, 59). (2.) The son of rabbi Simeon, and grandson of the famous rabbi Hillel. He was a Pharisse, and t"}, {"id": "card_n_69941284339e", "title": "Easton: Beersheba", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Well of the oath, or well of seven, a well dug by Abraham, and so named because he and Abimelech here entered into a compact (Gen. 21:31). On re-opening it, Isaac gave it the same name (Gen. 26:31-33)"}, {"id": "card_n_9db1d28a4146", "title": "Easton: Etam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Eyrie. (1.) A village of the tribe of Simeon (1 Chr. 4:32). Into some cleft (“top,” A.V.,; R.V., “cleft”) of a rock here Samson retired after his slaughter of the Philistines (Judg. 15:8, 11). It was "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_1_chronicles_4_24", "title": "Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 4:24", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 1 Chronicles 4:24 — We have here some of the genealogies of the tribe of Simeon (though it was not a tribe of great note), especially the princes of that tribe, Ch1 4:38. Of this tribe it is said t"}, {"id": "card_n_8950a486ed0b", "title": "Easton: Juda", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The patriarch Judah, son of Jacob (Luke 3:33; Heb. 7:14). In Luke 1:39; Heb. 7:14; Rev. 5:5; 7:5, the word refers to the tribe of Judah. (2.) The father of Simeon in Christ’s maternal ancestry (L"}, {"id": "card_n_45636819ef17", "title": "Easton: Levite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A descendant of the tribe of Levi (Ex. 6:25; Lev. 25:32; Num. 35:2; Josh. 21:3, 41). This name is, however, generally used as the title of that portion of the tribe which was set apart for the subordi"}, {"id": "card_n_229b0241062e", "title": "Easton: Judah, Kingdom of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When the disruption took place at Shechem, at first only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David. But very soon after the tribe of Benjamin joined the tribe of Judah, and Jerusalem became the c"}, {"id": "card_n_c7045cda2002", "title": "Easton: Jabesh-Gilead", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A town on the east of Jordan, on the top of one of the green hills of Gilead, within the limits of the half tribe of Manasseh, and in full view of Beth-shan. It is first mentioned in connection with t"}]}