{"query": "Easton: Zion", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_8542461789d0", "title": "Easton: Zion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sunny; height, one of the eminences on which Jerusalem was built. It was surrounded on all sides, except the north, by deep valleys, that of the Tyropoeon (q.v.) separating it from Moriah (q.v.), whic"}, {"id": "card_c_m_64f9976ab688", "title": "Easton: Zion shares a section with Easton: Widows", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Zion shares a section with Easton: Widows."}, {"id": "card_c_m_efe1ff5ed760", "title": "Easton: Vaticanus, Codex shares a section with Easton: Zion", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Vaticanus, Codex shares a section with Easton: Zion."}, {"id": "card_n_ad13fee569a5", "title": "Easton: Tyropoeon Valley", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(i.e., “Valley of the Cheesemongers”), the name given by Josephus the historian to the valley or rugged ravine which in ancient times separated Mount Moriah from Mount Zion. This valley, now filled up"}, {"id": "card_n_b3d05fd094d6", "title": "Easton: David, City of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) David took from the Jebusites the fortress of Mount Zion. He “dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David” (1 Chr. 11:7). This was the name afterwards given to the castle and royal palace "}, {"id": "card_n_b626a30065df", "title": "Easton: Daughter", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word, besides its natural and proper sense, is used to designate, (1.) A niece or any female descendant (Gen. 20:12; 24:48; 28:6). (2.) Women as natives of a place, or as professing the religion "}, {"id": "card_c_9b2a0ef56982", "title": "Easton: Zion ↔ Easton: Vaticanus, Codex", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_concept_u_z — 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_552c0ef6ac76", "title": "Easton: Baca, Valley of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ps. 84:6; R.V., “valley of weeping,” marg., “or balsam trees”), probably a valley in some part of Palestine, or generally some one of the valleys through which pilgrims had to pass on their way to th"}, {"id": "card_n_8ad7aa425726", "title": "Easton: Jebus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Trodden hard, or fastness, or “the waterless hill”, the name of the Canaanitish city which stood on Mount Zion (Josh. 15:8; 18:16, 28). It is identified with Jerusalem (q.v.) in Judg. 19:10, and with "}, {"id": "card_n_2f7565d1203f", "title": "Easton: Arch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An architectural term found only in Ezek. 40:16, 21, 22, 26, 29. There is no absolute proof that the Israelites employed arches in their buildings. The arch was employed in the building of the pyramid"}, {"id": "card_n_9a92b12fb7b4", "title": "Easton: College", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. mishneh (2 Kings 22:14; 2 Chr. 34:22), rendered in Revised Version “second quarter”, the residence of the prophetess Huldah. The Authorized Version followed the Jewish commentators, who, followin"}, {"id": "card_n_281d4fb41429", "title": "Easton: Market-place", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Any place of public resort, and hence a public place or broad street (Matt. 11:16; 20:3), as well as a forum or market-place proper, where goods were exposed for sale, and where public assemblies and "}, {"id": "card_n_e5a2dbc040bc", "title": "Easton: Congregation, mount of the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 14:13), has been supposed to refer to the place where God promised to meet with his people (Ex. 25:22; 29:42, 43) i.e., the mount of the Divine presence, Mount Zion. But here the king of Babylon"}, {"id": "card_n_390cebdcd5c4", "title": "Easton: Moriah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The chosen of Jehovah. Some contend that Mount Gerizim is meant, but most probably we are to regard this as one of the hills of Jerusalem. Here Solomon’s temple was built, on the spot that had been th"}, {"id": "card_n_6abad17329c2", "title": "Easton: Joab", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah is his father. (1.) One of the three sons of Zeruiah, David’s sister, and “captain of the host” during the whole of David’s reign (2 Sam. 2:13; 10:7; 11:1; 1 Kings 11:15). His father’s name is"}, {"id": "card_n_7babedd25283", "title": "Easton: Jerusalem", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called also Salem, Ariel, Jebus, the “city of God,” the “holy city;” by the modern Arabs el-Khuds, meaning “the holy;” once “the city of Judah” (2 Chr. 25:28). This name is in the original in the dual"}, {"id": "card_n_fa1a942e187a", "title": "Easton: Bethesda", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "House of mercy, a reservoir (Gr. kolumbethra, “a swimming bath”) with five porches, close to the sheep-gate or market (Neh. 3:1; John 5:2). Eusebius the historian (A.D. 330) calls it “the sheep-pool.”"}, {"id": "card_n_d82725fd8bf4", "title": "Easton: Tophet", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Topheth, from Heb. toph “a drum,” because the cries of children here sacrificed by the priests of Moloch were drowned by the noise of such an instrument; or from taph or toph, meaning “to burn,” and "}, {"id": "card_n_e06f3c060113", "title": "Easton: Hinnom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A deep, narrow ravine separating Mount Zion from the so-called “Hill of Evil Counsel.” It took its name from “some ancient hero, the son of Hinnom.” It is first mentioned in Josh. 15:8. It had been th"}, {"id": "card_n_5224093cb47e", "title": "Easton: Siloam, Pool of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sent or sending. Here a notable miracle was wrought by our Lord in giving sight to the blind (John 9:7-11). It has been identified with the Birket Silwan in the lower Tyropoeon valley, to the south-ea"}]}