{"query": "Easton: Hebrew language", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_4150298825ee", "title": "Easton: Hebrew language", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The language of the Hebrew nation, and that in which the Old Testament is written, with the exception of a few portions in Chaldee. In the Old Testament it is only spoken of as “Jewish” (2 Kings 18:26"}, {"id": "card_n_8032ca300afc", "title": "Easton: Chaldee language", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Employed by the sacred writers in certain portions of the Old Testament, viz., Dan. 2:4-7, 28; Ezra 4:8-6:18; 7:12-26; Gen. 31:46; Jer. 10:11. It is the Aramaic dialect, as it is sometimes called, as "}, {"id": "card_n_600ccc86ead6", "title": "Easton: Canaan, the language of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned in Isa. 19:18, denotes the language spoken by the Jews resident in Palestine. The language of the Canaanites and of the Hebrews was substantially the same. This is seen from the fragments of"}, {"id": "card_c_m_5758608fa62b", "title": "Easton: Firebrand shares a section with Easton: Hebrew language", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Firebrand shares a section with Easton: Hebrew language."}, {"id": "card_c_m_b1691775ded3", "title": "Easton: Hebrew language cites Isaiah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Hebrew language cites Isaiah."}, {"id": "card_c_3943fcc7a4fd", "title": "Easton: Hebrew language ↔ Easton: Chaldee language", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both cite 2kin 18:26 — a shared-scripture cross-reference computed in 1.0 and re-verified live in both cards."}, {"id": "card_n_683b72cdbc78", "title": "Easton: Poetry", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Has been well defined as “the measured language of emotion.” Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man’s relation to God. “Guilt, condemnation, punishment, pardon, redempti"}, {"id": "card_c_94c417e4ece3", "title": "Easton: Firebrand ↔ Easton: Hebrew language", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_concept_e_h — 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_14cbb577e31e", "title": "Easton: Moabite Stone", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A basalt stone, bearing an inscription by King Mesha, which was discovered at Dibon by Klein, a German missionary at Jerusalem, in 1868. It was 3 1/2 feet high and 2 in breadth and in thickness, round"}, {"id": "card_n_2e6ce5fca91a", "title": "Easton: Lamentations, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called in the Hebrew canon ’Ekhah, meaning “How,” being the formula for the commencement of a song of wailing. It is the first word of the book (see 2 Sam. 1:19-27). The LXX. adopted the name rendered"}, {"id": "card_n_df9c7f8e97ad", "title": "Easton: Rabshakeh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Chief of the princes, the name given to the chief cup-bearer or the vizier of the Assyrian court; one of Sennacherib’s messengers to Hezekiah. See the speech he delivered, in the Hebrew language, in t"}, {"id": "card_c_78aaf28a5796", "title": "Easton: Hebrew language ↔ Easton: Syriac", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both cite 2kin 18:26 — a shared-scripture cross-reference computed in 1.0 and re-verified live in both cards."}, {"id": "card_n_0150bf54726b", "title": "Easton: Enchantments", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The rendering of Hebrew latim_ or _lehatim, which means “something covered,” “muffled up;” secret arts, tricks (Ex. 7:11, 22; 8:7, 18), by which the Egyptian magicians imposed on the credulity of"}, {"id": "card_n_ec0c50ab4614", "title": "Easton: Wormwood", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. la’anah, the Artemisia absinthium of botanists. It is noted for its intense bitterness (Deut. 29:18; Prov. 5:4; Jer. 9:15; Amos 5:7). It is a type of bitterness, affliction, remorse, punitive suf"}, {"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_e7c5f7e1f5f0", "title": "Easton: Version", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A translation of the holy Scriptures. This word is not found in the Bible, nevertheless, as frequent references are made in this work to various ancient as well as modern versions, it is fitting that "}, {"id": "card_n_addb6bb817e8", "title": "Easton: Proverbs, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A collection of moral and philosophical maxims of a wide range of subjects presented in a poetic form. This book sets forth the “philosophy of practical life. It is the sign to us that the Bible does "}, {"id": "card_n_f20ec40cc2e8", "title": "Easton: By-word", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hebrew millah (Job 30:9), a word or speech, and hence object of talk; Hebrew mashal (Ps. 44:14), a proverb or parable. When it denotes a sharp word of derision, as in Deut. 28:37, 1 Kings 9:7, 2 Chr. "}, {"id": "card_src_word_hebrew_alphabet", "title": "hebrew alphabet", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "hebrew alphabet: (noun) a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino) — syn: Hebraic alphabet, Hebrew script"}]}