{"query": "Easton: Shinar, The Land of", "count": 15, "results": [{"id": "card_n_89c3ae8ae0bf", "title": "Easton: Shinar, The Land of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "LXX. and Vulgate “Senaar;” in the inscriptions, “Shumir;” probably identical with Babylonia or Southern Mesopotamia, extending almost to the Persian Gulf. Here the tower of Babel was built (Gen. 11:1-", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_lex_h8152", "title": "H8152 — שִׁנְעָר (shin.ar): Shinar", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "שִׁנְעָר (shin.ar), Strong's H8152: Shinar. § Shinar = \"country of two rivers\" the ancient name for the territory later known as Babylonia or Chaldea", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "STEPBible TBESH/TBESG — Extended Strong's lexicon (CC-BY, Tyndale House)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_c_1a74a5b07a4e", "title": "Easton: Shinar, The Land of references Mesopotamia", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Mesopotamia (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place.", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Name mention (Easton's Bible Dictionary, PD)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_c_96b1768c6f08", "title": "Easton: Shinar, The Land of references Chaldea", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Chaldea (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place.", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Name mention (Easton's Bible Dictionary, PD)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_c_aa25ec9cb204", "title": "Easton: Shinar, The Land of references Babylon", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Babylon (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place.", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Name mention (Easton's Bible Dictionary, PD)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_enc_easton_shinar-the-land-of", "title": "Shinar, The Land of", "shelf": "encyclopedia", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "", "authority_tier": "", "source": "", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_isbe_shinar", "title": "ISBE: Shinar", "shelf": "encyclopedia", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "", "authority_tier": "", "source": "", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_name_hitchcock_shinar", "title": "Shinar — the name means", "shelf": "topical", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "", "authority_tier": "", "source": "", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_b9c158f9776a", "title": "Easton: Nimrod", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Firm, a descendant of Cush, the son of Ham. He was the first who claimed to be a “mighty one in the earth.” Babel was the beginning of his kingdom, which he gradually enlarged (Gen. 10:8-10). The “lan", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_bd877f031a70", "title": "Easton: Babel, tower of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to the tower which the primitive fathers of our race built in the land of Shinar after the Deluge (Gen. 11:1-9). Their object in building this tower was probably that it might be seen a", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_f88a2c64e5b0", "title": "Easton: Asshur", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Second son of Shem (Gen. 10:22; 1 Chr. 1:17). He went from the land of Shinar and built Nineveh, etc. (Gen. 10:11, 12). He probably gave his name to Assyria, which is the usual translation of the word", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_55817537d555", "title": "Easton: Accad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The high land or mountains, a city in the land of Shinar. It has been identified with the mounds of Akker Kuf, some 50 miles to the north of Babylon; but this is doubtful. It was one of the cities of ", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_1d4a3d2b0206", "title": "Easton: Chedorlaomer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(= Khudur-Lagamar of the inscriptions), king of Elam. Many centuries before the age of Abraham, Canaan and even the Sinaitic peninsula had been conquered by Babylonian kings, and in the time of Abraha", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_d02fc584c4c4", "title": "Easton: Eden", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Delight. (1.) The garden in which our first parents dewlt (Gen. 2:8-17). No geographical question has been so much discussed as that bearing on its site. It has been placed in Armenia, in the region w", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_321b6f6055ba", "title": "Easton: Babylon, kingdom of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called “the land of the Chaldeans” (Jer. 24:5; Ezek, 12:13), was an extensive province in Central Asia along the valley of the Tigris from the Persian Gulf northward for some 300 miles. It was famed f", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}]}