{"query": "Easton: Babel, tower of", "count": 20, "results": [{"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"}, {"id": "card_src_word_tower_of_babel", "title": "tower of babel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "tower of babel: (noun) (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no l"}, {"id": "card_timeline_t004", "title": "The Tower of Babel (no fixed year)", "shelf": "scripture", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Tower of Babel — Old Testament, Creation and the Patriarchs. Date: no fixed year. Scripture: Genesis 11:1-9. Placed after the Flood narratively; Genesis gives no year."}, {"id": "card_src_word_babel", "title": "babel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "babel: (noun) (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer und"}, {"id": "card_n_de13aa6f7c0b", "title": "Easton: Tongues, Confusion of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "At Babel, the cause of the early separation of mankind and their division into nations. The descendants of Noah built a tower to prevent their dispersion; but God “confounded their language” (Gen. 11:"}, {"id": "card_c_02498d497be9", "title": "Proto-Indo-European — the reconstructed moth ↔ Easton: Babel, tower of", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "It is the closest thing linguistics has to a common ancestor recovered from its scattered children — and some hear in the scattering an echo of Babel. RESONANCE; signpost, never the Gate.  — a concord"}, {"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-"}, {"id": "card_n_348d301c5ee0", "title": "Easton: Bricks", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The making of, formed the chief labour of the Israelites in Egypt (Ex. 1:13, 14). Those found among the ruins of Babylon and Nineveh are about a foot square and four inches thick. They were usually dr"}, {"id": "card_n_7c2b204a8d40", "title": "Easton: Edar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Tower of the flock, a tower between Bethlehem and Hebron, near which Jacob first halted after leaving Bethlehem (Gen. 35:21). In Micah 4:8 the word is rendered “tower of the flock” (marg., “Edar”), an"}, {"id": "card_n_ca7c5314c056", "title": "Easton: Siloam, Tower of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned only Luke 13:4. The place here spoken of is the village now called Silwan, or Kefr Silwan, on the east of the valley of Kidron, and to the north-east of the pool. It stands on the west slope"}, {"id": "card_c_6b6186e7ac22", "title": "Easton: Babel, tower of references Armenia", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Armenia (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_c_a7dcbcb8381a", "title": "Easton: Babel, tower 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."}, {"id": "card_c_749bf6f10e2a", "title": "Easton: Babel, tower of references Euphrates", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Euphrates (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_c_52fcfaa02811", "title": "Easton: Babel, tower of references Jerusalem", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jerusalem (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_c_76f528aaeae4", "title": "Easton: Babel, tower of references Nebuchadnezzar", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Nebuchadnezzar (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_n_3cc8f0933909", "title": "Easton: Dor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Dwelling, the Dora of the Romans, an ancient royal city of the Canaanites (Josh. 11:1, 2; 12:23). It was the most southern settlement of the Phoenicians on the coast of Syria. The original inhabitants"}, {"id": "card_n_8c1e15ec7173", "title": "Easton: Magdala", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A tower, a town in Galilee, mentioned only in Matt. 15:39. In the parallel passage in Mark 8:10 this place is called Dalmanutha. It was the birthplace of Mary called the Magdalen, or Mary Magdalene. I"}, {"id": "card_n_7179909561dd", "title": "Easton: Sheshach", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Jer. 25:26), supposed to be equivalent to Babel (Babylon), according to a secret (cabalistic) mode of writing among the Jews of unknown antiquity, which consisted in substituting the last letter of t"}, {"id": "card_n_aa41e36b297b", "title": "Easton: Castle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A military fortress (1 Chr. 11:7), also probably a kind of tower used by the priests for making known anything discovered at a distance (1 Chr. 6:54). Castles are also mentioned (Gen. 25:16) as a kind"}, {"id": "card_n_a3b640eccadc", "title": "Easton: Migdol", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Tower. (1.) A strongly-fortified place 12 miles from Pelusium, in the north of Egypt (Jer. 44:1; 46:14). This word is rendered “tower” in Ezek. 29:10, but the margin correctly retains the name Migdol,"}]}