{"query": "Easton: Baca, Valley of", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_10a91c5a7f9a", "title": "Easton: Valley", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. bik’ah, a “cleft” of the mountains (Deut. 8:7; 11:11; Ps. 104:8; Isa. 41:18); also a low plain bounded by mountains, as the plain of Lebanon at the foot of Hermon around the sources of the J"}, {"id": "card_src_lex_h1056", "title": "H1056 — בָּכָא (ba.kah): (Tophet of) Baca", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "בָּכָא (ba.kah), Strong's H1056: (Tophet of) Baca. Baca = \"weeping\" a valley in Palestine Combined with to.phet (תֹּ֫פֶת \"Topheth\" H8612)"}, {"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_06be62a24478", "title": "Easton: Elah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Terebinth or oak. (1.) Valley of, where the Israelites were encamped when David killed Goliath (1 Sam. 17:2, 19). It was near Shochoh of Judah and Azekah (17:1). It is the modern Wady es-Sunt, i.e., “"}, {"id": "card_n_58db624a34cd", "title": "Easton: Jehoshaphat, Valley of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned in Scripture only in Joel 3:2, 12. This is the name given in modern times to the valley between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives, and the Kidron flows through it. Here Jehoshaphat overthrew"}, {"id": "card_n_eaba1a8b2918", "title": "Easton: Achor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Trouble, a valley near Jericho, so called in consequence of the trouble which the sin of Achan caused Israel (Josh. 7:24, 26). The expression “valley of Achor” probably became proverbial for that whic"}, {"id": "card_n_0b9a1ec88036", "title": "Easton: Mount of the valley", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Josh. 13:19), a district in the east of Jordan, in the territory of Reuben. The “valley” here was probably the Ghor or valley of the Jordan, and hence the “mount” would be the hilly region in the nor"}, {"id": "card_c_c631bf4b5306", "title": "Easton: Baca, Valley of references Jehovah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jehovah (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_63bdfd4d41f0", "title": "Easton: Baca, Valley of references Palestine", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Palestine (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_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_fe7db402704e", "title": "Easton: Dale, the king’s", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name of a valley, the alternative for “the valley of Shaveh” (q.v.), near the Dead Sea, where the king of Sodom met Abraham (Gen. 14:17). Some have identified it with the southern part of the vall"}, {"id": "card_n_19cae5671feb", "title": "Easton: Rephaim, Valley of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Josh. 15:8; 18:16, R.V.). When David became king over all Israel, the Philistines, judging that he would now become their uncompromising enemy, made a sudden attack upon Hebron, compelling David to r"}, {"id": "card_n_8fe39337e3b8", "title": "Easton: Michmash", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Something hidden, a town of Benjamin (Ezra 2:27), east of Bethel and south of Migron, on the road to Jerusalem (Isa. 10:28). It lay on the line of march of an invading army from the north, on the nort"}, {"id": "card_n_4e442881b096", "title": "Easton: Ajalon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "And Aij’alon, place of deer. (1.) A town and valley originally assigned to the tribe of Dan, from which, however, they could not drive the Amorites (Judg. 1:35). It was one of the Levitical cities giv"}, {"id": "card_n_aa37a2dcb7e5", "title": "Easton: Jezreel, Valley of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lying on the northern side of the city, between the ridges of Gilboa and Moreh, an offshoot of Esdraelon, running east to the Jordan (Josh. 17:16; Judg. 6:33; Hos. 1:5). It was the scene of the signal"}, {"id": "card_n_872b89e55a65", "title": "Easton: Lebanon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "White, “the white mountain of Syria,” is the loftiest and most celebrated mountain range in Syria. It is a branch running southward from the Caucasus, and at its lower end forking into two parallel ra"}, {"id": "card_n_bfd4a1bca8d5", "title": "Easton: Shallecheth, The gate of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I.e., “the gate of casting out,” hence supposed to be the refuse gate; one of the gates of the house of the Lord, “by the causeway of the going up” i.e., the causeway rising up from the Tyropoeon vall"}, {"id": "card_n_9b678e3d05ef", "title": "Easton: Salt, Valley of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A place where it is said David smote the Syrians (2 Sam. 8:13). This valley (the’ Arabah) is between Judah and Edom on the south of the Dead Sea. Hence some interpreters would insert the words, “and h"}, {"id": "card_n_3f10a1bd0ed5", "title": "Easton: Gerizim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A mountain of Samaria, about 3,000 feet above the Mediterranean. It was on the left of the valley containing the ancient town of Shechem (q.v.), on the way to Jerusalem. It stood over against Mount Eb"}]}