{"query": "Easton: Canaan, the language of", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_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_dd654f861c02", "title": "Easton: Canaan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The fourth son of Ham (Gen. 10:6). His descendants were under a curse in consequence of the transgression of his father (9:22-27). His eldest son, Zidon, was the father of the Sidonians and Phoen"}, {"id": "card_src_lex_h3667", "title": "H3667 — כְּנַ֫עַן (ke.na.an): Canaan", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "כְּנַ֫עַן (ke.na.an), Strong's H3667: Canaan. § Canaan = \"lowland\" the land west of the Jordan peopled by the descendants of Canaan and subsequently conquered by the Israelites under Joshua"}, {"id": "card_n_626dcb04f1f2", "title": "Easton: Chushan-rishathaim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cush of double wickedness, or governor of two presidencies, the king of Mesopotamia who oppressed Israel in the generation immediately following Joshua (Judg. 3:8). We learn from the Tell-el-Amarna ta"}, {"id": "card_n_4f4a1850fb90", "title": "Easton: Exodus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The great deliverance wrought for the children of Isreal when they were brought out of the land of Egypt with “a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm” (Ex 12:51; Deut. 26:8; Ps 114; 136), about B."}, {"id": "card_c_0ce2de168ce8", "title": "Easton: Hebrew language references Canaan", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Canaan (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_422813a1fbea", "title": "Easton: Moab", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The seed of the father, or, according to others, the desirable land, the eldest son of Lot (Gen. 19:37), of incestuous birth. (2.) Used to denote the people of Moab (Num. 22:3-14; Judg. 3:30; 2 Sam. 8"}, {"id": "card_n_870e02ca7fd0", "title": "Easton: Building", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Among the Jews was suited to the climate and conditions of the country. They probably adopted the kind of architecture for their dwellings which they found already existing when they entered Canaan (D"}, {"id": "card_n_604c56e81149", "title": "Easton: Palestine", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Originally denoted only the sea-coast of the land of Canaan inhabited by the Philistines (Ex. 15:14; Isa. 14:29, 31; Joel 3:4), and in this sense exclusively the Hebrew name Pelesheth (rendered “Phili"}, {"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_cdb16dbfcea7", "title": "Easton: Chaldees", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Or Chaldeans, the inhabitants of the country of which Babylon was the capital. They were so called till the time of the Captivity (2 Kings 25; Isa. 13:19; 23:13), when, particularly in the Book of Dan"}, {"id": "card_c_51b220e66c8b", "title": "Easton: Ephraim, The tribe of references Canaan", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Canaan (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_3eb102a624b8", "title": "Easton: Babylon, kingdom of references Canaan", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Canaan (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_640f6d7f22d2", "title": "Easton: Naphtali, Tribe of references Canaan", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Canaan (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_9d2138f4c1e9", "title": "Easton: Zebulun, Tribe of references Canaan", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Canaan (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_47d7cada69de", "title": "Easton: Jabin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Discerner; the wise. (1.) A king of Hazor, at the time of the entrance of Israel into Canaan (Josh. 11:1-14), whose overthrow and that of the northern chief with whom he had entered into a confederacy"}, {"id": "card_n_23ddfa0652b0", "title": "Easton: Acts of the Apostles", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The title now given to the fifth and last of the historical books of the New Testament. The author styles it a “treatise” (1:1). It was early called “The Acts,” “The Gospel of the Holy Ghost,” and “Th"}, {"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"}, {"id": "card_n_1b68a9df3e0a", "title": "Easton: Girgashite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Dwelling in clayey soil, the descendants of the fifth son of Canaan (Gen. 10:16), one of the original tribes inhabiting the land of Canaan before the time of the Israelites (Gen. 15:21; Deut. 7:1). Th"}]}