{"query": "Easton: Castor and Pollux", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_7af13606b208", "title": "Easton: Castor and Pollux", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The “Dioscuri”, two heroes of Greek and Roman mythology. Their figures were probably painted or sculptured on the prow of the ship which Luke refers to (Acts 28:11). They were regarded as the tutelary"}, {"id": "card_c_57e51e2e59b9", "title": "Easton: Castor and Pollux ↔ Easton: Astronomy", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both cite act 28:11 — a shared-scripture cross-reference computed in 1.0 and re-verified live in both cards."}, {"id": "card_src_word_castor_oil_plant", "title": "castor-oil plant", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "castor-oil plant: (noun) large shrub of tropical Africa and Asia having large palmate leaves and spiny capsules containing seeds that are the source of castor oil and ricin; widely naturalized through"}, {"id": "card_src_word_castor_bean_plant", "title": "castor bean plant", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "castor bean plant: (noun) large shrub of tropical Africa and Asia having large palmate leaves and spiny capsules containing seeds that are the source of castor oil and ricin; widely naturalized throug"}, {"id": "card_src_word_pollux", "title": "pollux", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "pollux: (noun) the brightest star in Gemini; close to Castor"}, {"id": "card_n_05e4265f7048", "title": "Easton: Astronomy", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hebrews were devout students of the wonders of the starry firmanent (Amos 5:8; Ps. 19). In the Book of Job, which is the oldest book of the Bible in all probability, the constellations are disting"}, {"id": "card_c_2d07e72d1658", "title": "Easton: Castor and Pollux cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 28:11 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_src_word_castor_oil", "title": "castor oil", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "castor oil: (noun) a purgative extracted from the seed of the castor-oil plant; used in paint and varnish as well as medically"}, {"id": "card_src_word_castor", "title": "castor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "castor: (noun) a multiple star with 6 components; second brightest in Gemini; close to Pollux — syn: Alpha Geminorum · (noun) a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar — syn: caster"}, {"id": "card_src_word_palma_christ", "title": "palma christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "palma christ: (noun) large shrub of tropical Africa and Asia having large palmate leaves and spiny capsules containing seeds that are the source of castor oil and ricin; widely naturalized throughout "}, {"id": "card_src_word_palma_christi", "title": "palma christi", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "palma christi: (noun) large shrub of tropical Africa and Asia having large palmate leaves and spiny capsules containing seeds that are the source of castor oil and ricin; widely naturalized throughout"}, {"id": "card_src_word_ricinus_communis", "title": "ricinus communis", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "ricinus communis: (noun) large shrub of tropical Africa and Asia having large palmate leaves and spiny capsules containing seeds that are the source of castor oil and ricin; widely naturalized through"}, {"id": "card_src_lex_g1359", "title": "G1359 — Διόσκουροι (Dioskouroi): the twin gods", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Διόσκουροι (Dioskouroi), Strong's G1359: the twin gods. Διόσ-κουροι , -ων, οἱ (Ion. and κοινή form of Att..., Διόσκοροι; Διός, genitive of Ζεύς + κόρος, a son), the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux), twin "}, {"id": "card_src_word_alpha_geminorum", "title": "alpha geminorum", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "alpha geminorum: (noun) a multiple star with 6 components; second brightest in Gemini; close to Pollux — syn: Castor"}, {"id": "card_n_35577e29e930", "title": "Easton: Ishmael", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God hears. (1.) Abraham’s eldest son, by Hagar the concubine (Gen. 16:15; 17:23). He was born at Mamre, when Abraham was eighty-six years of age, eleven years after his arrival in Canaan (16:3; 21:5)."}, {"id": "card_n_32eb82a23d70", "title": "Easton: Nehemiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Comforted by Jehovah. (1.) Ezra 2:2; Neh. 7:7. (2.) Neh. 3:16. (3.) The son of Hachaliah (Neh. 1:1), and probably of the tribe of Judah. His family must have belonged to Jerusalem (Neh. 2:3). He was o"}, {"id": "card_n_08e3499917dc", "title": "Easton: Herod the Great", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Matt. 2:1-22; Luke 1:5; Acts 23:35), the son of Antipater, an Idumaean, and Cypros, an Arabian of noble descent. In the year B.C. 47 Julius Caesar made Antipater, a “wily Idumaean,” procurator of Jud"}, {"id": "card_n_32809b73b3b4", "title": "Easton: Ark", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Noah’s ark, a building of gopher-wood, and covered with pitch, 300 cubits long, 50 cubits broad, and 30 cubits high (Gen. 6:14-16); an oblong floating house of three stories, with a door in the side a"}, {"id": "card_n_97056886d636", "title": "Easton: Gourd", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Jonah’s gourd (Jonah 4:6-10), bearing the Hebrew name kikayon (found only here), was probably the kiki of the Egyptians, the croton. This is the castor-oil plant, a species of ricinus, the palma "}, {"id": "card_n_3b46d79dcf77", "title": "Easton: Adam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Red, a Babylonian word, the generic name for man, having the same meaning in the Hebrew and the Assyrian languages. It was the name given to the first man, whose creation, fall, and subsequent history"}]}