{"query": "Easton: Galilee, Sea of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_1084bfdf5d6b", "title": "Easton: Galilee, Sea of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Matt. 4:18; 15:29), is mentioned in the Bible under three other names. (1.) In the Old Testament it is called the “sea of Chinnereth” (Num. 34:11; Josh. 12:3; 13:27), as is supposed from its harp-lik"}, {"id": "card_c_a3252c70fe5b", "title": "Easton: Galilee, Sea of references Galilee", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Galilee (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_d86de59288dd", "title": "Easton: Sea, The", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. yam), signifies (1) “the gathering together of the waters,” the ocean (Gen. 1:10); (2) a river, as the Nile (Isa. 19:5), the Euphrates (Isa. 21:1; Jer. 51:36); (3) the Red Sea (Ex. 14:16, 27; 15"}, {"id": "card_n_439f46b71c34", "title": "Easton: Zebulun, Lot of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In Galilee, to the north of Issachar and south of Asher and Naphtali (Josh. 19:10-16), and between the Sea of Galilee and the Mediterranean. According to ancient prophecy this part of Galilee enjoyed "}, {"id": "card_src_lex_h3220", "title": "H3220 — יָם (yam): sea", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "יָם (yam), Strong's H3220: sea. : sea 1) sea 1a) Mediterranean Sea 1b) Red Sea 1c) Dead Sea 1d) Sea of Galilee 1e) sea (general) 1f) mighty river (Nile) 1g) the sea (the great basin in the temple cour"}, {"id": "card_n_04f8c34dd746", "title": "Easton: Jabbok", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A pouring out, or a wrestling, one of the streams on the east of Jordan, into which it falls about midway between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea, or about 45 miles below the Sea of Galilee. It ri"}, {"id": "card_c_404901a10186", "title": "Easton: Tiberias, Sea of references Galilee", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Galilee (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_98dd9029819c", "title": "Easton: Cana", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Reedy, a town of Galilee, near Capernaum. Here our Lord wrought his first miracle, the turning of water into wine (John 2:1-11; 4:46). It is also mentioned as the birth-place of Nathanael (21:2). It i"}, {"id": "card_n_7dbf0c0d0bed", "title": "Easton: Tiberias, Sea of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called also the Sea of Galilee (q.v.) and of Gennesaret. In the Old Testament it is called the Sea of Chinnereth or Chinneroth. John (21:1) is the only evangelist who so designates this lake. His doin"}, {"id": "card_n_8a6396c166bd", "title": "Easton: Galilee", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Circuit. Solomon rewarded Hiram for certain services rendered him by the gift of an upland plain among the mountains of Naphtali. Hiram was dissatisfied with the gift, and called it “the land of Cabul"}, {"id": "card_n_f482062a5171", "title": "Easton: Dead Sea", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given by Greek writers of the second century to that inland sea called in Scripture the “salt sea” (Gen. 14:3; Num. 34:12), the “sea of the plain” (Deut. 3:17), the “east sea” (Ezek. 47:18; J"}, {"id": "card_n_d1a91f3a0612", "title": "Easton: Peter", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Originally called Simon (=Simeon, i.e., “hearing”), a very common Jewish name in the New Testament. He was the son of Jona (Matt. 16:17). His mother is nowhere named in Scripture. He had a younger bro"}, {"id": "card_n_37bb7663ba5c", "title": "Easton: Gennesaret", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A garden of riches. (1.) A town of Naphtali, called Chinnereth (Josh. 19:35), sometimes in the plural form Chinneroth (11:2). In later times the name was gradually changed to Genezar and Gennesaret (L"}, {"id": "card_n_7ba03035b5c9", "title": "Easton: Arabah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Plain, in the Revised Version of 2 Kings 14:25; Josh. 3:16; 8:14; 2 Sam. 2:29; 4:7 (in all these passages the A.V. has “plain”); Amos 6:14 (A.V. “wilderness”). This word is found in the Authorized Ver"}, {"id": "card_n_31819ec91828", "title": "Easton: Chinnereth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lyre, the singular form of the word (Deut. 3:17; Josh. 19:35), which is also used in the plural form, Chinneroth, the name of a fenced city which stood near the shore of the lake of Galilee, a little "}, {"id": "card_n_eee82fb00777", "title": "Easton: Mount", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Palestine is a hilly country (Deut. 3:25; 11:11; Ezek. 34:13). West of Jordan the mountains stretch from Lebanon far down into Galilee, terminating in Carmel. The isolated peak of Tabor rises from the"}, {"id": "card_n_df17dff4236b", "title": "Easton: Caesara Philippi", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A city on the northeast of the marshy plain of el-Huleh, 120 miles north of Jerusalem, and 20 miles north of the Sea of Galilee, at the “upper source” of the Jordan, and near the base of Mount Hermon."}, {"id": "card_n_ac0230afbb6e", "title": "Easton: Aphik", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Judg. 1:31); Aphek (Josh. 13:4; 19:30), stronghold. (1.) A city of the tribe of Asher. It was the scene of the licentious worship of the Syrian Aphrodite. The ruins of the temple, “magnificent ruins”"}, {"id": "card_n_d9dd11f693ee", "title": "Easton: Tishbite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Elijah the prophet was thus named (1 Kings 17:1; 21:17, 28, etc.). In 1 Kings 17:1 the word rendered “inhabitants” is in the original the same as that rendered “Tishbite,” hence that verse may be read"}, {"id": "card_n_2a235473b1eb", "title": "Easton: Red Sea", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The sea so called extends along the west coast of Arabia for about 1,400 miles, and separates Asia from Africa. It is connected with the Indian Ocean, of which it is an arm, by the Strait of Bab-el-Ma"}]}