{"query": "Easton: Jacob’s Well", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_29770913899b", "title": "Easton: Jacob’s Well", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(John 4:5, 6). This is one of the few sites in Palestine about which there is no dispute. It was dug by Jacob, and hence its name, in the “parcel of ground” which he purchased from the sons of Hamor ("}, {"id": "card_n_aca7dfd9c431", "title": "Easton: Shalem", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Perfect, a place (probably the village of Salim) some 2 miles east of Jacob’s well. There is an abundant supply of water, which may have been the reason for Jacob’s settling at this place (Gen. 33:18-"}, {"id": "card_n_d4231bd62152", "title": "Easton: Well", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. beer), to be distinguished from a fountain (Heb. ‘ain). A “beer” was a deep shaft, bored far under the rocky surface by the art of man, which contained water which percolated through the strata "}, {"id": "card_n_f22999b78afb", "title": "Easton: Dinah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Judged; vindicated, daughter of Jacob by Leah, and sister of Simeon and Levi (Gen. 30:21). She was seduced by Shechem, the son of Hamor, the Hivite chief, when Jacob’s camp was in the neighbourhood of"}, {"id": "card_n_24cf493dc8b4", "title": "Easton: Sychar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Liar or drunkard (see Isa. 28:1, 7), has been from the time of the Crusaders usually identified with Sychem or Shechem (John 4:5). It has now, however, as the result of recent explorations, been ident"}, {"id": "card_c_2ea63a141e80", "title": "The Source Is Already Inside ↔ Easton: Jacob’s Well", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Jesus does not tell the woman at the well to find a better cistern or to draw more carefully.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_c_c649ebabf87b", "title": "Easton: Sychar ↔ Easton: Jacob’s Well", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both cite joh 4:5 — a shared-scripture cross-reference computed in 1.0 and re-verified live in both cards."}, {"id": "card_c_274864495418", "title": "Easton: Jacob’s Well ↔ Easton: Burial", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both cite joh 4:5 — a shared-scripture cross-reference computed in 1.0 and re-verified live in both cards."}, {"id": "card_n_3d4cd9cfdc02", "title": "Easton: Rachel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ewe, “the daughter”, “the somewhat petulant, peevish, and self-willed though beautiful younger daughter” of Laban, and one of Jacob’s wives (Gen. 29:6, 28). He served Laban fourteen years for her, so "}, {"id": "card_n_0985414ff4b3", "title": "Easton: Patriarch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A name employed in the New Testament with reference to Abraham (Heb. 7:4), the sons of Jacob (Acts 7:8, 9), and to David (2:29). This name is generally applied to the progenitors of families or “heads"}, {"id": "card_n_5f4cbdf547c1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_019: In boyhood itself, however (so much less dreaded for me than youth), I loved ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In boyhood itself, however (so much less dreaded for me than youth), I loved not study, and hated to be forced to it. Yet I was forced; and this was well done towards me, but I did not well; for, unle"}, {"id": "card_n_283e50804ef4", "title": "Easton: Leah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Weary, the eldest daughter of Laban, and sister of Rachel (Gen. 29:16). Jacob took her to wife through a deceit of her father (Gen. 29:23). She was “tender-eyed” (17). She bore to Jacob six sons (32-3"}, {"id": "card_n_6f20e4902b9a", "title": "Easton: Cuckoo", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. shahaph), from a root meaning “to be lean; slender.” This bird is mentioned only in Lev. 11:16 and Deut. 14:15 (R.V., “seamew”). Some have interpreted the Hebrew word by “petrel” or “shearwater”"}, {"id": "card_n_860c6cffa6b5", "title": "Easton: Beer-lahai-roi", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I.e., “the well of him that liveth and seeth me,” or, as some render it, “the well of the vision of life”, the well where the Lord met with Hagar (Gen. 16:7-14). Isaac dwelt beside this well (24:62; 2"}, {"id": "card_n_cef4a44af69f", "title": "Easton: Reuben", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Behold a son!, the eldest son of Jacob and Leah (Gen. 29:32). His sinful conduct, referred to in Gen. 35:22, brought down upon him his dying father’s malediction (48:4). He showed kindness to Joseph, "}, {"id": "card_n_4a82d606103e", "title": "Easton: Election of Grace", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Scripture speaks (1) of the election of individuals to office or to honour and privilege, e.g., Abraham, Jacob, Saul, David, Solomon, were all chosen by God for the positions they held; so also we"}, {"id": "card_n_8ccaeea1a941", "title": "Easton: Shechem", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Shoulder. (1.) The son of Hamor the Hivite (Gen. 33:19; 34). (2.) A descendant of Manasseh (Num. 26:31; Josh. 17:2). (3.) A city in Samaria (Gen. 33:18), called also Sichem (12:6), Sychem (Acts 7:16)."}, {"id": "card_n_71d82ac3286f", "title": "Easton: Money", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of uncoined money the first notice we have is in the history of Abraham (Gen. 13:2; 20:16; 24:35). Next, this word is used in connection with the purchase of the cave of Machpelah (23:16), and again i"}, {"id": "card_n_361dc3c83c89", "title": "Easton: Serpent", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. nahash; Gr. ophis), frequently noticed in Scripture. More than forty species are found in Syria and Arabia. The poisonous character of the serpent is alluded to in Jacob’s blessing on Dan (Gen. "}, {"id": "card_c_e88ab114473f", "title": "Easton: Jacob’s Well cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 4:5 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}]}