{"query": "Easton: Plain", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_310f96717350", "title": "Easton: Plain", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. ‘abel (Judg. 11:33), a “grassy plain” or “meadow.” Instead of “plains of the vineyards,” as in the Authorized Version, the Revised Version has “Abel-cheramim” (q.v.), comp. Judg. 11:22; 2 Ch"}, {"id": "card_n_8dfa0797559c", "title": "Easton: Siddim, Vale of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Valley of the broad plains, “which is the salt sea” (Gen. 14:3, 8, 10), between Engedi and the cities of the plain, at the south end of the Dead Sea. It was “full of slime-pits” (R.V., “bitumen pits”)"}, {"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_n_11462bbce2a6", "title": "Easton: Megiddo", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Place of troops, originally one of the royal cities of the Canaanites (Josh. 12:21), belonged to the tribe of Manasseh (Judg. 1:27), but does not seem to have been fully occupied by the Israelites til"}, {"id": "card_n_ba1f3a9dabf9", "title": "Easton: Moreh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An archer, teacher; fruitful. (1.) A Canaanite probably who inhabited the district south of Shechem, between Mounts Ebal and Gerizim, and gave his name to the “plain” there (Gen. 12:6). Here at this “"}, {"id": "card_n_5dad79052507", "title": "Easton: Sinai", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of Sin (the moon god), called also Horeb, the name of the mountain district which was reached by the Hebrews in the third month after the Exodus. Here they remained encamped for about a whole year. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_fe4bf814bb06", "title": "Easton: Merom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Height, a lake in Northern Palestine through which the Jordan flows. It was the scene of the third and last great victory gained by Joshua over the Canaanites (Josh. 11:5-7). It is not again mentioned"}, {"id": "card_n_79f49aa0f959", "title": "Easton: Shoa", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Opulent, the mountain district lying to the north-east of Babylonia, anciently the land of the Guti, or Kuti, the modern Kurdistan. The plain lying between these mountains and the Tigris was called su"}, {"id": "card_src_book_7046", "title": "Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain — Harriet Manning Whitcomb", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain, by Harriet Manning Whitcomb. Subjects: Jamaica Plain (Boston, Mass.) -- History. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7046"}, {"id": "card_src_word_coastal_plain", "title": "coastal plain", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "coastal plain: (noun) a plain adjacent to a coast"}, {"id": "card_n_457ae337022c", "title": "Easton: Zeboim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Gazelles or roes. (1.) One of the “five cities of the plain” of Sodom, generally coupled with Admah (Gen. 10:19; 14:2; Deut. 29:23; Hos. 11:8). It had a king of its own (Shemeber), and was therefore a"}, {"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_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_src_word_serengeti_plain", "title": "serengeti plain", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "serengeti plain: (noun) a vast plain in Tanzania to the west of the Great Rift Valley known for its wildlife — syn: Serengeti"}, {"id": "card_src_word_flood_plain", "title": "flood plain", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "flood plain: (noun) a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding — syn: floodplain"}, {"id": "card_n_597705b0c9c4", "title": "Easton: Sodom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Burning; the walled, a city in the vale of Siddim (Gen. 13:10; 14:1-16). The wickedness of its inhabitants brought down upon it fire from heaven, by which it was destroyed (18:16-33; 19:1-29; Deut. 23"}, {"id": "card_n_43105d82f21d", "title": "Easton: Kedesh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sanctuary. (1.) A place in the extreme south of Judah (Josh. 15:23). Probably the same as Kadesh-barnea (q.v.). (2.) A city of Issachar (1 Chr. 6:72). Possibly Tell Abu Kadeis, near Lejjun. (3.) A “fe"}, {"id": "card_src_word_plain_stitch", "title": "plain stitch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "plain stitch: (noun) a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side — syn: knit, knit stitch, plain"}, {"id": "card_n_063bae9f06b1", "title": "Easton: Ararat", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sacred land or high land, the name of a country on one of the mountains of which the ark rested after the Flood subsided (Gen. 8:4). The “mountains” mentioned were probably the Kurdish range of South "}, {"id": "card_n_50398b704081", "title": "Easton: Chaldea", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The southern portion of Babylonia, Lower Mesopotamia, lying chiefly on the right bank of the Euphrates, but commonly used of the whole of the Mesopotamian plain. The Hebrew name is Kasdim, which is us"}]}