{"query": "Easton: Sheep-fold", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_af7d3b9d5ebf", "title": "Easton: Sheep-fold", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A strong fenced enclosure for the protection of the sheep gathered within it (Num. 32:24; 1 Chr. 17:7; Ps. 50:9; 78:70). In John 10:16 the Authorized Version renders by “fold” two distinct Greek words"}, {"id": "card_n_98fd35846353", "title": "John 10", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.\n2. But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of th"}, {"id": "card_n_8b7bcab57e12", "title": "Easton: Fold", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An enclosure for flocks to rest together (Isa. 13:20). Sheep-folds are mentioned Num. 32:16, 24, 36; 2 Sam. 7:8; Zeph. 2:6; John 10:1, etc. It was prophesied of the cities of Ammon (Ezek. 25:5), Aroer"}, {"id": "card_src_word_sheep_pen", "title": "sheep pen", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "sheep pen: (noun) a pen for sheep — syn: fold, sheepfold, sheepcote"}, {"id": "card_n_4c83f4c09b41", "title": "Easton: Shepherd", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A word naturally of frequent occurence in Scripture. Sometimes the word “pastor” is used instead (Jer. 2:8; 3:15; 10:21; 12:10; 17:16). This word is used figuratively to represent the relation of rule"}, {"id": "card_src_word_fold", "title": "fold", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "fold: (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding — syn: crease, plication, flexure, crimp, bend · (noun) a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church — s"}, {"id": "card_n_cfadbf0d9df5", "title": "Easton: Hall", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. aule, Luke 22:55; R.V., “court”), the open court or quadrangle belonging to the high priest’s house. In Matt. 26:69 and Mark 14:66 this word is incorrectly rendered “palace” in the Authorized Ver"}, {"id": "card_c_44b6a1a8d38b", "title": "Easton: Sheep-fold references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_3430c86a9ce4", "title": "Easton: Sheep-market", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Occurs only in John 5:2 (marg., also R.V., “sheep-gate”). The word so rendered is an adjective, and it is uncertain whether the noun to be supplied should be “gate” or, following the Vulgate Version, "}, {"id": "card_c_2982e5a0712f", "title": "Easton: Sheep-fold cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 10:16 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_645c03caa2ea", "title": "Easton: Sheep-fold cites Luke", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Luke 2:8 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_c509e7979431", "title": "Easton: Sheep", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Are of different varieties. Probably the flocks of Abraham and Isaac were of the wild species found still in the mountain regions of Persia and Kurdistan. After the Exodus, and as a result of intercou"}, {"id": "card_src_word_pen_up", "title": "pen up", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "pen up: (verb) confine in a fold, like sheep — syn: fold"}, {"id": "card_src_word_sheepcote", "title": "sheepcote", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "sheepcote: (noun) a pen for sheep — syn: fold, sheepfold, sheep pen"}, {"id": "card_src_word_sheepfold", "title": "sheepfold", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "sheepfold: (noun) a pen for sheep — syn: fold, sheep pen, sheepcote"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_micah_4_8", "title": "Matthew Henry on Micah 4:8", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Micah 4:8 — These verses relate to Zion and Jerusalem, here called the tower of the flock or the tower of Edor; we read of such a place (Gen 35:21) near Bethlehem; and some conjecture it is the sam"}, {"id": "card_n_fa1a942e187a", "title": "Easton: Bethesda", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "House of mercy, a reservoir (Gr. kolumbethra, “a swimming bath”) with five porches, close to the sheep-gate or market (Neh. 3:1; John 5:2). Eusebius the historian (A.D. 330) calls it “the sheep-pool.”"}, {"id": "card_c_03f6fa741579", "title": "Easton: Hind ↔ Easton: Fold", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_concept_e_h — a structural sibling link restored from 1.0's nesting (re-verified same section live). Connects the map so no card is left orphaned."}, {"id": "card_c_ae676a6005be", "title": "Easton: Hermas ↔ Easton: Fold", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_concept_e_h — a structural sibling link restored from 1.0's nesting (re-verified same section live). Connects the map so no card is left orphaned."}, {"id": "card_n_3712fb9d672a", "title": "Easton: Nabal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Foolish, a descendant of Caleb who dwelt at Maon (1 Sam. 25), the modern Main, 7 miles south-east of Hebron. He was “very great, and he had 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats...but the man was churlish and e"}]}