{"query": "Easton: Thorn in the flesh", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_e3713c4d742c", "title": "Easton: Thorn in the flesh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(2 Cor. 12:7-10). Many interpretations have been given of this passage. (1.) Roman Catholic writers think that it denotes suggestions to impiety. (2.) Luther, Calvin, and other Reformers interpret the"}, {"id": "card_n_c43472af9e23", "title": "Easton: Flesh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In the Old Testament denotes (1) a particular part of the body of man and animals (Gen. 2:21; 41:2; Ps. 102:5, marg.); (2) the whole body (Ps. 16:9); (3) all living things having flesh, and particular"}, {"id": "card_c_3d7ca6b60b1f", "title": "A parable — Suffering illness ↔ Easton: Thorn in the flesh", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "A man prayed three times for the thorn to be removed. Each time the answer was no. The fourth time he did not ask, and learned: the thorn was the door through which grace had come.  — a concord the ca"}, {"id": "card_n_0b5c0fbe5a50", "title": "Easton: Flesh-hook", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A many-pronged fork used in the sacrificial services (1 Sam. 2:13, 14; Ex. 27:3; 38:3) by the priest in drawing away the flesh. The fat of the sacrifice, together with the breast and shoulder (Lev. 7:"}, {"id": "card_c_5d106529b98b", "title": "Easton: Ananias ↔ Easton: Thorn in the flesh", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both cite act 23:5 — a shared-scripture cross-reference computed in 1.0 and re-verified live in both cards."}, {"id": "card_c_8518f67b97a6", "title": "Easton: Thorn in the flesh cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 23:5; Acts 15:39 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_169ab095061e", "title": "Easton: Kibroth-hattaavah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The graves of the longing or of lust, one of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness. It was probably in the Wady Murrah, and has been identified with the Erweis el-Ebeirig, where the remains"}, {"id": "card_n_94091aed4413", "title": "Easton: Brier", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word occurs frequently, and is the translation of several different terms. (1.) Micah 7:4, it denotes a species of thorn shrub used for hedges. In Prov. 15:19 the word is rendered “thorn” (Heb. h"}, {"id": "card_n_57db59054153", "title": "Easton: Thorn", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. hedek (Prov. 15:19), rendered “brier” in Micah 7:4. Some thorny plant, of the Solanum family, suitable for hedges. This is probably the so-called “apple of Sodom,” which grows very abundantl"}, {"id": "card_n_55446f052b23", "title": "Easton: Thistle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. hoah (2 Kings 14:9; Job 31:40). In Job 41:2 the Hebrew word is rendered “thorn,” but in the Revised Version “hook.” It is also rendered “thorn” in 2 Chr. 33:11; Prov. 26:9; Cant. 2:2; “bramb"}, {"id": "card_n_c84effbaf92f", "title": "Easton: Cutting", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The flesh in various ways was an idolatrous practice, a part of idol-worship (Deut. 14:1; 1 Kings 18:28). The Israelites were commanded not to imitate this practice (Lev. 19:28; 21:5; Deut. 14:1). The"}, {"id": "card_n_ac4aeafb8cbc", "title": "Easton: Quails", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Israelites were twice relieved in their privation by a miraculous supply of quails, (1) in the wilderness of Sin (Ex. 16:13), and (2) again at Kibroth-hattaavah (q.v.), Num. 11:31. God “rained fle"}, {"id": "card_n_16838d75beae", "title": "Easton: Raven", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ‘orebh, from a root meaning “to be black” (comp. Cant. 5:11); first mentioned as “sent forth” by Noah from the ark (Gen. 8:7). “Every raven after his kind” was forbidden as food (Lev. 11:15; Deut"}, {"id": "card_n_96bd38ccd836", "title": "Easton: Melons", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Only in Num. 11:5, the translation of the Hebrew abattihim, the LXX. and Vulgate pepones, Arabic britikh. Of this plant there are various kinds, the Egyptian melon, the Cucumus chate, which has been c"}, {"id": "card_n_5a332e9890ce", "title": "Easton: Numbering of the people", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Besides the numbering of the tribes mentioned in the history of the wanderings in the wilderness, we have an account of a general census of the whole nation from Dan to Beersheba, which David gave dir"}, {"id": "card_n_8fe39337e3b8", "title": "Easton: Michmash", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Something hidden, a town of Benjamin (Ezra 2:27), east of Bethel and south of Migron, on the road to Jerusalem (Isa. 10:28). It lay on the line of march of an invading army from the north, on the nort"}, {"id": "card_n_9b0d882dc139", "title": "Easton: Koz", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Thorn. (1.) A descendant of Judah. 1 Chr. 4:8, “Coz;” R.V., “Hakkoz.” (2.) A priest, the head of the seventh division of the priests (Ezra 2:61; Neh. 3:4, 21; 7:63). In 1 Chr. 24:10 the word has the a"}, {"id": "card_n_e8edbb21211b", "title": "Easton: Seneh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The acacia; rock-thorn, the southern cliff in the Wady es-Suweinit, a valley south of Michmash, which Jonathan climbed with his armour-bearer (1 Sam. 14:4, 5). The rock opposite, on the other side of "}, {"id": "card_n_5320db689f91", "title": "Easton: Lime", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hebrew word so rendered means “boiling” or “effervescing.” From Isa. 33:12 it appears that lime was made in a kiln lighted by thorn-bushes. In Amos 2:1 it is recorded that the king of Moab “burned"}, {"id": "card_n_e1df4c77bac5", "title": "Easton: Word, The", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. Logos), one of the titles of our Lord, found only in the writings of John (John 1:1-14; 1 John 1:1; Rev. 19:13). As such, Christ is the revealer of God. His office is to make God known. “No man h"}]}