Dict: easton - Snow

easton:

Snow @ Common in Palestine in winter kjv@Psalms:147:16). The snow on the tops of the Lebanon range is almost always within view throughout the whole year. The word is frequently used figuratively by the sacred writers kjv@Job:24:19; kjv@Psalms:51:7 kjv@Psalms:68:14; kjv@Isaiah:1:18). It is mentioned only once in the historical books ( kjv@2Samuel:23:20). It was "carried to Tyre, Sidon, and Damascus as a luxury, and labourers sweltering in the hot harvest-fields used it for the purpose of cooling the water which they drank kjv@Proverbs:25:13; kjv@Jeremiah:18:14). No doubt Herod Antipas, at his feasts in Tiberias, enjoyed also from this very source the modern luxury of ice-water."