{"query": "Easton: Asia", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f844c3f86bdb", "title": "Easton: Asia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is used to denote Proconsular Asia, a Roman province which embraced the western parts of Asia Minor, and of which Ephesus was the capital, in Acts 2:9; 6:9; 16:6; 19:10, 22; 20:4, 16, 18, etc., and pr"}, {"id": "card_c_m_aed385b4b2f8", "title": "Easton: Conversion shares a section with Easton: Asia", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Conversion shares a section with Easton: Asia."}, {"id": "card_c_m_ca3d2757e6fa", "title": "Easton: Amphipolis shares a section with Easton: Asia", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Amphipolis shares a section with Easton: Asia."}, {"id": "card_c_m_a53fbf228506", "title": "Easton: Dross shares a section with Easton: Chiefs of Asia", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Dross shares a section with Easton: Chiefs of Asia."}, {"id": "card_c_m_38765da4e945", "title": "Easton: Chiefs of Asia shares a section with Easton: Blind", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Chiefs of Asia shares a section with Easton: Blind."}, {"id": "card_n_af411d1ea6cb", "title": "Easton: Chiefs of Asia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“Asiarchs,” the title given to certain wealthy persons annually appointed to preside over the religious festivals and games in the various cities of proconsular Asia (Acts 19:31). Some of these offici"}, {"id": "card_c_m_2955c267210e", "title": "Revelation cites Easton: Asia", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Revelation cites Easton: Asia."}, {"id": "card_n_a7c004504bb5", "title": "Easton: Epaenetus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Commendable, a Christian at Rome to whom Paul sent his salutation (Rom. 16:5). He is spoken of as “the first fruits of Achaia” (R.V., “of Asia”, i.e., of proconsular Asia, which is probably the correc"}, {"id": "card_n_12f0fa95e7f5", "title": "Easton: Ephesus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The capital of proconsular Asia, which was the western part of Asia Minor. It was colonized principally from Athens. In the time of the Romans it bore the title of “the first and greatest metropolis o"}, {"id": "card_c_3d4e9ab1bac0", "title": "Easton: Chiefs of Asia ↔ Easton: Asia", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both cite act 19:31 — a shared-scripture cross-reference computed in 1.0 and re-verified live in both cards."}, {"id": "card_n_4d974cdf43bd", "title": "Easton: Gaius", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A Macedonian, Paul’s fellow-traveller, and his host at Corinth when he wrote his Epistle to the Romans (16:23). He with his household were baptized by Paul (1 Cor. 1:14). During a heathen outbrea"}, {"id": "card_c_20893ea5f87c", "title": "Easton: Chiefs of Asia ↔ Easton: Dross", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_concept_a_d — 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_baa975d4ad2d", "title": "Easton: Hermogenes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mercury-born, at one time Paul’s fellow-labourer in Asia Minor, who, however, afterwards abandoned him, along with one Phygellus, probably on account of the perils by which they were beset (2 Tim. 1:1"}, {"id": "card_n_f4293f5a3e0e", "title": "Easton: Myra", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the chief towns of Lycia, in Asia Minor, about 2 1/2 miles from the coast (Acts 27:5). Here Paul removed from the Adramyttian ship in which he had sailed from Caesarea, and entered into the Ale"}, {"id": "card_n_9de284733d92", "title": "Easton: Rhodes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A rose, an island to the south of the western extremity of Asia Minor, between Coos and Patara, about 46 miles long and 18 miles broad. Here the apostle probably landed on his way from Greece to Syria"}, {"id": "card_n_2aa4e0245a92", "title": "Easton: Galatia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Has been called the “Gallia” of the East, Roman writers calling its inhabitants Galli. They were an intermixture of Gauls and Greeks, and hence were called Gallo-Graeci, and the country Gallo-Graecia."}, {"id": "card_n_1c18784a6523", "title": "Easton: Lycia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A wolf, a province in the south-west of Asia Minor, opposite the island of Rhodes. It forms part of the region now called Tekeh. It was a province of the Roman empire when visited by Paul (Acts 21:1; "}, {"id": "card_n_a29831e76d86", "title": "Easton: Camel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From the Hebrew gamal, “to repay” or “requite,” as the camel does the care of its master. There are two distinct species of camels, having, however, the common characteristics of being “ruminants with"}, {"id": "card_n_02ac6f811c16", "title": "Easton: Paul", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Saul (q.v.) was born about the same time as our Lord. His circumcision-name was Saul, and probably the name Paul was also given to him in infancy “for use in the Gentile world,” as “Saul” would be hi"}, {"id": "card_n_ddb12bb03a8b", "title": "Easton: Assos", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A sea-port town of Proconsular Asia, in the district of Mysia, on the north shore of the Gulf of Adramyttium. Paul came hither on foot along the Roman road from Troas (Acts 20:13, 14), a distance of 2"}]}