{"query": "Easton: By-word", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f20ec40cc2e8", "title": "Easton: By-word", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hebrew millah (Job 30:9), a word or speech, and hence object of talk; Hebrew mashal (Ps. 44:14), a proverb or parable. When it denotes a sharp word of derision, as in Deut. 28:37, 1 Kings 9:7, 2 Chr. "}, {"id": "card_c_m_48303e2485c4", "title": "Easton: By-word shares a section with Easton: Adultery", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: By-word shares a section with Easton: Adultery."}, {"id": "card_c_m_d2ef8398282f", "title": "Easton: By-word shares a section with Easton: Claudius", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: By-word shares a section with Easton: Claudius."}, {"id": "card_n_2133c346ee9b", "title": "Easton: Love", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word seems to require explanation only in the case of its use by our Lord in his interview with “Simon, the son of Jonas,” after his resurrection (John 21:16, 17). When our Lord says, “Lovest tho"}, {"id": "card_n_4d83e01c50a0", "title": "Easton: Atonement", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word does not occur in the Authorized Version of the New Testament except in Rom. 5:11, where in the Revised Version the word “reconciliation” is used. In the Old Testament it is of frequent occu"}, {"id": "card_n_663e36151935", "title": "Easton: Degrees, Song of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Song of steps, a title given to each of these fifteen psalms, 120-134 inclusive. The probable origin of this name is the circumstance that these psalms came to be sung by the people on the ascents or "}, {"id": "card_n_be06128aa496", "title": "Easton: Jehovah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The special and significant name (not merely an appellative title such as Lord [adonai]) by which God revealed himself to the ancient Hebrews (Ex. 6:2, 3). This name, the Tetragrammaton of the Greeks,"}, {"id": "card_n_72a54afcd69b", "title": "Easton: Tortoise", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. tsabh). Ranked among the unclean animals (Lev. 11:29). Land tortoises are common in Syria. The LXX. renders the word by “land crocodile.” The word, however, more probably denotes a lizard, calle"}, {"id": "card_n_d423b7639365", "title": "Easton: Baptism, Christian", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An ordinance immediately instituted by Christ (Matt. 28:19, 20), and designed to be observed in the church, like that of the Supper, “till he come.” The words “baptize” and “baptism” are simply Greek "}, {"id": "card_n_b2c44a838893", "title": "Easton: Churl", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In Isa. 32:5 (R.V. marg., “crafty”), means a deceiver. In 1 Sam. 25:3, the word churlish denotes a man that is coarse and ill-natured, or, as the word literally means, “hard.” The same Greek word as u"}, {"id": "card_n_1bf8708468bc", "title": "Easton: God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(A.S. and Dutch God; Dan. Gud; Ger. Gott), the name of the Divine Being. It is the rendering (1) of the Hebrew ’El, from a word meaning to be strong; (2) of ’Eloah_, plural _’Elohim. The singular form"}, {"id": "card_n_1ab6b9f04639", "title": "Easton: Michtam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Writing; i.e., a poem or song found in the titles of Ps. 16; 56-60. Some translate the word “golden”, i.e., precious. It is rendered in the LXX. by a word meaning “tablet inscription” or a “stelograph"}, {"id": "card_n_58684f4f1f5a", "title": "Easton: Corn", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The word so rendered (dagan) in Gen. 27:28, 37, Num. 18:27, Deut. 28:51, Lam. 2:12, is a general term representing all the commodities we usually describe by the words corn, grain, seeds, peas, beans."}, {"id": "card_n_d070a34c67cf", "title": "Easton: Word of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. 4:12, etc.). The Bible so called because the writers of its several books were God’s organs in communicating his will to men. It is his “word,” because he speaks to us in its sacred pages. Whate"}, {"id": "card_n_8db09f984529", "title": "Easton: Inkhorn", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hebrew word so rendered means simply a round vessel or cup for containing ink, which was generally worn by writers in the girdle (Ezek. 9:2, 3, 11). The word “inkhorn” was used by the translators,"}, {"id": "card_n_10125cc415d2", "title": "Easton: Grove", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. ‘asherah, properly a wooden image, or a pillar representing Ashtoreth, a sensual Canaanitish goddess, probably usually set up in a grove (2 Kings 21:7; 23:4). In the Revised Version the word"}, {"id": "card_n_88a9d5e631d1", "title": "Easton: Fairs", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ‘izabhonim), found seven times in Ezek. 27, and nowhere else. The Authorized Version renders the word thus in all these instances, except in verse 33, where “wares” is used. The Revised Version "}, {"id": "card_n_dfd15e83af3f", "title": "Easton: Tribute", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A tax imposed by a king on his subjects (2 Sam. 20:24; 1 Kings 4:6; Rom. 13:6). In Matt. 17:24-27 the word denotes the temple rate (the “didrachma,” the “half-shekel,” as rendered by the R.V.) which w"}, {"id": "card_n_639a84073b62", "title": "Easton: Bracelet", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Anklets (Num. 31:50; 2 Sam. 1:10), and with reference to men. (2.) The rendering of a Hebrew word meaning fasteners, found in Gen. 24:22, 30, 47. (3.) In Isa. 3:19, the rendering of a Hebrew word"}, {"id": "card_n_b7e0abd7a6e4", "title": "Easton: Amber", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ezek. 1:4, 27; 8:2. Heb., hashmal, rendered by the LXX. elektron, and by the Vulgate electrum), a metal compounded of silver and gold. Some translate the word by “polished brass,” others “fine brass,"}]}