{"query": "Easton: Covenant", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d0a36622cd97", "title": "Easton: Covenant", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A contract or agreement between two parties. In the Old Testament the Hebrew word berith is always thus translated. Berith is derived from a root which means “to cut,” and hence a covenant is a “cutti"}, {"id": "card_n_a6a421e3c16c", "title": "Easton: Works, Covenant of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Entered into by God with Adam as the representative of the human race (comp. Gen. 9:11, 12; 17:1-21), so styled because perfect obedience was its condition, thus distinguishing it from the covenant of"}, {"id": "card_n_8464079d9b3f", "title": "Easton: New Testament", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Luke 22:20), rather “New Covenant,” in contrast to the old covenant of works, which is superseded. “The covenant of grace is called new; it succeeds to the old broken covenant of works. It is ever fr"}, {"id": "card_c_m_7fd693c0b1e2", "title": "Easton: Works, Covenant of shares a section with Easton: Week", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Works, Covenant of shares a section with Easton: Week."}, {"id": "card_c_m_5bca86b3825b", "title": "Easton: Wine-press shares a section with Easton: Works, Covenant of", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Wine-press shares a section with Easton: Works, Covenant of."}, {"id": "card_c_m_8f0d047ca56c", "title": "Matthew cites Easton: Covenant", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Matthew cites Easton: Covenant."}, {"id": "card_n_e723019597ad", "title": "Easton: Commandments, the Ten", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ex. 34:28; Deut. 10:4, marg. “ten words”) i.e., the Decalogue (q.v.), is a summary of the immutable moral law. These commandments were first given in their written form to the people of Israel when t"}, {"id": "card_n_f652e440cae5", "title": "Easton: Baal-berith", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Covenant lord, the name of the god worshipped in Shechem after the death of Gideon (Judg. 8:33; 9:4). In 9:46 he is called simply “the god Berith.” The name denotes the god of the covenant into which "}, {"id": "card_n_aeb6083c98dc", "title": "Easton: Alliance", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A treaty between nations, or between individuals, for their mutual advantage. Abraham formed an alliance with some of the Canaanitish princes (Gen. 14:13), also with Abimelech (21:22-32). Joshua and t"}, {"id": "card_n_60745de1050f", "title": "Easton: Euphrates", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hebrew, Perath; Assyrian, Purat; Persian cuneiform, Ufratush, whence Greek Euphrates, meaning “sweet water.” The Assyrian name means “the stream,” or “the great stream.” It is generally called in the "}, {"id": "card_n_cae2e0d5ad4a", "title": "Easton: Salt", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Used to season food (Job 6:6), and mixed with the fodder of cattle (Isa. 30:24, “clean;” in marg. of R.V. “salted”). All meat-offerings were seasoned with salt (Lev. 2:13). To eat salt with one is to "}, {"id": "card_n_b003bb46e6aa", "title": "Easton: Blood", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) As food, prohibited in Gen. 9:4, where the use of animal food is first allowed. Comp. Deut. 12:23; Lev. 3:17; 7:26; 17:10-14. The injunction to abstain from blood is renewed in the decree of the "}, {"id": "card_c_4403ae87d597", "title": "Easton: Week ↔ Easton: Works, Covenant of", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_concept_u_z — 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_b3a0461d2c00", "title": "Easton: Works, Covenant of ↔ Easton: Wine-press", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_concept_u_z — 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_7be317a88092", "title": "Easton: Azur and Azzur", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Helper. (1.) The father of Hananiah, a false prophet (Jer. 28:1). (2.) The father of Jaazaniah (Ezek. 11:1). (3.) One of those who sealed the covenant with Jehovah on the return from Babylon (Neh. 10:"}, {"id": "card_n_2c24d977d323", "title": "Easton: Hanan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Merciful. (1.) A Benjamite (1 Chr. 8:23). (2.) One of David’s heroes (1 Chr. 11:43). (3.) Jer. 35:4. (4.) A descendant of Saul (1 Chr. 8:38). (5.) One of the Nethinim (Ezra 2:46). (6.) One of the Levi"}, {"id": "card_n_72b184230e41", "title": "Easton: Jegar-sahadutha", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Pile of testimony, the Aramaic or Syriac name which Laban gave to the pile of stones erected as a memorial of the covenant between him and Jacob (Gen. 31:47), who, however, called it in Hebrew by an e"}, {"id": "card_n_68ff70c54dd2", "title": "Easton: Faithful", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As a designation of Christians, means full of faith, trustful, and not simply trustworthy (Acts 10:45; 16:1; 2 Cor. 6:15; Col. 1:2; 1 Tim. 4:3, 12; 5:16; 6:2; Titus 1:6; Eph. 1:1; 1 Cor. 4:17, etc.). "}, {"id": "card_n_f4685468084a", "title": "Easton: Surety", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who becomes responsible for another. Christ is the surety of the better covenant (Heb. 7:22). In him we have the assurance that all its provisions will be fully and faithfully carried out. Solomon"}, {"id": "card_n_ab0582ac501f", "title": "Easton: Footstool", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Connected with a throne (2 Chr. 9:18). Jehovah symbolically dwelt in the holy place between the cherubim above the ark of the covenant. The ark was his footstool (1 Chr. 28:2; Ps. 99:5; 132:7). And as"}]}