{"query": "Easton: Decrees of God", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_16ea7b0e8a39", "title": "Easton: Decrees of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“The decrees of God are his eternal, unchangeable, holy, wise, and sovereign purpose, comprehending at once all things that ever were or will be in their causes, conditions, successions, and relations", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_lex_h2706", "title": "H2706 — חֹק (choq): statute: decree", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "חֹק (choq), Strong's H2706: statute: decree. : decree 1) statute, ordinance, limit, something prescribed, due 1a) prescribed task 1b) prescribed portion 1c) action prescribed (for oneself), resolve 1d", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "STEPBible TBESH/TBESG — Extended Strong's lexicon (CC-BY, Tyndale House)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_lex_h2710", "title": "H2710 — חָקַק (cha.qaq): to decree", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "חָקַק (cha.qaq), Strong's H2710: to decree. 1) to cut out, decree, inscribe, set, engrave, portray, govern 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cut in 1a2) to cut in or on, cut upon, engrave, inscribe 1a3) to trace, mar", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "STEPBible TBESH/TBESG — Extended Strong's lexicon (CC-BY, Tyndale House)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_lex_h2711", "title": "H2711 — חֵקֶק (che.qeq): decree", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "חֵקֶק (che.qeq), Strong's H2711: decree. decree, resolve, statute, action prescribed Another spelling of choq (חֹק \": decree\" H2706)", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "STEPBible TBESH/TBESG — Extended Strong's lexicon (CC-BY, Tyndale House)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_lex_g1379", "title": "G1379 — δογματίζω (dogmatizō): to decree", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "δογματίζω (dogmatizō), Strong's G1379: to decree. δογματίζω [in LXX: Est.3:9 (כָּתַב ni.), Dan LXX 2:13, 15 (דָּת), I Est.6:34 , 2Ma.10:3 2Mac 15:36 , 3Ma.4:11 * ;] to decree . 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