{"query": "Easton: God", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_71cbf4222dc8", "title": "Easton: Reconcilation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A change from enmity to friendship. It is mutual, i.e., it is a change wrought in both parties who have been at enmity. (1.) In Col. 1:21, 22, the word there used refers to a change wrought in the per"}, {"id": "card_n_ac10a439bca1", "title": "Easton: Son of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The plural, “sons of God,” is used (Gen. 6:2, 4) to denote the pious descendants of Seth. In Job 1:6; 38:7 this name is applied to the angels. Hosea uses the phrase (1:10) to designate the gracious re"}, {"id": "card_n_939087c78d96", "title": "Easton: Bless", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) God blesses his people when he bestows on them some gift temporal or spiritual (Gen. 1:22; 24:35; Job 42:12; Ps. 45:2; 104:24, 35). (2.) We bless God when we thank him for his mercies (Ps. 103:1,"}, {"id": "card_n_b48602ef6dba", "title": "Easton: Creation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“In the beginning” God created, i.e., called into being, all things out of nothing. This creative act on the part of God was absolutely free, and for infinitely wise reasons. The cause of all things e"}, {"id": "card_n_e91e5b22158f", "title": "Easton: Prayer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is converse with God; the intercourse of the soul with God, not in contemplation or meditation, but in direct address to him. Prayer may be oral or mental, occasional or constant, ejaculatory or forma"}, {"id": "card_n_e1df4c77bac5", "title": "Easton: Word, The", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. Logos), one of the titles of our Lord, found only in the writings of John (John 1:1-14; 1 John 1:1; Rev. 19:13). As such, Christ is the revealer of God. His office is to make God known. “No man h"}, {"id": "card_n_0ebb7aaff738", "title": "Easton: Curse", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Denounced by God against the serpent (Gen. 3:14), and against Cain (4:11). These divine maledictions carried their effect with them. Prophetical curses were sometimes pronounced by holy men (Gen. 9:25"}, {"id": "card_n_d969476d3fa7", "title": "Easton: Goodness of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A perfection of his character which he exercises towards his creatures according to their various circumstances and relations (Ps. 145:8, 9; 103:8; 1 John 4:8). Viewed generally, it is benevolence; as"}, {"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_58a1d4f48cb1", "title": "Easton: Face", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Means simply presence, as when it is recorded that Adam and Eve hid themselves from the “face [R.V., ‘presence’] of the Lord God” (Gen. 3:8; comp. Ex. 33:14, 15, where the same Hebrew word is rendered"}, {"id": "card_n_d23c563fb860", "title": "Easton: Glory", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. kabhod; Gr. doxa). (1.) Abundance, wealth, treasure, and hence honour (Ps. 49:12); glory (Gen. 31:1; Matt. 4:8; Rev. 21:24, 26). (2.) Honour, dignity (1 Kings 3:13; Heb. 2:7 1 Pet. 1:24); of God"}, {"id": "card_c_m_897f03bc19df", "title": "Easton: God shares a section with Easton: Gabriel", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: God shares a section with Easton: Gabriel."}, {"id": "card_c_m_b8974249028a", "title": "Easton: God shares a section with Easton: Epaphras", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: God shares a section with Easton: Epaphras."}, {"id": "card_n_6a347eb01bbd", "title": "Easton: Chemosh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The destroyer, subduer, or fish-god, the god of the Moabites (Num. 21:29; Jer. 48:7, 13, 46). The worship of this god, “the abomination of Moab,” was introduced at Jerusalem by Solomon (1 Kings 11:7),"}, {"id": "card_n_4a82d606103e", "title": "Easton: Election of Grace", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Scripture speaks (1) of the election of individuals to office or to honour and privilege, e.g., Abraham, Jacob, Saul, David, Solomon, were all chosen by God for the positions they held; so also we"}, {"id": "card_n_c6267fa0737c", "title": "Easton: Inspiration", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "That extraordinary or supernatural divine influence vouchsafed to those who wrote the Holy Scriptures, rendering their writings infallible. “All scripture is given by inspiration of God” (R.V., “Every"}, {"id": "card_n_14fc23eaa994", "title": "Easton: Prophet", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. nabi, from a root meaning “to bubble forth, as from a fountain,” hence “to utter”, comp. Ps. 45:1). This Hebrew word is the first and the most generally used for a prophet. In the time of Samuel"}, {"id": "card_c_m_060f9e7ffc0c", "title": "Easton: Corban shares a section with Easton: Decrees of God", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Corban shares a section with Easton: Decrees of God."}, {"id": "card_c_m_78a155294091", "title": "Easton: Expiation shares a section with Easton: Foreknowledge of God", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Expiation shares a section with Easton: Foreknowledge of God."}]}