{"query": "Easton: Greece", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_45c76ed549cc", "title": "Easton: Greece", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Orginally consisted of the four provinces of Macedonia, Epirus, Achaia, and Peleponnesus. In Acts 20:2 it designates only the Roman province of Macedonia. Greece was conquered by the Romans B.C. 146. "}, {"id": "card_c_m_eeb48a73c01e", "title": "Easton: Eliel shares a section with Easton: Greece", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Eliel shares a section with Easton: Greece."}, {"id": "card_c_m_dcea12040d7b", "title": "Easton: Greece cites Romans", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Greece cites Romans."}, {"id": "card_c_m_6d60af9f3b2c", "title": "Easton: Greece cites Hebrews", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Greece cites Hebrews."}, {"id": "card_n_ad613edacd25", "title": "Easton: Achaia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name originally of a narrow strip of territory in Greece, on the north-west of the Peloponnesus. Subsequently it was applied by the Romans to the whole Peloponnesus, now called the Morea, and the "}, {"id": "card_n_65c045a22277", "title": "Easton: Corinth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Grecian city, on the isthmus which joins the Peloponnesus to the mainland of Greece. It is about 48 miles west of Athens. The ancient city was destroyed by the Romans (B.C. 146), and that mentioned "}, {"id": "card_n_ecf3eeb1d49d", "title": "Easton: Elishah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The oldest of the four sons of Javan (Gen. 10:4), whose descendants peopled Greece. It has been supposed that Elishah’s descendants peopled the Peloponnesus, which was known by the name of Elis. This "}, {"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_0ab4301164b0", "title": "Easton: Miletus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Miletum, 2 Tim. 4:20), a seaport town and the ancient capital of Ionia, about 36 miles south of Ephesus. On his voyage from Greece to Syria, Paul touched at this port, and delivered that noble and pa"}, {"id": "card_n_2c46ba442094", "title": "Easton: Javan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The fourth “son” of Japheth (Gen. 10:2), whose descendants settled in Greece, i.e., Ionia, which bears the name of Javan in Hebrew. Alexander the Great is called the “king of Javan” (rendered “Gr"}, {"id": "card_c_216fd3c0505c", "title": "Easton: Greece ↔ Easton: Illyricum", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both cite act 20:2 — a shared-scripture cross-reference computed in 1.0 and re-verified live in both cards."}, {"id": "card_c_7101f48efe14", "title": "Easton: Greece ↔ Easton: Galatians, Epistle to", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both cite act 20:2 — a shared-scripture cross-reference computed in 1.0 and re-verified live in both cards."}, {"id": "card_c_8c58d306162a", "title": "Easton: Greece ↔ Easton: Corinthians, Second Epistle to the", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both cite act 20:2 — a shared-scripture cross-reference computed in 1.0 and re-verified live in both cards."}, {"id": "card_n_e966d7784658", "title": "Easton: Macedonia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In New Testament times, was a Roman province lying north of Greece. It was governed by a propraetor with the title of proconsul. Paul was summoned by the vision of the “man of Macedonia” to preach the"}, {"id": "card_n_a29a0c47b9e4", "title": "Easton: Timothy, First Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Paul in this epistle speaks of himself as having left Ephesus for Macedonia (1:3), and hence not Laodicea, as mentioned in the subscription; but probably Philippi, or some other city in that region, w"}, {"id": "card_n_40c99943f562", "title": "Easton: Tadmor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Palm, a city built by Solomon “in the wilderness” (2 Chr. 8:4). In 1 Kings 9:18, where the word occurs in the Authorized Version, the Hebrew text and the Revised Version read “Tamar,” which is properl"}, {"id": "card_n_953993475f68", "title": "Easton: Ahasuerus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are three kings designated by this name in Scripture. (1.) The father of Darius the Mede, mentioned in Dan. 9:1. This was probably the Cyaxares I. known by this name in profane history, the king"}, {"id": "card_n_fc32298ac1e8", "title": "Easton: Tyre", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A rock, now es-Sur; an ancient Phoenician city, about 23 miles, in a direct line, north of Acre, and 20 south of Sidon. Sidon was the oldest Phoenician city, but Tyre had a longer and more illustrious"}, {"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_n_88c46b589551", "title": "Easton: Romans, Epistle to the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This epistle was probably written at Corinth. Phoebe (Rom. 16:1) of Cenchrea conveyed it to Rome, and Gaius of Corinth entertained the apostle at the time of his writing it (16:23; 1 Cor. 1:14), and E"}]}