{"query": "Easton: Greek", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_89a43780807f", "title": "Easton: Greek", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Found only in the New Testament, where a distinction is observed between “Greek” and “Grecian” (q.v.). The former is (1) a Greek by race (Acts 16:1-3; 18:17; Rom. 1:14), or (2) a Gentile as opposed to", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_6700c8576903", "title": "Easton: Hymn", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Occurs only Eph. 5:19 and Col. 3:16. The verb to “sing an hymn” occurs Matt. 26:30 and Mark 14:26. The same Greek word is rendered to “sing praises” Acts 16:25 (R.V., “sing hymns”) and Heb. 2:12. The ", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_16e2e3ffa90f", "title": "Easton: Grecians", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hellenists, Greek-Jews; Jews born in a foreign country, and thus did not speak Hebrew (Acts 6:1; 9:29), nor join in the Hebrew services of the Jews in Palestine, but had synagogues of their own in Jer", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_3cfe5051d3f2", "title": "Easton: Stoics", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A sect of Greek philosophers at Athens, so called from the Greek word stoa i.e., a “porch” or “portico,” where they have been called “the Pharisees of Greek paganism.” The founder of the Stoics was Ze", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_89403baca699", "title": "Easton: Mercurius", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hermes (i.e., “the speaker”) of the Greeks (Acts 14:12), a heathen God represented as the constant attendant of Jupiter, and the god of eloquence. The inhabitants of Lystra took Paul for this god ", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_aa64616387f0", "title": "Easton: Gentiles", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb., usually in plural, goyim), meaning in general all nations except the Jews. In course of time, as the Jews began more and more to pride themselves on their peculiar privileges, it acquired unple", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_c_070f05aa6eb8", "title": "Easton: Greek ↔ Easton: Fairs", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_concept_e_h — a structural sibling link restored from 1.0's nesting (re-verified same section live). 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The father of the apostles Peter (John 21:15-17) and Andrew; but the reading should be (also in 1:42), as in the Revised Version, “John,” ins", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_50d049c966c5", "title": "Easton: Elephant", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Not found in Scripture except indirectly in the original Greek word (elephantinos) translated “of ivory” in Rev. 18:12, and in the Hebrew word (shenhabim, meaning “elephant’s tooth”) rendered “ivory” ", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_9d4e7f29ce89", "title": "Easton: Orphans", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Lam. 5:3), i.e., desolate and without protectors. The word occurs only here. In John 14:18 the word there rendered “comfortless” (R.V., “desolate;” marg., “orphans”) properly means “orphans.” The sam", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_aa9dfb83a686", "title": "Easton: Augustus band", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Acts 27:1.: literally, of Sebaste, the Greek form of Augusta, the name given to Caesarea in honour of Augustus Caesar). Probably this “band” or cohort consisted of Samaritan soldiers belonging to Cae", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_b8db1abf3beb", "title": "Easton: Eunice", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Happily conquering, the mother of Timothy, a believing Jewess, but married to a Greek (Acts 16:1). She trained her son from his childhood in the knowledge of the Scriptures (2 Tim. 3:15). She was dist", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_37aaee6f8963", "title": "Easton: Consolation of Israel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A name for the Messiah in common use among the Jews, probably suggested by Isa. 12:1; 49:13. The Greek word thus rendered (Luke 2:25, paraklesis) is kindred to that translated “Comforter” in John 14:1", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_6fb24b62922f", "title": "Easton: Cage", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. kelub’, Jer. 5:27, marg. “coop;” rendered “basket” in Amos 8:1), a basket of wicker-work in which birds were placed after being caught. In Rev. 18:2 it is the rendering of the Greek phulake, pro", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_b8cf5d2e2d64", "title": "Easton: Tyrannus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Prince, a Greek rhetorician, in whose “school” at Ephesus Paul disputed daily for the space of two years with those who came to him (Acts 19:9). Some have supposed that he was a Jew, and that his “sch", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_c_64adead44433", "title": "Easton: A ↔ Easton: Ahiezer", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_concept_a_d — a structural sibling link restored from 1.0's nesting (re-verified same section live). 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