{"query": "Easton: Jew", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_3963b9f297d4", "title": "Easton: Jew", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name derived from the patriarch Judah, at first given to one belonging to the tribe of Judah or to the separate kingdom of Judah (2 Kings 16:6; 25:25; Jer. 32:12; 38:19; 40:11; 41:3), in contradis"}, {"id": "card_c_m_a10b321aa7ea", "title": "Easton: Jaw-bone shares a section with Easton: Jew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Jaw-bone shares a section with Easton: Jew."}, {"id": "card_c_m_505be7263314", "title": "Easton: Judgments of God shares a section with Easton: Jew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Judgments of God shares a section with Easton: Jew."}, {"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"}, {"id": "card_c_m_ae026b2cbb71", "title": "Easton: Jew cites Hebrews", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Jew cites Hebrews."}, {"id": "card_n_dfd15e83af3f", "title": "Easton: Tribute", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A tax imposed by a king on his subjects (2 Sam. 20:24; 1 Kings 4:6; Rom. 13:6). In Matt. 17:24-27 the word denotes the temple rate (the “didrachma,” the “half-shekel,” as rendered by the R.V.) which w"}, {"id": "card_n_e3616f871091", "title": "Easton: Maccabees, Books of the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There were originally five books of the Maccabees. The first contains a history of the war of independence, commencing (B.C. 175) in a series of patriotic struggles against the tyranny of Antiochus Ep"}, {"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"}, {"id": "card_n_b5ed17286231", "title": "Easton: Enmity", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Deep-rooted hatred. “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed” (Gen. 3:15). The friendship of the world is “enmity with God” (James 4:4; 1 John 2:15, 16). The “carna"}, {"id": "card_c_3e14d26753d5", "title": "Easton: Jew ↔ Easton: Edom", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both cite 2kin 16:6 — a shared-scripture cross-reference computed in 1.0 and re-verified live in both cards."}, {"id": "card_c_cc312c770088", "title": "Easton: Ezion-geber ↔ Easton: Jew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both cite 2kin 16:6 — a shared-scripture cross-reference computed in 1.0 and re-verified live in both cards."}, {"id": "card_n_acaa5327593f", "title": "Easton: Carpenter", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An artificer in stone, iron, and copper, as well as in wood (2 Sam. 5:11; 1 Chr. 14:1; Mark 6:3). The tools used by carpenters are mentioned in 1 Sam. 13:19, 20; Judg. 4:21; Isa. 10:15; 44:13. It was "}, {"id": "card_n_1f0a211c571e", "title": "Easton: Haman", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(of Persian origin), magnificent, the name of the vizier (i.e., the prime minister) of the Persian king Ahasuerus (Esther 3:1, etc.). He is called an “Agagite,” which seems to denote that he was desce"}, {"id": "card_n_0c498c3c5dcd", "title": "Easton: Stranger", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word generally denotes a person from a foreign land residing in Palestine. Such persons enjoyed many privileges in common with the Jews, but still were separate from them. The relation of the Jew"}, {"id": "card_n_ef42eceb1b0a", "title": "Easton: Sceva", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An implement, a Jew, chief of the priests at Ephesus (Acts 19:13-16); i.e., the head of one of the twenty-four courses of the house of Levi. He had seven sons, who “took upon them to call over them wh"}, {"id": "card_n_72c137732083", "title": "Easton: Alexander", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Man-defender. (1.) A relative of Annas the high priest, present when Peter and John were examined before the Sanhedrim (Acts 4:6). (2.) A man whose father, Simon the Cyrenian, bore the cross of Christ"}, {"id": "card_n_ae723d9dc276", "title": "Easton: Beard", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The mode of wearing it was definitely prescribed to the Jews (Lev. 19:27; 21:5). Hence the import of Ezekiel’s (5:1-4) description of the “razor” i.e., the agents of an angry providence being used aga"}, {"id": "card_n_2a0709414d64", "title": "Easton: Taxes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First mentioned in the command (Ex. 30:11-16) that every Jew from twenty years and upward should pay an annual tax of “half a shekel for an offering to the Lord.” This enactment was faithfully observe"}, {"id": "card_n_1f1e791cf4af", "title": "Easton: Apollos", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Jew “born at Alexandria,” a man well versed in the Scriptures and eloquent (Acts 18:24; R.V., “learned”). He came to Ephesus (about A.D. 49), where he spake “boldly” in the synagogue (18:26), althou"}, {"id": "card_n_9204e18a473a", "title": "Easton: Simon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The abbreviated form of Simeon. (1.) One of the twelve apostles, called the Canaanite (Matt. 10:4; Mark 3:18). This word “Canaanite” does not mean a native of Canaan, but is derived from the Syriac wo"}]}