{"query": "Easton: Kings, The Books of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_ac7a1b4d5c0d", "title": "Easton: Kings, The Books of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The two books of Kings formed originally but one book in the Hebrew Scriptures. The present division into two books was first made by the LXX., which now, with the Vulgate, numbers them as the third a"}, {"id": "card_n_048bd5e3c62d", "title": "Easton: Samuel, Books of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The LXX. translators regarded the books of Samuel and of Kings as forming one continuous history, which they divided into four books, which they called “Books of the Kingdom.” The Vulgate version foll"}, {"id": "card_n_3f25971a39e2", "title": "Easton: Chronicles, Books of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The two books were originally one. They bore the title in the Massoretic Hebrew Dibre hayyamim, i.e., “Acts of the Days.” This title was rendered by Jerome in his Latin version “Chronicon,” and hence "}, {"id": "card_c_2deebf9a7846", "title": "Easton: Kings, The Books of cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 24:18; 2 Kings 4:29; 2 Kings 1:8 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_071a7af4a84a", "title": "Easton: Bible", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Bible, the English form of the Greek name Biblia, meaning “books,” the name which in the fifth century began to be given to the entire collection of sacred books, the “Library of Divine Revelation.” T"}, {"id": "card_c_m_5bc20cfabf57", "title": "Easton: Lapping shares a section with Easton: Kings, The Books of", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Lapping shares a section with Easton: Kings, The Books of."}, {"id": "card_c_m_3aef1fe8c789", "title": "Easton: Lubims shares a section with Easton: Kings, The Books of", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Lubims shares a section with Easton: Kings, The Books of."}, {"id": "card_c_3563b1dc83dd", "title": "Easton: Kings, The Books of cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 11:41 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_m_aaac5c7d109d", "title": "Easton: Kings, The Books of cites Jeremiah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Kings, The Books of cites Jeremiah."}, {"id": "card_c_m_2538eb3fa4b2", "title": "Easton: Kings, The Books of cites Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Kings, The Books of cites Matthew."}, {"id": "card_n_d80fbe8b0d63", "title": "Easton: Apocrypha", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hidden, spurious, the name given to certain ancient books which found a place in the LXX. and Latin Vulgate versions of the Old Testament, and were appended to all the great translations made from the"}, {"id": "card_n_4150298825ee", "title": "Easton: Hebrew language", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The language of the Hebrew nation, and that in which the Old Testament is written, with the exception of a few portions in Chaldee. In the Old Testament it is only spoken of as “Jewish” (2 Kings 18:26"}, {"id": "card_n_1e82be6143cd", "title": "Easton: Copper", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Derived from the Greek kupros (the island of Cyprus), called “Cyprian brass,” occurs only in the Authorized Version in Ezra 8:27. Elsewhere the Hebrew word (nehosheth) is improperly rendered “brass,” "}, {"id": "card_n_3061d3b08d1f", "title": "Easton: Baal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lord. (1.) The name appropriated to the principal male god of the Phoenicians. It is found in several places in the plural BAALIM (Judg. 2:11; 10:10; 1 Kings 18:18; Jer. 2:23; Hos. 2:17). Baal is iden"}, {"id": "card_n_6bd81caffadd", "title": "Easton: Syriac", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(2 Kings 18:26; Ezra 4:7; Dan. 2:4), more correctly rendered “Aramaic,” including both the Syriac and the Chaldee languages. In the New Testament there are several Syriac words, such as “Eloi, Eloi, l"}, {"id": "card_n_8542461789d0", "title": "Easton: Zion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sunny; height, one of the eminences on which Jerusalem was built. It was surrounded on all sides, except the north, by deep valleys, that of the Tyropoeon (q.v.) separating it from Moriah (q.v.), whic"}, {"id": "card_n_bd79da358d27", "title": "Easton: Exile", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Of the kingdom of Israel. In the time of Pekah, Tiglath-pileser II. carried away captive into Assyria (2 Kings 15:29; comp. Isa. 10:5, 6) a part of the inhabitants of Galilee and of Gilead (B.C. "}, {"id": "card_n_19006cf8f9e2", "title": "Easton: Forest", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ya’ar, meaning a dense wood, from its luxuriance. Thus all the great primeval forests of Syria (Eccl. 2:6; Isa. 44:14; Jer. 5:6; Micah 5:8). The most extensive was the trans-Jordanic forest of Ep"}, {"id": "card_n_8d4a34825837", "title": "Easton: Pentateuch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The five-fold volume, consisting of the first five books of the Old Testament. This word does not occur in Scripture, nor is it certainly known when the roll was thus divided into five portions Genesi"}, {"id": "card_n_631cc9e6955b", "title": "Easton: Captivity", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Of Israel. The kingdom of the ten tribes was successively invaded by several Assyrian kings. Pul (q.v.) imposed a tribute on Menahem of a thousand talents of silver (2 Kings 15:19, 20; 1 Chr. 5:2"}]}