{"query": "Easton: Marriage", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_cd52e85ccf7b", "title": "Easton: Marriage", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was instituted in Paradise when man was in innocence (Gen. 2:18-24). Here we have its original charter, which was confirmed by our Lord, as the basis on which all regulations are to be framed (Matt. 1"}, {"id": "card_c_m_fa035c8dd3dd", "title": "Easton: Moon shares a section with Easton: Marriage-feasts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Moon shares a section with Easton: Marriage-feasts."}, {"id": "card_c_m_799b536b64d4", "title": "Matthew cites Easton: Marriage", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Matthew cites Easton: Marriage."}, {"id": "card_c_m_73e476638e93", "title": "Matthew cites Easton: Marriage-feasts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Matthew cites Easton: Marriage-feasts."}, {"id": "card_n_ba4002bbeb64", "title": "Easton: Samson", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of the sun, the son of Manoah, born at Zorah. The narrative of his life is given in Judg. 13-16. He was a “Nazarite unto God” from his birth, the first Nazarite mentioned in Scripture (Judg. 13:3-5; c"}, {"id": "card_n_e06a6ad551ae", "title": "Easton: Espouse", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(2 Sam. 3:14), to betroth. The espousal was a ceremony of betrothing, a formal agreement between the parties then coming under obligation for the purpose of marriage. Espousals are in the East frequen"}, {"id": "card_n_d0a36622cd97", "title": "Easton: Covenant", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A contract or agreement between two parties. In the Old Testament the Hebrew word berith is always thus translated. Berith is derived from a root which means “to cut,” and hence a covenant is a “cutti"}, {"id": "card_n_e28196bff4c5", "title": "Easton: Marriage-feasts", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(John 2:1-11) “lasted usually for a whole week; but the cost of such prolonged rejoicing is very small in the East. The guests sit round the great bowl or bowls on the floor, the meal usually consisti"}, {"id": "card_n_fc3fc12b7863", "title": "Easton: Achsah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Anklet, Caleb’s only daughter (1 Chr. 2:49). She was offered in marriage to the man who would lead an attack on the city of Debir, or Kirjath-sepher. This was done by Othniel (q.v.), who accordingly o"}, {"id": "card_n_31c4df0ae514", "title": "Easton: Levirate Law", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From Latin levir, “a husband’s brother,” the name of an ancient custom ordained by Moses, by which, when an Israelite died without issue, his surviving brother was required to marry the widow, so as t"}, {"id": "card_n_4557c03071b5", "title": "Easton: Betroth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To promise “by one’s truth.” Men and women were betrothed when they were engaged to be married. This usually took place a year or more before marriage. From the time of betrothal the woman was regarde"}, {"id": "card_n_e0ef05466040", "title": "Easton: Laban", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "White. (1.) The son of Bethuel, who was the son of Nahor, Abraham’s brother. He lived at Haran in Mesopotamia. His sister Rebekah was Isaac’s wife (Gen. 24). Jacob, one of the sons of this marriage, f"}, {"id": "card_n_1ff7f4720044", "title": "Easton: Hobab", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Beloved, the Kenite, has been usually identified with Jethro (q.v.), Ex. 18:5, 27; comp. Num. 10:29, 30. In Judg. 4:11, the word rendered “father-in-law” means properly any male relative by marriage ("}, {"id": "card_n_51ec7b898589", "title": "Easton: Eth-baal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "With Baal, a king of Sidon (B.C. 940-908), father of Jezebel, who was the wife of Ahab (1 Kings 16:31). He is said to have been also a priest of Astarte, whose worship was closely allied to that of Ba"}, {"id": "card_n_7e94c124473f", "title": "Easton: Adriel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Flock of God, the son of Barzillai, the Meholathite, to whom Saul gave in marriage his daughter Merab (1 Sam. 18:19). The five sons that sprang from this union were put to death by the Gibeonites (2 S"}, {"id": "card_n_27a3cd535c16", "title": "Easton: Herodias", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Matt. 14:3-11; Mark 6:17-28; Luke 3:19), the daughter of Aristobulus and Bernice. While residing at Rome with her husband Herod Philip I. and her daughter, Herod Antipas fell in with her during one o"}, {"id": "card_n_bc0cf9f15d01", "title": "Easton: Lamp", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) That part of the candle-sticks of the tabernacle and the temple which bore the light (Ex. 25:37; 1 Kings 7:49; 2 Chr. 4:20; 13:11; Zech. 4:2). Their form is not described. Olive oil was generally"}, {"id": "card_n_df9cfe27f44d", "title": "Easton: Divorce", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The dissolution of the marriage tie was regulated by the Mosaic law (Deut. 24:1-4). The Jews, after the Captivity, were reguired to dismiss the foreign women they had married contrary to the law (Ezra"}, {"id": "card_n_e7e1ce623223", "title": "Easton: Lamech", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The strikerdown; the wild man. (1.) The fifth in descent from Cain. He was the first to violate the primeval ordinance of marriage (Gen. 4:18-24). His address to his two wives, Adah and Zillah (4:23, "}, {"id": "card_n_e336d82739e0", "title": "Easton: Mystery", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The calling of the Gentiles into the Christian Church, so designated (Eph. 1:9, 10; 3:8-11; Col. 1:25-27); a truth undiscoverable except by revelation, long hid, now made manifest. The resurrection of"}]}