{"query": "Easton: Matthew", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_9472ccf3448e", "title": "Easton: Immanuel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God with us. In the Old Testament it occurs only in Isa. 7:14 and 8:8. Most Christian interpreters have regarded these words as directly and exclusively a prophecy of our Saviour, an interpretation bo", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_289eee839607", "title": "Easton: Alphaeus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The father of James the Less, the apostle and writer of the epistle (Matt. 10:3; Mark 3:18; Luke 6:15; Acts 1:13), and the husband of Mary (John 19:25). The Hebrew form of this name is Cleopas, o", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_enc_easton_matthew", "title": "Matthew", "shelf": "encyclopedia", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Gift of God, a common Jewish name after the Exile. He was the son of Alphaeus, and was a publican or tax-gatherer at Capernaum. On one occasion Jesus, coming up from the side of the lake, passed the c", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897, public domain)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_spine_comm_matthew_henry", "title": "Matthew Henry's Commentary (An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments)", "shelf": "spine", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Matthew Henry's Commentary (An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments) — 4,124 verse expositions in the keeping, the commentator's own words, verbatim and attributed. Matthew Henry (1662–1714). Publ", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Matthew Henry's Commentary (An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments) — Public Domain (Public Domain Mark 1.0)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_7e8c284d8878", "title": "Matthew 28:20", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.", "authority_tier": "words_in_red", "source": "World English Bible · Matthew 28:20", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_fae60064315b", "title": "Matthew 16:24", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.", "authority_tier": "words_in_red", "source": "World English Bible · Matthew 16:24", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_bc5824943d27", "title": "Easton: Timnath", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Gen. 38:12, 14. (1.) Heb. Timnathah, which is appropriately rendered in the Revised Version, Timnah, a town in Judah. (2.) The town where Samson sojourned, probably identical with “Timnah” (1) (Judg. 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(See OMER.) “Half a homer,” a grain measure mentioned only in Hos. 3:2.", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_c106342b45b4", "title": "Easton: Godliness", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The whole of practical piety (1 Tim. 4:8; 2 Pet. 1:6). “It supposes knowledge, veneration, affection, dependence, submission, gratitude, and obedience.” In 1 Tim. 3:16 it denotes the substance of reve", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_2b99f8640e2b", "title": "Easton: Dathan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Welled; belonging to a fountain, a son of Eliab, a Reubenite, who joined Korah (q.v.) in his conspiracy, and with his accomplices was swallowed up by an earthquake (Num. 16:1; 26:9; Deut. 11:6; Ps. 10", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_9a8d22adb8b7", "title": "Easton: Meni", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Isa. 65:11, marg. (A.V., “that number;” R.V., “destiny”), probably an idol which the captive Israelites worshipped after the example of the Babylonians. It may have been a symbol of destiny. LXX., tuc", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_22981a8ca6fa", "title": "Easton: Jokmeam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Gathering of the people, a city of Ephraim, which was given with its suburbs to the Levites (1 Chr. 6:68). It lay somewhere in the Jordan valley (1 Kings 4:12, R.V.; but in A.V. incorrectly “Jokneam”)", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_349d058a7df5", "title": "Easton: Gebim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cisterns, (rendered “pits,” Jer. 14:3; “locusts,” Isa. 33:4), a small place north of Jerusalem, whose inhabitants fled at the approach of the Assyrian army (Isa. 10:31). It is probably the modern el-I", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_37a1c0cd5363", "title": "Easton: Doleful creatures", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(occurring only Isa. 13:21. Heb. ochim, i.e., “shrieks;” hence “howling animals”), a general name for screech owls (howlets), which occupy the desolate palaces of Babylon. Some render the word “hyaena", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_46b0184d7dd3", "title": "Easton: Stater", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Greek word rendered “piece of money” (Matt. 17:27, A.V.; and “shekel” in R.V.). It was equal to two didrachmas (“tribute money,” 17:24), or four drachmas, and to about 2s. 6d. of our money. (See SHEKE", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_92ba365e1fc6", "title": "Easton: Servitor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Occurs only in 2 Kings 4:43, Authorized Version (R.V., “servant”). The Hebrew word there rendered “servitor” is elsewhere rendered “minister,” “servant” (Ex. 24:13; 33:11). Probably Gehazi, the person", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_9b0bb1e08e75", "title": "Easton: Backbite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In Ps. 15:3, the rendering of a word which means to run about tattling, calumniating; in Prov. 25:23, secret talebearing or slandering; in Rom. 1:30 and 2 Cor. 12:20, evil-speaking, maliciously defami", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_ae478a30c088", "title": "Easton: Lubims", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The inhabitants of a thirsty or scorched land; the Lybians, an African nation under tribute to Egypt (2 Chr. 12:3; 16:8). Their territory was apparently near Egypt. They were probably the Mizraite Leh", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_f56ff4f41839", "title": "Easton: Unction", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 John 2:20, 27; R.V., “anointing”). Kings, prophets, and priests were anointed, in token of receiving divine grace. All believers are, in a secondary sense, what Christ was in a primary sense, “the ", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_45a9ed6771ea", "title": "Easton: Artillery", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "1 Sam. 20:40, (Heb. keli, meaning “apparatus;” here meaning collectively any missile weapons, as arrows and lances. In Revised Version, “weapons”). This word is derived from the Latin artillaria = equ", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}]}