{"query": "Easton: Media", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_7199674e79dd", "title": "Easton: Media", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. Madai, which is rendered in the Authorized Version (1) “Madai,” Gen. 10:2; (2) “Medes,” 2 Kings 17:6; 18:11; (3) “Media,” Esther 1:3; 10:2; Isa. 21:2; Dan. 8:20; (4) “Mede,” only in Dan. 11:1. We"}, {"id": "card_c_m_3855469d9b42", "title": "Easton: Media cites Isaiah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Media cites Isaiah."}, {"id": "card_n_953993475f68", "title": "Easton: Ahasuerus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are three kings designated by this name in Scripture. (1.) The father of Darius the Mede, mentioned in Dan. 9:1. This was probably the Cyaxares I. known by this name in profane history, the king"}, {"id": "card_n_e2db482e6f53", "title": "Easton: Halah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A district of Media to which captive Israelites were transported by the Assyrian kings (2 Kings 17:6; 18:11; 1 Chr. 5:26). It lay along the banks of the upper Khabur, from its source to its junction w"}, {"id": "card_n_2ef422fd8d78", "title": "Easton: Parthians", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Were present in Jerusalem at Pentecost (Acts 2:9). Parthia lay on the east of Media and south of Hyrcania, which separated it from the Caspian Sea. It corresponded with the western half of the modern "}, {"id": "card_n_ac226270abc9", "title": "Easton: Mede", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. Madai), a Median or inhabitant of Media (Dan. 11:1). In Gen. 10:2 the Hebrew word occurs in the list of the sons of Japheth. But probably this is an ethnic and not a personal name, and denotes s"}, {"id": "card_n_93894931e302", "title": "Easton: Northward", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. tsaphon), a “hidden” or “dark place,” as opposed to the sunny south (Deut. 3:27). A Hebrew in speaking of the points of the compass was considered as always having his face to the east, and henc"}, {"id": "card_n_565c275bb8be", "title": "Easton: Bdellium", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Occurs only in Gen. 2:12, where it designates a product of the land of Havilah; and in Num. 11:7, where the manna is likened to it in colour. It was probably an aromatic gum like balsam which exuded f"}, {"id": "card_n_ee84cb33910a", "title": "Easton: Achmetha", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ezra 6:2), called Ecbatana by classical writers, the capital of northern Media. Here was the palace which was the residence of the old Median monarchs, and of Cyrus and Cambyses. In the time of Ezra,"}, {"id": "card_c_0a9ae37f39d4", "title": "Easton: Chebar ↔ Easton: Media", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both cite 2kin 17:6 — a shared-scripture cross-reference computed in 1.0 and re-verified live in both cards."}, {"id": "card_c_b70397756aa6", "title": "Easton: Media ↔ Easton: Exile", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both cite 2kin 17:6 — a shared-scripture cross-reference computed in 1.0 and re-verified live in both cards."}, {"id": "card_c_28290a45ab56", "title": "Easton: Media ↔ Easton: Israel, Kingdom of", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both cite 2kin 17:6 — a shared-scripture cross-reference computed in 1.0 and re-verified live in both cards."}, {"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_4c3273cdf559", "title": "Easton: Dispersion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. diaspora, “scattered,” James 1:1; 1 Pet. 1:1) of the Jews. At various times, and from the operation of divers causes, the Jews were separated and scattered into foreign countries “to the outmost "}, {"id": "card_n_a426de3eb5a1", "title": "Easton: Nebuchadnezzar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In the Babylonian orthography Nabu-kudur-uzur, which means “Nebo, protect the crown!” or the “frontiers.” In an inscription he styles himself “Nebo’s favourite.” He was the son and successor of Nabopo"}, {"id": "card_n_3121e5a544cb", "title": "Easton: Persia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An ancient empire, extending from the Indus to Thrace, and from the Caspian Sea to the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. The Persians were originally a Medic tribe which settled in Persia, on the eastern "}, {"id": "card_n_cb74eecb6f37", "title": "Easton: Cyrus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. Ko’resh), the celebrated “King of Persia” (Elam) who was conqueror of Babylon, and issued the decree of liberation to the Jews (Ezra 1:1, 2). He was the son of Cambyses, the prince of Persia, an"}, {"id": "card_n_d02fc584c4c4", "title": "Easton: Eden", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Delight. (1.) The garden in which our first parents dewlt (Gen. 2:8-17). No geographical question has been so much discussed as that bearing on its site. It has been placed in Armenia, in the region w"}, {"id": "card_c_c23931bbfa47", "title": "Easton: Media references Isaiah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Isaiah. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_9e860bc3c73d", "title": "Easton: Media cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 17:6 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}]}