{"query": "Easton: Money", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_71d82ac3286f", "title": "Easton: Money", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of uncoined money the first notice we have is in the history of Abraham (Gen. 13:2; 20:16; 24:35). Next, this word is used in connection with the purchase of the cave of Machpelah (23:16), and again i"}, {"id": "card_c_m_bde39b6644c4", "title": "Easton: Meni shares a section with Easton: Money-changer", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Meni shares a section with Easton: Money-changer."}, {"id": "card_c_m_955b3f4342ab", "title": "Easton: Og shares a section with Easton: Money-changer", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Og shares a section with Easton: Money-changer."}, {"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"}, {"id": "card_c_m_27fd86cd7cd4", "title": "Easton: Peter, First Epistle of shares a section with Easton: Money", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Peter, First Epistle of shares a section with Easton: Money."}, {"id": "card_n_10609ac53d2c", "title": "Easton: Pound", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A weight. Heb. maneh, equal to 100 shekels (1 Kings 10:17; Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:71, 72). Gr. litra, equal to about 12 oz. avoirdupois (John 12:3; 19:39). (2.) A sum of money; the Gr. mna or mina (Lu"}, {"id": "card_n_6d7d74577f4e", "title": "Easton: Kesitah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gen. 33:19, R.V., marg., a Hebrew word, rendered, A.V., pl. “pieces of money,” marg., “lambs;” Josh. 24:32, “pieces of silver;” Job 42:11, “piece of money”). The kesitah was probably a piece of money"}, {"id": "card_n_9b0736f20d65", "title": "Easton: Money-changer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Matt. 21:12; Mark 11:15; John 2:15). Every Israelite from twenty years and upwards had to pay (Ex. 30:13-15) into the sacred treasury half a shekel every year as an offering to Jehovah, and that in t"}, {"id": "card_c_m_7b21de12282c", "title": "Hebrews cites Easton: Money", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hebrews cites Easton: Money."}, {"id": "card_n_a67b94794cd8", "title": "Easton: Pieces", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1) of silver. In Ps. 68:30 denotes “fragments,” and not properly money. In 1 Sam. 2:36 (Heb. agorah), properly a “small sum” as wages, weighed rather than coined. Josh. 24:32 (Heb. kesitah, q.v.), su"}, {"id": "card_c_m_47394b6639f7", "title": "Easton: Money-changer cites Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Money-changer cites Matthew."}, {"id": "card_n_4a4852ad9a9e", "title": "Easton: Custom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A tax imposed by the Romans. The tax-gatherers were termed publicans (q.v.), who had their stations at the gates of cities, and in the public highways, and at the place set apart for that purpose, cal"}, {"id": "card_n_112346515522", "title": "Easton: Treasury", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Matt. 27:6; Mark 12:41; John 8:20). It does not appear that there was a separate building so called. The name was given to the thirteen brazen chests, called “trumpets,” from the form of the opening "}, {"id": "card_n_767d65b6fd86", "title": "Easton: Purse", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Gr. balantion, a bag (Luke 10:4; 22:35, 36). (2.) Gr. zone, properly a girdle (Matt. 10:9; Mark 6:8), a money-belt. As to our Lord’s sending forth his disciples without money in their purses, the"}, {"id": "card_n_42889a4da9b2", "title": "Easton: Penny", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. denarion), a silver coin of the value of about 7 1/2d. or 8d. of our present money. It is thus rendered in the New Testament, and is more frequently mentioned than any other coin (Matt. 18:28; 20"}, {"id": "card_n_4d065ee91c5e", "title": "Easton: Bag", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A pocket of a cone-like shape in which Naaman bound two pieces of silver for Gehazi (2 Kings 5:23). The same Hebrew word occurs elsewhere only in Isa. 3:22, where it is rendered “crisping-pins,” "}, {"id": "card_n_b824114e7478", "title": "Easton: Shekel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Weight, the common standard both of weight and value among the Hebrews. It is estimated at 220 English grains, or a little more than half an ounce avoirdupois. The “shekel of the sanctuary” (Ex. 30:13"}, {"id": "card_n_3ffafe2782a1", "title": "Easton: Sepulchre", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First mentioned as purchased by Abraham for Sarah from Ephron the Hittite (Gen. 23:20). This was the “cave of the field of Machpelah,” where also Abraham and Rebekah and Jacob and Leah were burried (7"}, {"id": "card_n_fa9c188fee47", "title": "Easton: Coin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Before the Exile the Jews had no regularly stamped money. They made use of uncoined shekels or talents of silver, which they weighed out (Gen. 23:16; Ex. 38:24; 2 Sam. 18:12). Probably the silver ingo"}, {"id": "card_c_a95923cb9881", "title": "Easton: Meni ↔ Easton: Money-changer", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_concept_m_p — a structural sibling link restored from 1.0's nesting (re-verified same section live). Connects the map so no card is left orphaned."}]}