{"query": "Easton: Persia", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_c_m_d3ac54045ed2", "title": "Easton: Plain shares a section with Easton: Persia", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Plain shares a section with Easton: Persia."}, {"id": "card_c_m_2d78e566917a", "title": "Easton: Persia shares a section with Easton: Nazarene", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Persia shares a section with Easton: Nazarene."}, {"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_8bde6e74f4ef", "title": "Easton: Pethahiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Loosed of the Lord. (1.) The chief of one of the priestly courses (the nineteenth) in the time of David (1 Chr. 24:16). (2.) A Levite (Ezra 10:23). (3.) Neh. 9:5. (4.) A descendant of Judah who had so"}, {"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_250b46e425dd", "title": "Easton: Wise men", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned in Dan. 2:12 included three classes, (1) astrologers, (2) Chaldeans, and (3) soothsayers. The word in the original (hakamim) probably means “medicine men. In Chaldea medicine was only a bran"}, {"id": "card_n_3d3a69056bb1", "title": "Easton: Cup-bearer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An officer of high rank with Egyptian, Persian, Assyrian, and Jewish monarchs. The cup-bearer of the king of Egypt is mentioned in connection with Joseph’s history (Gen. 40:1-21; 41:9). Rabshakeh (q.v"}, {"id": "card_n_1f0a211c571e", "title": "Easton: Haman", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(of Persian origin), magnificent, the name of the vizier (i.e., the prime minister) of the Persian king Ahasuerus (Esther 3:1, etc.). He is called an “Agagite,” which seems to denote that he was desce"}, {"id": "card_n_72ee8398374b", "title": "Easton: Amethyst", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the precious stones in the breastplate of the high priest (Ex. 28:19; 39:12), and in the foundation of the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:20). The ancients thought that this stone had the power of disp"}, {"id": "card_n_d3346d27eaef", "title": "Easton: Zerubbabel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The seed of Babylon, the son of Salathiel or Shealtiel (Hag. 1:1; Zorobabel, Matt. 1:12); called also the son of Pedaiah (1 Chr. 3:17-19), i.e., according to a frequent usage of the word “son;” the gr"}, {"id": "card_n_e4bb5d58f8af", "title": "Easton: Sela", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Se’lah, rock, the capital of Edom, situated in the great valley extending from the Dead Sea to the Red Sea (2 Kings 14:7). It was near Mount Hor, close by the desert of Zin. It is called “the rock” ("}, {"id": "card_n_ebb9ee6aa3ee", "title": "Easton: Malachi", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Messenger or angel, the last of the minor prophets, and the writer of the last book of the Old Testament canon (Mal. 4:4, 5, 6). Nothing is known of him beyond what is contained in his book of prophec"}, {"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_5687975b1ee1", "title": "Easton: Marble", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As a mineral, consists of carbonate of lime, its texture varying from the highly crystalline to the compact. In Esther 1:6 there are four Hebrew words which are rendered marble:, (1.) Shesh, “pillars "}, {"id": "card_n_c509e7979431", "title": "Easton: Sheep", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Are of different varieties. Probably the flocks of Abraham and Isaac were of the wild species found still in the mountain regions of Persia and Kurdistan. After the Exodus, and as a result of intercou"}, {"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_74e9091ce229", "title": "Easton: Darius", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The holder or supporter, the name of several Persian kings. (1.) Darius the Mede (Dan. 11:1), “the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes” (9:1). On the death of Belshazzar the Chaldean he “receiv"}, {"id": "card_n_211a08342363", "title": "Easton: Cush", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Black. (1.) A son, probably the eldest, of Ham, and the father of Nimrod (Gen. 10:8; 1 Chr. 1:10). From him the land of Cush seems to have derived its name. The question of the precise locality of the"}, {"id": "card_n_d37649c81c16", "title": "Easton: Nehemiah, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The author of this book was no doubt Nehemiah himself. There are portions of the book written in the first person (ch. 1-7; 12:27-47, and 13). But there are also portions of it in which Nehemiah is sp"}]}