{"query": "Easton: Pharisees", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_660ae60c5c82", "title": "Easton: Pharisees", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Separatists (Heb. persahin, from parash, “to separate”). They were probably the successors of the Assideans (i.e., the “pious”), a party that originated in the time of Antiochus Epiphanes in revolt ag"}, {"id": "card_c_m_398ad0dfa3ad", "title": "Easton: Ophel shares a section with Easton: Pharisees", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Ophel shares a section with Easton: Pharisees."}, {"id": "card_c_m_14750b582ebe", "title": "Easton: Pharisees cites Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Pharisees cites Matthew."}, {"id": "card_n_63d448446014", "title": "Easton: Mint", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. heduosmon, i.e., “having a sweet smell”), one of the garden herbs of which the Pharisees paid tithes (Matt. 23:23; Luke 11:42). It belongs to the labiate family of plants. The species most common"}, {"id": "card_n_082360c0950b", "title": "Easton: Ox", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. bakar, “cattle;” “neat cattle”, (Gen. 12:16; 34:28; Job 1:3, 14; 42:12, etc.); not to be muzzled when treading the corn (Deut. 25:4). Referred to by our Lord in his reproof to the Pharisees (Luke"}, {"id": "card_n_846f4a2a582a", "title": "Easton: Essenes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Jewish mystical sect somewhat resembling the Pharisees. They affected great purity. They originated about B.C. 100, and disappeared from history after the destruction of Jerusalem. They are not dire"}, {"id": "card_n_3dd7aa5595a0", "title": "Easton: Disciple", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A scholar, sometimes applied to the followers of John the Baptist (Matt. 9:14), and of the Pharisees (22:16), but principally to the followers of Christ. A disciple of Christ is one who (1) believes h"}, {"id": "card_n_c55e104b764d", "title": "Easton: Rue", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A garden herb (Ruta graveolens) which the Pharisees were careful to tithe (Luke 11:42), neglecting weightier matters. It is omitted in the parallel passage of Matt. 23:23. There are several species gr"}, {"id": "card_n_bc2b9a3178f7", "title": "Easton: Sect", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. hairesis, usually rendered “heresy”, Acts 24:14; 1 Chr. 11:19; Gal. 5:20, etc.), meaning properly “a choice,” then “a chosen manner of life,” and then “a religious party,” as the “sect” of the Sa"}, {"id": "card_n_a62dc5079ad9", "title": "Easton: Hypocrite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who puts on a mask and feigns himself to be what he is not; a dissembler in religion. Our Lord severely rebuked the scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisy (Matt. 6:2, 5, 16). “The hypocrite’s h"}, {"id": "card_n_3cfe5051d3f2", "title": "Easton: Stoics", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A sect of Greek philosophers at Athens, so called from the Greek word stoa i.e., a “porch” or “portico,” where they have been called “the Pharisees of Greek paganism.” The founder of the Stoics was Ze"}, {"id": "card_n_2f61d840e647", "title": "Easton: Doctor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Luke 2:46; 5:17; Acts 5:34), a teacher. The Jewish doctors taught and disputed in synagogues, or wherever they could find an audience. Their disciples were allowed to propose to them questions. They "}, {"id": "card_n_6dc7f2f388f0", "title": "Easton: Cummin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. kammon; i.e., a “condiment”), the fruit or seed of an umbelliferous plant, the Cuminum sativum, still extensively cultivated in the East. Its fruit is mentioned in Isa. 28:25, 27. In the New Tes"}, {"id": "card_n_17c6a378ab82", "title": "Easton: Corban", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Hebrew word adopted into the Greek of the New Testament and left untranslated. It occurs only once (Mark 7:11). It means a gift or offering consecrated to God. Anything over which this word was once"}, {"id": "card_n_117d9c5e5ba9", "title": "Easton: Torches", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On the night of his betrayal, when our Lord was in the garden of Gethsemane, Judas, “having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and t"}, {"id": "card_n_20db105b14a4", "title": "Easton: Alms", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Not found in the Old Testament, but repeatedly in the New. The Mosaic legislation (Lev. 25:35; Deut. 15:7) tended to promote a spirit of charity, and to prevent the occurrence of destitution among the"}, {"id": "card_n_25e75e3d7689", "title": "Easton: Anise", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word is found only in Matt. 23:23. It is the plant commonly known by the name of dill, the Peucedanum graveolens of the botanist. This name dill is derived from a Norse word which means to soothe"}, {"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_e78d0d591b18", "title": "Easton: Sadducees", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The origin of this Jewish sect cannot definitely be traced. It was probably the outcome of the influence of Grecian customs and philosophy during the period of Greek domination. The first time they ar"}, {"id": "card_c_f97e93e7ff57", "title": "Easton: Pharisees references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}]}