{"query": "Easton: Seven", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_22287c2f7117", "title": "Easton: Seven", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This number occurs frequently in Scripture, and in such connections as lead to the supposition that it has some typical meaning. On the seventh day God rested, and hallowed it (Gen. 2:2, 3). The divis"}, {"id": "card_c_m_73be4f286175", "title": "Easton: Seven cites Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Seven cites Matthew."}, {"id": "card_n_e336d82739e0", "title": "Easton: Mystery", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The calling of the Gentiles into the Christian Church, so designated (Eph. 1:9, 10; 3:8-11; Col. 1:25-27); a truth undiscoverable except by revelation, long hid, now made manifest. The resurrection of"}, {"id": "card_n_67a10b6fda93", "title": "Easton: Deacon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Anglicized form of the Greek word diaconos, meaning a “runner,” “messenger,” “servant.” For a long period a feeling of mutual jealousy had existed between the “Hebrews,” or Jews proper, who spoke the "}, {"id": "card_n_69941284339e", "title": "Easton: Beersheba", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Well of the oath, or well of seven, a well dug by Abraham, and so named because he and Abimelech here entered into a compact (Gen. 21:31). On re-opening it, Isaac gave it the same name (Gen. 26:31-33)"}, {"id": "card_n_4a14f154615a", "title": "Easton: Sheba", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An oath, seven. (1.) Heb. shebha, the son of Raamah (Gen. 10:7), whose descendants settled with those of Dedan on the Persian Gulf. (2.) Heb. id. A son of Joktan (Gen. 10:28), probably the founder of "}, {"id": "card_n_32809b73b3b4", "title": "Easton: Ark", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Noah’s ark, a building of gopher-wood, and covered with pitch, 300 cubits long, 50 cubits broad, and 30 cubits high (Gen. 6:14-16); an oblong floating house of three stories, with a door in the side a"}, {"id": "card_c_31ff56403b17", "title": "The perfect numbers — six days and a month ↔ Easton: Seven", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "666 is the 36th triangular (36·37/2, sealed) — man's number stacking short of seven, an attributed reading.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_n_71caf1429783", "title": "Easton: Bani", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Built. (1.) 1 Chr. 6:46. (2.) One of David’s thirty-seven warriors, a Gadite (2 Sam. 23:36). (3.) Ezra 2:10; 10:29, 34, 38. (4.) A Levite who was prominent in the reforms on the return from Babylon (N"}, {"id": "card_n_7927cf8b7e10", "title": "Easton: Stars", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The eleven stars (Gen. 37:9); the seven (Amos 5:8); wandering (Jude 1:13); seen in the east at the birth of Christ, probably some luminous meteors miraculously formed for this specific purpose (Matt. "}, {"id": "card_n_2451e47bae0f", "title": "Easton: Berechiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Blessed by Jehovah. (1.) Son of Shimea, and father of Asaph the musician (1 Chr. 6:39; 15:17). (2.) One of the seven Ephraimite chieftains, son of Meshillemoth (2 Chr. 28:12). (3.) The fourth of the f"}, {"id": "card_n_c14fba47948b", "title": "Easton: Nebuzaradan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“the captain of the guard,” in rank next to the king, who appears prominent in directing affairs at the capture of Jerusalem (2 Kings 25:8-20; Jer. 39:11; 40:2-5). He showed kindness toward Jeremiah, "}, {"id": "card_n_88a9d5e631d1", "title": "Easton: Fairs", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ‘izabhonim), found seven times in Ezek. 27, and nowhere else. The Authorized Version renders the word thus in all these instances, except in verse 33, where “wares” is used. The Revised Version "}, {"id": "card_n_691820ed0a16", "title": "Easton: Philadelphia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Brotherly love, a city of Lydia in Asia Minor, about 25 miles south-east of Sardis. It was the seat of one of the “seven churches” (Rev. 3:7-12). It came into the possession of the Turks in A.D. 1392."}, {"id": "card_n_04d826847b17", "title": "Easton: Atad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Buckthorn, a place where Joseph and his brethren, when on their way from Egypt to Hebron with the remains of their father Jacob, made for seven days a “great and very sore lamentation.” On this accoun"}, {"id": "card_n_ce6428cb4ceb", "title": "Easton: Cor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This Hebrew word, untranslated, denotes a round vessel used as a measure both for liquids and solids. It was equal to one homer, and contained ten ephahs in dry and ten baths in liquid measure (Ezek. "}, {"id": "card_n_93c49f75be16", "title": "Easton: Hiel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Life of (i.e., from) God, a native of Bethel, who built (i.e., fortified) Jericho some seven hundred years after its destruction by the Israelites. There fell on him for such an act the imprecation of"}, {"id": "card_n_c8cb62e4a2e0", "title": "Easton: John, Second Epistle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is addressed to “the elect lady,” and closes with the words, “The children of thy elect sister greet thee;” but some would read instead of “lady” the proper name Kyria. Of the thirteen verses composin"}, {"id": "card_n_598a3e749813", "title": "Easton: Tamarisk", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ‘eshel (Gen. 21:33; 1 Sam. 22:6; 31:13, in the R.V.; but in A.V., “grove,” “tree”); Arab. asal. Seven species of this tree are found in Palestine. It is a “very graceful tree, with long feathery "}, {"id": "card_n_ce76f9222108", "title": "Easton: Evil-merodach", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Merodach’s man, the son and successor of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon (2 Kings 25:27; Jer. 52:31, 34). He seems to have reigned but two years (B.C. 562-560). Influenced probably by Daniel, he showe"}]}