{"query": "Easton: So", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f9ac4e580107", "title": "Easton: So", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Nubian, Sabako), an Ethiopian king who brought Egypt under his sway. He was bribed by Hoshea to help him against the Assyrian monarch Shalmaneser (2 Kings 17:4). This was a return to the policy that "}, {"id": "card_n_884f17aa16cc", "title": "Easton: Locust", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are ten Hebrew words used in Scripture to signify locust. In the New Testament locusts are mentioned as forming part of the food of John the Baptist (Matt. 3:4; Mark 1:6). By the Mosaic law they"}, {"id": "card_n_1c0d3a9c4ba6", "title": "Easton: Charity", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 Cor. 13), the rendering in the Authorized Version of the word which properly denotes love, and is frequently so rendered (always so in the Revised Version). It is spoken of as the greatest of the t"}, {"id": "card_n_53ba4a2e7a5d", "title": "Easton: Salutation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“Eastern modes of salutation are not unfrequently so prolonged as to become wearisome and a positive waste of time. The profusely polite Arab asks so many questions after your health, your happiness, "}, {"id": "card_n_773153fe2b52", "title": "Easton: Olves, Mount of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "So called from the olive trees with which its sides are clothed, is a mountain ridge on the east of Jerusalem (1 Kings 11:7; Ezek. 11:23; Zech. 14:4), from which it is separated by the valley of Kidro"}, {"id": "card_n_38e08b8b0a3d", "title": "Easton: Helkath-hazzurim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Plot of the sharp blades, or the field of heroes, (2 Sam. 2:16). After the battle of Gilboa, so fatal to Saul and his house, David, as divinely directed, took up his residence in Hebron, and was there"}, {"id": "card_n_3bf1a488b550", "title": "Easton: Bowl", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The sockets of the lamps of the golden candlestick of the tabernacle are called bowls (Ex. 25:31, 33, 34; 37:17, 19, 20); the same word so rendered being elsewhere rendered “cup” (Gen. 44:2, 12, 16), "}, {"id": "card_n_4a6eec8fa59f", "title": "Easton: Marah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Bitterness, a fountain at the sixth station of the Israelites (Ex. 15:23, 24; Num. 33:8) whose waters were so bitter that they could not drink them. On this account they murmured against Moses, who, u"}, {"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_732fe14a8a42", "title": "Easton: Carnal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Unconverted men are so called (1 Cor. 3:3). They are represented as of a “carnal mind, which is enmity against God” (Rom. 8:6, 7). Enjoyments that minister to the wants and desires of man’s animal nat"}, {"id": "card_n_75e704df6306", "title": "Easton: Beg", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "That the poor existed among the Hebrews we have abundant evidence (Ex. 23:11; Deut. 15:11), but there is no mention of beggars properly so called in the Old Testament. The poor were provided for by th"}, {"id": "card_n_a6818bd55925", "title": "Easton: Borrow", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Israelites “borrowed” from the Egyptians (Ex. 12:35, R.V., “asked”) in accordance with a divine command (3:22; 11:2). But the word (sha’al) so rendered here means simply and always to “request” or"}, {"id": "card_n_7dbf0c0d0bed", "title": "Easton: Tiberias, Sea of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called also the Sea of Galilee (q.v.) and of Gennesaret. In the Old Testament it is called the Sea of Chinnereth or Chinneroth. John (21:1) is the only evangelist who so designates this lake. His doin"}, {"id": "card_n_64ec9128e4c4", "title": "Easton: Inn", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In the modern sense, unknown in the East. The khans or caravanserais, which correspond to the European inn, are not alluded to in the Old Testament. The “inn” mentioned in Ex. 4:24 was just the haltin"}, {"id": "card_n_8b9c55c0f098", "title": "Easton: Schoolmaster", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The law so designated by Paul (Gal. 3:24, 25). As so used, the word does not mean teacher, but pedagogue (shortened into the modern page), i.e., one who was intrusted with the supervision of a family,"}, {"id": "card_n_0047b82be99c", "title": "Easton: Egg", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. beytsah, “whiteness”). Eggs deserted (Isa. 10:14), of a bird (Deut. 22:6), an ostrich (Job 39:14), the cockatrice (Isa. 59:5). In Luke 11:12, an egg is contrasted with a scorpion, which is said "}, {"id": "card_n_5e3796a10633", "title": "Easton: Queen", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "No explicit mention of queens is made till we read of the “queen of Sheba.” The wives of the kings of Israel are not so designated. In Ps. 45:9, the Hebrew for “queen” is not malkah, one actually ruli"}, {"id": "card_n_e0d745038e0f", "title": "Easton: Centurion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Roman officer in command of a hundred men (Mark 15:39, 44, 45). Cornelius, the first Gentile convert, was a centurion (Acts 10:1, 22). Other centurions are mentioned in Matt. 8:5, 8, 13; Luke 7:2, 6"}, {"id": "card_n_c9f5aff72bbb", "title": "Easton: Frost", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. kerah, from its smoothness) Job 37:10 (R.V., “ice”); Gen. 31:40; Jer. 36:30; rendered “ice” in Job 6:16, 38:29; and “crystal” in Ezek. 1:22. “At the present day frost is entirely unknown in the "}, {"id": "card_n_5b5569c35c17", "title": "Easton: Micah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A shortened form of Micaiah, who is like Jehovah? (1.) A man of Mount Ephraim, whose history so far is introduced in Judg. 17, apparently for the purpose of leading to an account of the settlement of "}]}