{"query": "Easton: Writing", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_b5ad3d476485", "title": "Easton: Writing", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The art of writing must have been known in the time of the early Pharaohs. Moses is commanded “to write for a memorial in a book” (Ex. 17:14) a record of the attack of Amalek. Frequent mention is afte"}, {"id": "card_c_m_120a72a8e389", "title": "Easton: Vashti shares a section with Easton: Writing", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Vashti shares a section with Easton: Writing."}, {"id": "card_c_m_537b124e3a7d", "title": "Hebrews cites Easton: Writing", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hebrews cites Easton: Writing."}, {"id": "card_c_m_b14d9b970b21", "title": "Exodus cites Easton: Writing", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Exodus cites Easton: Writing."}, {"id": "card_n_38e4cd414e5d", "title": "Easton: Book", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word has a comprehensive meaning in Scripture. In the Old Testament it is the rendering of the Hebrew word sepher, which properly means a “writing,” and then a “volume” (Ex. 17:14; Deut. 28:58; 2"}, {"id": "card_n_8d2d50f4e4b3", "title": "Easton: Mene", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Dan. 5:25, 26), numbered, one of the words of the mysterious inscription written “upon the plaister of the wall” in Belshazzar’s palace at Babylon. The writing was explained by Daniel. (See BELSHAZZA"}, {"id": "card_n_b8c17175ca72", "title": "Easton: Leather", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A girdle of, worn by Elijah (2 Kings 1:8) and John the Baptist (Matt. 3:4). Leather was employed both for clothing (Num. 31:20; Heb. 11:37) and for writing upon. The trade of a tanner is mentioned (Ac"}, {"id": "card_n_cd47c460640c", "title": "Easton: Letter", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In Rom. 2:27, 29 means the outward form. The “oldness of the letter” (7:6) is a phrase which denotes the old way of literal outward obedience to the law as a system of mere external rules of conduct. "}, {"id": "card_n_823cd1eea651", "title": "Easton: Door-posts", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Jews were commanded to write the divine name on the posts (mezuzoth’) of their doors (Deut. 6:9). The Jews, misunderstanding this injunction, adopted the custom of writing on a slip of parchment t"}, {"id": "card_n_ee84cb33910a", "title": "Easton: Achmetha", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ezra 6:2), called Ecbatana by classical writers, the capital of northern Media. Here was the palace which was the residence of the old Median monarchs, and of Cyrus and Cambyses. In the time of Ezra,"}, {"id": "card_n_9775ad62bc60", "title": "Easton: Kirjath-sepher", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "City of books, Josh. 15:15; same as Kirjath-sannah (q.v.), now represented by the valley of ed-Dhaberiyeh, south-west of Hebron. The name of this town is an evidence that the Canaanites were acquainte"}, {"id": "card_n_0c893e514ffe", "title": "Easton: Trophimus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A foster-child, an Ephesian who accompanied Paul during a part of his third missionary journey (Acts 20:4; 21:29). He was with Paul in Jerusalem, and the Jews, supposing that the apostle had brought h"}, {"id": "card_c_b20110798e92", "title": "Easton: Writing ↔ Easton: Seal", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both cite 1kin 21:8 — a shared-scripture cross-reference computed in 1.0 and re-verified live in both cards."}, {"id": "card_n_1ab6b9f04639", "title": "Easton: Michtam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Writing; i.e., a poem or song found in the titles of Ps. 16; 56-60. Some translate the word “golden”, i.e., precious. It is rendered in the LXX. by a word meaning “tablet inscription” or a “stelograph"}, {"id": "card_n_e2aee95aefd8", "title": "Easton: Cenchrea", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Millet, the eastern harbour of Corinth, from which it was distant about 9 miles east, and the outlet for its trade with the Asiatic shores of the Mediterranean. When Paul returned from his second miss"}, {"id": "card_n_7179909561dd", "title": "Easton: Sheshach", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Jer. 25:26), supposed to be equivalent to Babel (Babylon), according to a secret (cabalistic) mode of writing among the Jews of unknown antiquity, which consisted in substituting the last letter of t"}, {"id": "card_n_600ccc86ead6", "title": "Easton: Canaan, the language of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned in Isa. 19:18, denotes the language spoken by the Jews resident in Palestine. The language of the Canaanites and of the Hebrews was substantially the same. This is seen from the fragments of"}, {"id": "card_n_8b7feef8497c", "title": "Easton: Scripture", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Invariably in the New Testament denotes that definite collection of sacred books, regarded as given by inspiration of God, which we usually call the Old Testament (2 Tim. 3:15, 16; John 20:9; Gal. 3:2"}, {"id": "card_n_22b9b4d47b1a", "title": "Easton: Revelation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An uncovering, a bringing to light of that which had been previously wholly hidden or only obscurely seen. God has been pleased in various ways and at different times (Heb. 1:1) to make a supernatural"}, {"id": "card_n_b10c5206da6e", "title": "Easton: Gog", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A Reubenite (1 Chr. 5:4), the father of Shimei. (2.) The name of the leader of the hostile party described in Ezek. 38, 39, as coming from the “north country” and assailing the people of Israel t"}]}