{"query": "Easton: Alexandria", "count": 14, "results": [{"id": "card_n_a463240061b5", "title": "Easton: Alexandria", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The ancient metropolis of Lower Egypt, so called from its founder, Alexander the Great (about B.C. 333). It was for a long period the greatest of existing cities, for both Nineveh and Babylon had been"}, {"id": "card_c_a1809daeb128", "title": "Easton: Alexandria cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 18:24; Acts 6:9 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_3d964e744f92", "title": "Easton: Alexandria references Alexander", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Alexander (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_f365d15170ea", "title": "Easton: Alexandria references Babylon", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Babylon (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_c_fe3759c4062a", "title": "Easton: Alexandria references Egypt", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Egypt (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_c_50ee4606995b", "title": "Easton: Alexandria references Jerusalem", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jerusalem (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_c_54470f843103", "title": "Easton: Alexandria references Nineveh", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Nineveh (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_n_92cbbef7f909", "title": "Easton: Fair Havens", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A harbour in the south of Crete, some 5 miles to the east of which was the town of Lasea (Acts 27:8). Here the ship of Alexandria in which Paul and his companions sailed was detained a considerable ti"}, {"id": "card_n_ddf19466c145", "title": "Easton: Tarsus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The chief city of Cilicia. It was distinguished for its wealth and for its schools of learning, in which it rivalled, nay, excelled even Athens and Alexandria, and hence was spoken of as “no mean city"}, {"id": "card_n_cd6da3d389e4", "title": "Easton: Famine", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The first mentioned in Scripture was so grievous as to compel Abraham to go down to the land of Egypt (Gen. 26:1). Another is mentioned as having occurred in the days of Isaac, causing him to go to Ge"}, {"id": "card_n_1f1e791cf4af", "title": "Easton: Apollos", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Jew “born at Alexandria,” a man well versed in the Scriptures and eloquent (Acts 18:24; R.V., “learned”). He came to Ephesus (about A.D. 49), where he spake “boldly” in the synagogue (18:26), althou"}, {"id": "card_n_e373a1911a6f", "title": "Easton: Antioch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) In Syria, on the river Orontes, about 16 miles from the Mediterranean, and some 300 miles north of Jerusalem. It was the metropolis of Syria, and afterwards became the capital of the Roman provin"}, {"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_02ac6f811c16", "title": "Easton: Paul", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Saul (q.v.) was born about the same time as our Lord. His circumcision-name was Saul, and probably the name Paul was also given to him in infancy “for use in the Gentile world,” as “Saul” would be hi"}]}