{"query": "Easton: Armour-bearer", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f01d74090f88", "title": "Easton: Armour-bearer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An officer selected by kings and generals because of his bravery, not only to bear their armour, but also to stand by them in the time of danger. They were the adjutants of our modern armies (Judg. 9:"}, {"id": "card_n_3d3a69056bb1", "title": "Easton: Cup-bearer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An officer of high rank with Egyptian, Persian, Assyrian, and Jewish monarchs. The cup-bearer of the king of Egypt is mentioned in connection with Joseph’s history (Gen. 40:1-21; 41:9). Rabshakeh (q.v"}, {"id": "card_n_e8edbb21211b", "title": "Easton: Seneh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The acacia; rock-thorn, the southern cliff in the Wady es-Suweinit, a valley south of Michmash, which Jonathan climbed with his armour-bearer (1 Sam. 14:4, 5). The rock opposite, on the other side of "}, {"id": "card_n_0bcbfdc90abe", "title": "Easton: Breastplate", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) That piece of ancient armour that protected the breast. This word is used figuratively in Eph. 6:14 and Isa. 59:17. (See ARMOUR.) (2.) An ornament covering the breast of the high priest, first me"}, {"id": "card_n_9587548d206b", "title": "Easton: Armour", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is employed in the English Bible to denote military equipment, both offensive and defensive. (1.) The offensive weapons were different at different periods of history. The “rod of iron” (Ps. 2:9) is s"}, {"id": "card_c_8fc96e200d46", "title": "Easton: Cup-bearer cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 18:17 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_a9d5a1cb7b8c", "title": "Easton: Cup-bearer cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 10:5 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_4ee4cbcfbdf1", "title": "Easton: Armour cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 20:11; 1 Kings 10:17 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_336f91e9fbd2", "title": "Easton: Butler", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Properly a servant in charge of the wine (Gen. 40:1-13; 41:9). The Hebrew word, mashkeh, thus translated is rendered also (plural) “cup-bearers” (1 Kings 10:5; 2 Chr. 9:4). Nehemiah (1:11) was cup-bea"}, {"id": "card_n_29e904269a60", "title": "Easton: Phebe", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A “deaconess of the church at Cenchrea,” the port of Corinth. She was probably the bearer of Paul’s epistle to the Romans. Paul commended her to the Christians at Rome; “for she hath been,” says he, “"}, {"id": "card_n_59ac60caaf69", "title": "Easton: Epaphroditus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fair, graceful; belonging to Aphrodite or Venus the messenger who came from Phillipi to the apostle when he was a prisoner at Rome (Phil. 2:25-30; 4:10-18). Paul mentions him in words of esteem and af"}, {"id": "card_n_b66b039a63aa", "title": "Easton: Coat of mail", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The rendering of a Hebrew word meaning “glittering” (1 Sam. 17:5, 38). The same word in the plural form is translated “habergeons” in 2 Chr. 26:14 and Neh. 4:16. The “harness” (1 Kings 22:34), “breast"}, {"id": "card_n_fc2c0a4fe7b5", "title": "Easton: Battle-bow", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The war-bow used in fighting (Zech. 9:10; 10:4). “Thy bow was made quite naked” (Hab. 3:9) means that it was made ready for use. By David’s order (2 Sam. 1:18) the young men were taught the use, or ra"}, {"id": "card_n_392e2c401623", "title": "Easton: Target", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 Sam. 17:6, A.V., after the LXX. and Vulg.), a kind of small shield. The margin has “gorget,” a piece of armour for the throat. The Revised Version more correctly renders the Hebrew word (kidon) by "}, {"id": "card_c_47e628d2a3ab", "title": "Easton: Cup-bearer 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_n_7bf853034fae", "title": "Easton: Bernice", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Bearer of victory, the eldest daughter of Agrippa I., the Herod Agrippa of Acts 12:20. After the early death of her first husband she was married to her uncle Herod, king of Chalcis. After his death ("}, {"id": "card_c_809208534eee", "title": "Easton: Armour references David", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions David (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_50a9be2e4e10", "title": "Easton: Armour references Paul", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Paul (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_n_4903af14d7bb", "title": "Easton: Armoury", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The place in which armour was deposited when not used (Neh. 3:19; Jer. 50:25). At first each man of the Hebrews had his own arms, because all went to war. There were no arsenals or magazines for arms "}, {"id": "card_n_df9c7f8e97ad", "title": "Easton: Rabshakeh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Chief of the princes, the name given to the chief cup-bearer or the vizier of the Assyrian court; one of Sennacherib’s messengers to Hezekiah. See the speech he delivered, in the Hebrew language, in t"}]}