{"query": "Easton: Asia", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f844c3f86bdb", "title": "Easton: Asia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is used to denote Proconsular Asia, a Roman province which embraced the western parts of Asia Minor, and of which Ephesus was the capital, in Acts 2:9; 6:9; 16:6; 19:10, 22; 20:4, 16, 18, etc., and pr"}, {"id": "card_n_af411d1ea6cb", "title": "Easton: Chiefs of Asia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“Asiarchs,” the title given to certain wealthy persons annually appointed to preside over the religious festivals and games in the various cities of proconsular Asia (Acts 19:31). Some of these offici"}, {"id": "card_n_12f0fa95e7f5", "title": "Easton: Ephesus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The capital of proconsular Asia, which was the western part of Asia Minor. It was colonized principally from Athens. In the time of the Romans it bore the title of “the first and greatest metropolis o"}, {"id": "card_n_a7c004504bb5", "title": "Easton: Epaenetus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Commendable, a Christian at Rome to whom Paul sent his salutation (Rom. 16:5). He is spoken of as “the first fruits of Achaia” (R.V., “of Asia”, i.e., of proconsular Asia, which is probably the correc"}, {"id": "card_n_4d974cdf43bd", "title": "Easton: Gaius", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A Macedonian, Paul’s fellow-traveller, and his host at Corinth when he wrote his Epistle to the Romans (16:23). He with his household were baptized by Paul (1 Cor. 1:14). During a heathen outbrea"}, {"id": "card_n_2aa4e0245a92", "title": "Easton: Galatia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Has been called the “Gallia” of the East, Roman writers calling its inhabitants Galli. They were an intermixture of Gauls and Greeks, and hence were called Gallo-Graeci, and the country Gallo-Graecia."}, {"id": "card_n_a29831e76d86", "title": "Easton: Camel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From the Hebrew gamal, “to repay” or “requite,” as the camel does the care of its master. There are two distinct species of camels, having, however, the common characteristics of being “ruminants with"}, {"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"}, {"id": "card_c_0e1c9c27b9af", "title": "Easton: Asia references Revelation", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Revelation. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_baa975d4ad2d", "title": "Easton: Hermogenes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mercury-born, at one time Paul’s fellow-labourer in Asia Minor, who, however, afterwards abandoned him, along with one Phygellus, probably on account of the perils by which they were beset (2 Tim. 1:1"}, {"id": "card_c_a34b9db0b984", "title": "Easton: Chiefs of Asia cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 19:31 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_ec4901e15a7f", "title": "Easton: Asia cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 2:9; Acts 19:26; Acts 19:31 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_f4293f5a3e0e", "title": "Easton: Myra", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the chief towns of Lycia, in Asia Minor, about 2 1/2 miles from the coast (Acts 27:5). Here Paul removed from the Adramyttian ship in which he had sailed from Caesarea, and entered into the Ale"}, {"id": "card_n_9de284733d92", "title": "Easton: Rhodes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A rose, an island to the south of the western extremity of Asia Minor, between Coos and Patara, about 46 miles long and 18 miles broad. Here the apostle probably landed on his way from Greece to Syria"}, {"id": "card_n_1c18784a6523", "title": "Easton: Lycia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A wolf, a province in the south-west of Asia Minor, opposite the island of Rhodes. It forms part of the region now called Tekeh. It was a province of the Roman empire when visited by Paul (Acts 21:1; "}, {"id": "card_n_ddb12bb03a8b", "title": "Easton: Assos", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A sea-port town of Proconsular Asia, in the district of Mysia, on the north shore of the Gulf of Adramyttium. Paul came hither on foot along the Roman road from Troas (Acts 20:13, 14), a distance of 2"}, {"id": "card_n_f6c271074198", "title": "Easton: Gozan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A region in Central Asia to which the Israelites were carried away captive (2 Kings 17:6; 1 Chr. 5:26; 2 Kings 19:12; Isa. 37:12). It was situated in Mesopotamia, on the river Habor (2 Kings 17:6; 18:"}, {"id": "card_n_d769cdf5aa56", "title": "Easton: Pamphylia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Paul and his company, loosing from Paphos, sailed north-west and came to Perga, the capital of Pamphylia (Acts 13:13, 14), a province about the middle of the southern sea-board of Asia Minor. It lay b"}, {"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_54a8e3fc7f8a", "title": "Easton: Phrygia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Dry, an irregular and ill-defined district in Asia Minor. It was divided into two parts, the Greater Phrygia on the south, and the Lesser Phrygia on the west. It is the Greater Phrygia that is spoken "}]}