{"query": "Easton: Atonement, Day of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_db6466823b72", "title": "Easton: Atonement, Day of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The great annual day of humiliation and expiation for the sins of the nation, “the fast” (Acts 27:9), and the only one commanded in the law of Moses. The mode of its observance is described in Lev. 16"}, {"id": "card_n_aabbe96cf183", "title": "Easton: Fast", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The sole fast required by the law of Moses was that of the great Day of Atonement (q.v.), Lev. 23:26-32. It is called “the fast” (Acts 27:9). The only other mention of a periodical fast in the Old Tes"}, {"id": "card_n_4d83e01c50a0", "title": "Easton: Atonement", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word does not occur in the Authorized Version of the New Testament except in Rom. 5:11, where in the Revised Version the word “reconciliation” is used. In the Old Testament it is of frequent occu"}, {"id": "card_n_6cb382b0b203", "title": "Easton: Sin-offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. hattath), the law of, is given in detail in Lev. 4-6:13; 9:7-11, 22-24; 12:6-8; 15:2, 14, 25-30; 14:19, 31; Num. 6:10-14. On the day of Atonement it was made with special solemnity (Lev. 16:5, 1"}, {"id": "card_n_975987a47210", "title": "Easton: Scapegoat", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lev. 16:8-26; R.V., “the goat for Azazel” (q.v.), the name given to the goat which was taken away into the wilderness on the day of Atonement (16:20-22). The priest made atonement over the scapegoat, "}, {"id": "card_n_8090780d2b74", "title": "Easton: Mercy-seat", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. kapporeth, a “covering;” LXX. and N.T., hilasterion; Vulg., propitiatorium), the covering or lid of the ark of the covenant (q.v.). It was of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, or perhaps rather a"}, {"id": "card_n_9c24074fe17d", "title": "Easton: Day", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Jews reckoned the day from sunset to sunset (Lev. 23:32). It was originally divided into three parts (Ps. 55:17). “The heat of the day” (1 Sam. 11:11; Neh. 7:3) was at our nine o’clock, and “the c"}, {"id": "card_n_051e5f4a3a51", "title": "Easton: Colour", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The subject of colours holds an important place in the Scriptures. White occurs as the translation of various Hebrew words. It is applied to milk (Gen. 49:12), manna (Ex. 16:31), snow (Isa. 1:18), hor"}, {"id": "card_n_39fb74a3b5b2", "title": "Easton: Pentecost", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I.e., “fiftieth”, found only in the New Testament (Acts 2:1; 20:16; 1 Cor. 16:8). The festival so named is first spoken of in Ex. 23:16 as “the feast of harvest,” and again in Ex. 34:22 as “the day of"}, {"id": "card_n_550bc6970481", "title": "Easton: Purification", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The process by which a person unclean, according to the Levitical law, and thereby cut off from the sanctuary and the festivals, was restored to the enjoyment of all these privileges. The great annual"}, {"id": "card_n_0dca9769f9da", "title": "Easton: Azazel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Lev. 16:8, 10, 26, Revised Version only here; rendered “scape-goat” in the Authorized Version). This word has given rise to many different views. Some Jewish interpreters regard it as the name of a p"}, {"id": "card_n_37fd58b5ed80", "title": "Easton: Burnt offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hebrew olah; i.e., “ascending,” the whole being consumed by fire, and regarded as ascending to God while being consumed. Part of every offering was burnt in the sacred fire, but this was wholly burnt,"}, {"id": "card_n_615dd6cca916", "title": "Easton: Convocation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A meeting of a religious character as distinguished from congregation, which was more general, dealing with political and legal matters. Hence it is called an “holy convocation.” Such convocations wer"}, {"id": "card_n_ebea07e0d389", "title": "Easton: Censer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The vessel in which incense was presented on “the golden altar” before the Lord in the temple (Ex. 30:1-9). The priest filled the censer with live coal from the sacred fire on the altar of burnt-offer"}, {"id": "card_n_dc3d12884023", "title": "Easton: Incense", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A fragrant composition prepared by the “art of the apothecary.” It consisted of four ingredients “beaten small” (Ex. 30:34-36). That which was not thus prepared was called “strange incense” (30:9). It"}, {"id": "card_n_9cc73f05336c", "title": "Easton: Cornet", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. shophar, “brightness,” with reference to the clearness of its sound (1 Chr. 15:28; 2 Chr. 15:14; Ps. 98:6; Hos. 5:8). It is usually rendered in the Authorized Version “trumpet.” It denotes the lo"}, {"id": "card_n_d0f793b71a20", "title": "Easton: Propitiation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "That by which God is rendered propitious, i.e., by which it becomes consistent with his character and government to pardon and bless the sinner. The propitiation does not procure his love or make him "}, {"id": "card_n_39d02442bb0b", "title": "Easton: Dew", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“There is no dew properly so called in Palestine, for there is no moisture in the hot summer air to be chilled into dew-drops by the coldness of the night. From May till October rain is unknown, the s"}, {"id": "card_n_ea1eb2bf8a62", "title": "Easton: Hour", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First found in Dan. 3:6; 4:19, 33;5:5. It is the rendering of the Chaldee shaah, meaning a “moment,” a “look.” It is used in the New Testament frequently to denote some determinate season (Matt. 8:13;"}, {"id": "card_n_16df043077e1", "title": "Easton: Herod Agrippa I.", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Son of Aristobulus and Bernice, and grandson of Herod the Great. He was made tetrarch of the provinces formerly held by Lysanias II., and ultimately possessed the entire kingdom of his grandfather, He"}]}