{"query": "Easton: Beyond", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_211f27451c3c", "title": "Easton: Beyond", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When used with reference to Jordan, signifies in the writings of Moses the west side of the river, as he wrote on the east bank (Gen. 50:10, 11; Deut. 1:1, 5; 3:8, 20; 4:46); but in the writings of Jo"}, {"id": "card_n_afc06cf78cf2", "title": "Easton: Hebrew", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A name applied to the Israelites in Scripture only by one who is a foreigner (Gen. 39:14, 17; 41:12, etc.), or by the Israelites when they speak of themselves to foreigners (40:15; Ex. 1:19), or when "}, {"id": "card_n_6d19c0f81f66", "title": "Easton: Abel-mizraim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Meadow of Egypt, or mourning of Egypt, a place “beyond,” i.e., on the west of Jordan, at the “threshing-floor of Atad.” Here the Egyptians mourned seventy days for Jacob (Gen. 50:4-11). Its site is un"}, {"id": "card_n_93723810b32c", "title": "Easton: Karkor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Foundation, a place in the open desert wastes on the east of Jordan (Judg. 8:10), not far beyond Succoth and Penuel, to the south. Here Gideon overtook and routed a fugitive band of Midianites under Z"}, {"id": "card_n_204eda054dc1", "title": "Easton: Jeruel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Founded by God, a “desert” on the ascent from the valley of the Dead Sea towards Jerusalem. It lay beyond the wilderness of Tekoa, in the direction of Engedi (2 Chr. 20:16, 20). It corresponds with th"}, {"id": "card_n_2d3fa06b39e9", "title": "Easton: Manaen", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consoler, a Christian teacher at Antioch. Nothing else is known of him beyond what is stated in Acts 13:1, where he is spoken of as having been brought up with (Gr. syntrophos; rendered in R.V. “foste"}, {"id": "card_n_0bb8b45eda8a", "title": "Easton: Boar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Occurs only in Ps. 80:13. The same Hebrew word is elsewhere rendered “swine” (Lev. 11:7; Deut. 14:8; Prov. 11:22; Isa. 65:4; 66:3, 17). The Hebrews abhorred swine’s flesh, and accordingly none of thes"}, {"id": "card_c_f8a3e8afba77", "title": "Easton: Beyond references Jordan", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jordan (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_fddf9c7791b4", "title": "Easton: Theophilus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lover of God, a Christian, probably a Roman, to whom Luke dedicated both his Gospel (Luke 1:3) and the Acts of the Apostles (1:1). Nothing beyond this is known of him. From the fact that Luke applies "}, {"id": "card_n_1db8b6b376c8", "title": "Easton: Man of sin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A designation of Antichrist given in 2 Thess. 2:3-10, usually regarded as descriptive of the Papal power; but “in whomsoever these distinctive features are found, whoever wields temporal and spiritual"}, {"id": "card_n_1c2fef34e1dc", "title": "Easton: Abarim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Regions beyond; i.e., on the east of Jordan, a mountain, or rather a mountain-chain, over against Jericho, to the east and south-east of the Dead Sea, in the land of Moab. From “the top of Pisgah”, i."}, {"id": "card_n_43a2f855c3ae", "title": "Easton: Bethabara", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "House of the ford, a place on the east bank of the Jordan, where John was baptizing (John 1:28). It may be identical with Bethbarah, the ancient ford of Jordan of which the men of Ephraim took possess"}, {"id": "card_n_6f8d7f85415d", "title": "Easton: Eber", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Beyond. (1.). The third post-duluvian patriach after Shem (Gen. 10:24; 11:14). He is regarded as the founder of the Hebrew race (10:21; Num. 24:24). In Luke 3:35 he is called Heber. (2.) One of the se"}, {"id": "card_n_8efafc64c265", "title": "Easton: Kirjath-huzoth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "City of streets, Num. 22:39, a Moabite city, which some identify with Kirjathaim. Balak here received and entertained Balaam, whom he had invited from Pethor, among the “mountains of the east,” beyond"}, {"id": "card_n_e529450b7ca0", "title": "Easton: Arnon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Swift, the southern boundary of the territory of Israel beyond Jordan, separating it from the land of Moab (Deut. 3:8, 16). This river (referred to twenty-four times in the Bible) rises in the mountai"}, {"id": "card_n_3060e0e49662", "title": "Easton: Jahaz", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Trodden down (called also Jahaza, Josh. 13:18; Jahazah, 21:36; Jahzah, 1 Chr. 6:78), a town where Sihon was defeated, in the borders of Moab and in the land of the Ammonites beyond Jordan, and north o"}, {"id": "card_n_cef4a44af69f", "title": "Easton: Reuben", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Behold a son!, the eldest son of Jacob and Leah (Gen. 29:32). His sinful conduct, referred to in Gen. 35:22, brought down upon him his dying father’s malediction (48:4). He showed kindness to Joseph, "}, {"id": "card_n_24f656a0430f", "title": "Easton: Magog", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Region of Gog, the second of the “sons” of Japheth (Gen. 10:2; 1 Chr. 1:5). In Ezekiel (38:2; 39:6) it is the name of a nation, probably some Scythian or Tartar tribe descended from Japheth. They are "}, {"id": "card_n_a04bab6cb8a2", "title": "Easton: Hoshea", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Salvation. (1.) The original name of the son of Nun, afterwards called Joshua (Num. 13:8, 16; Deut. 32:44). (2.) 1 Chr. 27:20. The ruler of Ephraim in David’s time. (3.) The last king of Israel. He co"}, {"id": "card_n_69ff6a6c4b75", "title": "Easton: Asher", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Happy, Jacob’s eigth son; his mother was Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid (Gen. 30:13). Of the tribe founded by him nothing is recorded beyond its holding a place in the list of the tribes (35:26; 46:17; Ex. 1"}]}