{"query": "Easton: Call", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_0ea6a1edcda4", "title": "Easton: Call", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) To cry for help, hence to pray (Gen. 4:26). Thus men are said to “call upon the name of the Lord” (Acts 2:21; 7:59; 9:14; Rom. 10:12; 1 Cor. 1:2). (2.) God calls with respect to men when he desig"}, {"id": "card_n_98d90634948d", "title": "Easton: Enos", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Man the son of Seth, and grandson of Adam (Gen. 5:6-11; Luke 3:38). He lived nine hundred and five years. In his time “men began to call upon the name of the Lord” (Gen. 4:26), meaning either (1) then"}, {"id": "card_n_e976dbae3ed1", "title": "Easton: Abraham", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Father of a multitude, son of Terah, named (Gen. 11:27) before his older brothers Nahor and Haran, because he was the heir of the promises. Till the age of seventy, Abram sojourned among his kindred i"}, {"id": "card_n_95cc8f265c1d", "title": "Easton: Knock", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“Though Orientals are very jealous of their privacy, they never knock when about to enter your room, but walk in without warning or ceremony. It is nearly impossible to teach an Arab servant to knock "}, {"id": "card_n_ba308fcd1d4f", "title": "Easton: Isaiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. Yesh’yahu, i.e., “the salvation of Jehovah”). (1.) The son of Amoz (Isa. 1:1; 2:1), who was apparently a man of humble rank. His wife was called “the prophetess” (8:3), either because she was en"}, {"id": "card_c_a1af64dfdbd3", "title": "Easton: Call references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_b008afcc14d9", "title": "Easton: Call cites Mark", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Mark 16:15 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_022db4331ac2", "title": "Easton: Beacon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A pole (Heb. to’ren) used as a standard or ensign set on the tops of mountains as a call to the people to assemble themselves for some great national purpose (Isa. 30:17). In Isa. 33:23 and Ezek. 27:5"}, {"id": "card_c_561aba0c49ce", "title": "Easton: Call cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 2:21; Acts 13:2; Acts 16:14 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_faab3714b490", "title": "Easton: Call cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 3:14; John 16:14; John 6:44; John 6:45 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_db90bcfa5191", "title": "Easton: Zebedee", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Galilean fisherman, the husband of Salome (q.v.), and the father of James and John, two of our Lord’s disciples (Matt. 4:21; 27:56; Mark 15:40). He seems to have been a man of some position in Caper"}, {"id": "card_n_aa3f3b626acf", "title": "Easton: Father", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A name applied (1) to any ancestor (Deut. 1:11; 1 Kings 15:11; Matt. 3:9; 23:30, etc.); and (2) as a title of respect to a chief, ruler, or elder, etc. (Judg. 17:10; 18:19; 1 Sam. 10:12; 2 Kings 2:12;"}, {"id": "card_n_c5e34ab0a9a2", "title": "Easton: Galilean", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An inhabitant or native of Galilee. This word was used as a name of contempt as applied to our Lord’s disciples (Luke 22:59; Acts 2:7). All the apostles, with the exception of Judas Iscariot (Acts 1:1"}, {"id": "card_n_6f20e4902b9a", "title": "Easton: Cuckoo", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. shahaph), from a root meaning “to be lean; slender.” This bird is mentioned only in Lev. 11:16 and Deut. 14:15 (R.V., “seamew”). Some have interpreted the Hebrew word by “petrel” or “shearwater”"}, {"id": "card_n_f1079ac3e81b", "title": "Easton: Familiar spirit", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sorcerers or necormancers, who professed to call up the dead to answer questions, were said to have a “familiar spirit” (Deut. 18:11; 2 Kings 21:6; 2 Chr. 33:6; Lev. 19:31; 20:6; Isa. 8:19; 29:4). Suc"}, {"id": "card_n_5cd84c6f3b70", "title": "Easton: Mandrakes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hebrew dudaim; i.e., “love-plants”, occurs only in Gen. 30:14-16 and Cant. 7:13. Many interpretations have been given of this word dudaim. It has been rendered “violets,” “Lilies,” “jasmines,” “truffl"}, {"id": "card_n_ef42eceb1b0a", "title": "Easton: Sceva", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An implement, a Jew, chief of the priests at Ephesus (Acts 19:13-16); i.e., the head of one of the twenty-four courses of the house of Levi. He had seven sons, who “took upon them to call over them wh"}, {"id": "card_n_d7529710ccc0", "title": "Easton: Sepharad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Obad. 1:20), some locality unknown. The modern Jews think that Spain is meant, and hence they designate the Spanish Jews “Sephardim,” as they do the German Jews by the name “Ashkenazim,” because the "}, {"id": "card_n_0b27c7f1c295", "title": "Easton: Ezekiel, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consists mainly of three groups of prophecies. After an account of his call to the prophetical office (1-3:21), Ezekiel (1) utters words of denunciation against the Jews (3:22-24), warning them of the"}, {"id": "card_n_8b7feef8497c", "title": "Easton: Scripture", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Invariably in the New Testament denotes that definite collection of sacred books, regarded as given by inspiration of God, which we usually call the Old Testament (2 Tim. 3:15, 16; John 20:9; Gal. 3:2"}]}