{"query": "Easton: Chiefs of 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_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_n_06be62a24478", "title": "Easton: Elah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Terebinth or oak. (1.) Valley of, where the Israelites were encamped when David killed Goliath (1 Sam. 17:2, 19). It was near Shochoh of Judah and Azekah (17:1). It is the modern Wady es-Sunt, i.e., “"}, {"id": "card_n_25e88322c198", "title": "Easton: Jeremiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Raised up or appointed by Jehovah. (1.) A Gadite who joined David in the wilderness (1 Chr. 12:10). (2.) A Gadite warrior (1 Chr. 12:13). (3.) A Benjamite slinger who joined David at Ziklag (1 Chr. 12"}, {"id": "card_n_1909e2e3a658", "title": "Easton: Caleb", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A dog. (1.) One of the three sons of Hezron of the tribe of Judah. He is also called Chelubai (1 Chr. 2:9). His descendants are enumerated (18-20, 42-49). (2.) A “son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah"}, {"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_n_054073c045c3", "title": "Easton: Japheth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Wide spreading: “God shall enlarge Japheth” (Heb. Yaphat Elohim le-Yephet, Gen. 9:27. Some, however, derive the name from yaphah, “to be beautiful;” hence white), one of the sons of Noah, mentioned la"}, {"id": "card_c_e21a2969f096", "title": "Easton: Chiefs of Asia 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_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_b5ad3d476485", "title": "Easton: Writing", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The art of writing must have been known in the time of the early Pharaohs. Moses is commanded “to write for a memorial in a book” (Ex. 17:14) a record of the attack of Amalek. Frequent mention is afte"}, {"id": "card_n_b6a3590fe3f2", "title": "Easton: Governor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. nagid, a prominent, conspicuous person, whatever his capacity: as, chief of the royal palace (2 Chr. 28:7; comp. 1 Kings 4:6), chief of the temple (1 Chr. 9:11; Jer. 20:1), the leader of the"}, {"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_fc8307aaf1f1", "title": "Easton: Tiberias", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A city, the modern Tubarich, on the western shore of the Sea of Tiberias. It is said to have been founded by Herod Antipas (A.D. 16), on the site of the ruins of an older city called Rakkath, and to h"}, {"id": "card_n_28bcf3faffe1", "title": "Easton: Assyria", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name derived from the city Asshur on the Tigris, the original capital of the country, was originally a colony from Babylonia, and was ruled by viceroys from that kingdom. It was a mountainous regi"}, {"id": "card_n_321b6f6055ba", "title": "Easton: Babylon, kingdom of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called “the land of the Chaldeans” (Jer. 24:5; Ezek, 12:13), was an extensive province in Central Asia along the valley of the Tigris from the Persian Gulf northward for some 300 miles. It was famed f"}, {"id": "card_n_ae6a49e684a3", "title": "Easton: Johanan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whom Jehovah graciously bestows. (1.) One of the Gadite heroes who joined David in the desert of Judah (1 Chr. 12:12). (2.) The oldest of King Josiah’s sons (1 Chr. 3:15). (3.) Son of Careah, one of t"}, {"id": "card_n_d7e0c13e10de", "title": "Easton: Gomer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Complete; vanishing. (1.) The daughter of Diblaim, who (probably in vision only) became the wife of Hosea (1:3). (2.) The eldest son of Japheth, and father of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah (Gen. 10:"}, {"id": "card_n_bf06f027e6db", "title": "Easton: Adoni-zedec", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lord of justice or righteousness, was king in Jerusalem at the time when the Israelites invaded Palestine (Josh. 10:1, 3). He formed a confederacy with the other Canaanitish kings against the Israelit"}]}