{"query": "Easton: Colony", "count": 15, "results": [{"id": "card_n_89aa6670fc98", "title": "Easton: Colony", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The city of Philippi was a Roman colony (Acts 16:12), i.e., a military settlement of Roman soldiers and citizens, planted there to keep in subjection a newly-conquered district. A colony was Rome in m"}, {"id": "card_c_4f8e87784d4b", "title": "Easton: Colony cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 16:12 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_85bccea70d62", "title": "Easton: Uphaz", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Probably another name for Ophir (Jer. 10:9). Some, however, regard it as the name of an Indian colony in Yemen, southern Arabia; others as a place on or near the river Hyphasis (now the Ghana), the so"}, {"id": "card_n_b82dd42c2949", "title": "Easton: Beth-dagon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "House of Dagon. (1.) A city in the low country or plain of Judah, near Philistia (Josh. 15:41); the modern Beit Degan, about 5 miles from Lydda. (2.) A city near the south-east border of Asher (Josh. "}, {"id": "card_c_5c629ac4d744", "title": "Easton: Colony references Philippi", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Philippi (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_a6dd2565ceb7", "title": "Easton: Barbarian", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Greek word used in the New Testament (Rom. 1:14) to denote one of another nation. In Col. 3:11, the word more definitely designates those nations of the Roman empire that did not speak Greek. In 1 C"}, {"id": "card_n_f77b44534ccf", "title": "Easton: Artaxerxes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Greek form of the name of several Persian kings. (1.) The king who obstructed the rebuilding of the temple (Ezra 4:7). He was probably the Smerdis of profane history. (2.) The king mentioned in Ez"}, {"id": "card_n_faea09fdb08c", "title": "Easton: Cyrene", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A city (now Tripoli) in Upper Libya, North Africa, founded by a colony of Greeks (B.C. 630). It contained latterly a large number of Jews, who were introduced into the city by Ptolemy, the son of Lagu"}, {"id": "card_n_06a754277270", "title": "Easton: Philippi", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Formerly Crenides, “the fountain,” the capital of the province of Macedonia. It stood near the head of the Sea, about 8 miles north-west of Kavalla. It is now a ruined village, called Philibedjik"}, {"id": "card_n_e373a1911a6f", "title": "Easton: Antioch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) In Syria, on the river Orontes, about 16 miles from the Mediterranean, and some 300 miles north of Jerusalem. It was the metropolis of Syria, and afterwards became the capital of the Roman provin"}, {"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_65c045a22277", "title": "Easton: Corinth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Grecian city, on the isthmus which joins the Peloponnesus to the mainland of Greece. It is about 48 miles west of Athens. The ancient city was destroyed by the Romans (B.C. 146), and that mentioned "}, {"id": "card_n_5d8fdf250248", "title": "Easton: Tarshish", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Sanscrit or Aryan word, meaning “the sea coast.” (1.) One of the “sons” of Javan (Gen. 10:4; 1 Chr. 1:7). (2.) The name of a place which first comes into notice in the days of Solomon. The question "}, {"id": "card_n_ca7c5314c056", "title": "Easton: Siloam, Tower of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned only Luke 13:4. The place here spoken of is the village now called Silwan, or Kefr Silwan, on the east of the valley of Kidron, and to the north-east of the pool. It stands on the west slope"}, {"id": "card_n_6298b9eb4a15", "title": "Easton: Philippians, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written by Paul during the two years when he was “in bonds” in Rome (Phil. 1:7-13), probably early in the year A.D. 62 or in the end of 61. The Philippians had sent Epaphroditus, their messenger, "}]}