{"query": "Easton: Creature", "count": 12, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d1c9c3e55dc1", "title": "Easton: Creature", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Denotes the whole creation in Rom. 8:39; Col. 1:15; Rev. 5:13; the whole human race in Mark 16:15; Rom. 8:19-22. The living creatures in Ezek. 10:15, 17, are imaginary beings, symbols of the Divine at"}, {"id": "card_c_ea1610d307b9", "title": "Easton: Creature cites Mark", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Mark 16:15 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_9bbf8334bd0a", "title": "Easton: Animal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An organized living creature endowed with sensation. The Levitical law divided animals into clean and unclean, although the distinction seems to have existed before the Flood (Gen. 7:2). The clean cou"}, {"id": "card_n_b6cdf6aaa3f1", "title": "Easton: Satyr", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hairy one. Mentioned in Greek mythology as a creature composed of a man and a goat, supposed to inhabit wild and desolate regions. The Hebrew word is rendered also “goat” (Lev. 4:24) and “devil”, i.e."}, {"id": "card_n_037fd49e0ea2", "title": "Easton: Ferret", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lev. 11:30 (R.V., “gecko”), one of the unclean creeping things. It was perhaps the Lacerta gecko which was intended by the Hebrew word (anakah, a cry, “mourning,” the creature which groans) here used,"}, {"id": "card_n_46a0ee1ad5c1", "title": "Easton: Shihor-Libnath", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Black-white, a stream on the borders of Asher, probably the modern Nahr Zerka, i.e., the “crocodile brook,” or “blue river”, which rises in the Carmel range and enters the Mediterranean a little to th"}, {"id": "card_n_19a082b7ff79", "title": "Easton: Dragon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. tannim, plural of tan. The name of some unknown creature inhabiting desert places and ruins (Job 30:29; Ps. 44:19; Isa. 13:22; 34:13; 43:20; Jer. 10:22; Micah 1:8; Mal. 1:3); probably, as tr"}, {"id": "card_n_b667f9571c63", "title": "Easton: Beast", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word is used of flocks or herds of grazing animals (Ex. 22:5; Num. 20:4, 8, 11; Ps. 78:48); of beasts of burden (Gen. 45:17); of eatable beasts (Prov. 9:2); and of swift beasts or dromedaries (Is"}, {"id": "card_n_4a82d606103e", "title": "Easton: Election of Grace", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Scripture speaks (1) of the election of individuals to office or to honour and privilege, e.g., Abraham, Jacob, Saul, David, Solomon, were all chosen by God for the positions they held; so also we"}, {"id": "card_n_b428a2a3bda7", "title": "Easton: Apostle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A person sent by another; a messenger; envoy. This word is once used as a descriptive designation of Jesus Christ, the Sent of the Father (Heb. 3:1; John 20:21). It is, however, generally used as desi"}, {"id": "card_n_73af504cc8a1", "title": "Easton: Regeneration", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Only found in Matt. 19:28 and Titus 3:5. This word literally means a “new birth.” The Greek word so rendered (palingenesia) is used by classical writers with reference to the changes produced by the r"}, {"id": "card_n_a06e1d2ec2e3", "title": "Easton: Coney", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. shaphan; i.e., “the hider”), an animal which inhabits the mountain gorges and the rocky districts of Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land. “The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their hous"}]}