{"query": "Easton: Crete", "count": 11, "results": [{"id": "card_n_2cd22a6c554f", "title": "Easton: Crete", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Now called Candia, one of the largest islands in the Meditterranean, about 140 miles long and 35 broad. It was at one time a very prosperous and populous island, having a “hundred cities.” The charact"}, {"id": "card_n_b3eb866eaaf2", "title": "Easton: Philistines", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gen. 10:14, R.V.; but in A.V., “Philistim”), a tribe allied to the Phoenicians. They were a branch of the primitive race which spread over the whole district of the Lebanon and the valley of the Jord"}, {"id": "card_c_fc3a22b548c6", "title": "Easton: Crete cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 2:11 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_55df08261443", "title": "Easton: Crete cites Titus", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Titus 1:12 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_c1a23c6cdfc8", "title": "Easton: Adria", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Acts 27:27; R.V., “the sea of Adria”), the Adriatic Sea, including in Paul’s time the whole of the Mediterranean lying between Crete and Sicily. It is the modern Gulf of Venice, the Mare Superum_ of "}, {"id": "card_c_7737f06875ec", "title": "Easton: Crete references Jerusalem", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jerusalem (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_c_67f6c992bb90", "title": "Easton: Crete 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_c_3d261b3b812f", "title": "Easton: Crete references Philistines", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Philistines (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_92cbbef7f909", "title": "Easton: Fair Havens", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A harbour in the south of Crete, some 5 miles to the east of which was the town of Lasea (Acts 27:8). Here the ship of Alexandria in which Paul and his companions sailed was detained a considerable ti"}, {"id": "card_n_2e335ceb7994", "title": "Easton: Caphtor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A chaplet, the original seat of the Philistines (Deut. 2:23; Jer. 47:4; Amos 9:7). The name is found written in hieroglyphics in the temple of Kom Ombos in Upper Egypt. But the exact situation of Caph"}, {"id": "card_n_0a57be27db93", "title": "Easton: Titus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Honourable, was with Paul and Barnabas at Antioch, and accompanied them to the council at Jerusalem (Gal. 2:1-3; Acts 15:2), although his name nowhere occurs in the Acts of the Apostles. He appears to"}]}