{"query": "Easton: Cross", "count": 18, "results": [{"id": "card_n_eb53cb35ed0b", "title": "Easton: Cross", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In the New Testament the instrument of crucifixion, and hence used for the crucifixion of Christ itself (Eph. 2:16; Heb. 12:2; 1 Cor. 1:17, 18; Gal. 5:11; 6:12, 14; Phil. 3:18). The word is also used "}, {"id": "card_n_74d12d41f383", "title": "Easton: Offence", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) An injury or wrong done to one (1 Sam. 25:31; Rom. 5:15). (2.) A stumbling-block or cause of temptation (Isa. 8:14; Matt. 16:23; 18:7). Greek skandalon, properly that at which one stumbles or tak"}, {"id": "card_n_5b2f31bc921b", "title": "Easton: Crucifixion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A common mode of punishment among heathen nations in early times. It is not certain whether it was known among the ancient Jews; probably it was not. The modes of capital punishment according to the M"}, {"id": "card_c_37d50e7d54d8", "title": "Easton: Cross references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_2cd08755e8fb", "title": "Easton: Cross cites Mark", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Mark 8:34 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_77a96dddd02f", "title": "Easton: Thieves, The two", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Luke 23:32, 39-43), robbers, rather brigands, probably followers of Barabbas. Our Lord’s cross was placed between those of the “malefactors,” to add to the ignominy of his position. According to trad"}, {"id": "card_n_53c58898fc80", "title": "Easton: A", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet, as Omega is the last. These letters occur in the text of Rev. 1:8, 11; 21:6; 22:13, and are represented by “Alpha” and “Omega” respectively (omitted in R"}, {"id": "card_n_71788397837a", "title": "Easton: Rufus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Red, the son of Simon the Cyrenian (Mark 15:21), whom the Roman soldiers compelled to carry the cross on which our Lord was crucified. Probably it is the same person who is again mentioned in Rom. 16:"}, {"id": "card_n_31d53f126a07", "title": "Easton: Beam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Occurs in the Authorized Version as the rendering of various Hebrew words. In 1 Sam. 17:7, it means a weaver’s frame or principal beam; in Hab. 2:11, a crossbeam or girder; 2 Kings 6:2, 5, a cross-pie"}, {"id": "card_n_1e708238853c", "title": "Easton: Wandering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of the Israelites in the wilderness in consequence of their rebellious fears to enter the Promised Land (Num. 14:26-35). They wandered for forty years before they were permitted to cross the Jordan (J"}, {"id": "card_n_72c137732083", "title": "Easton: Alexander", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Man-defender. (1.) A relative of Annas the high priest, present when Peter and John were examined before the Sanhedrim (Acts 4:6). (2.) A man whose father, Simon the Cyrenian, bore the cross of Christ"}, {"id": "card_n_3fa5b704d071", "title": "Easton: Meals", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Are at the present day “eaten from a round table little higher than a stool, guests sitting cross-legged on mats or small carpets in a circle, and dipping their fingers into one large dish heaped with"}, {"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_40daef999889", "title": "Easton: Nail", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "For fastening. (1.) Hebrew yathed, “piercing,” a peg or nail of any material (Ezek. 15:3), more especially a tent-peg (Ex. 27:19; 35:18; 38:20), with one of which Jael (q.v.) pierced the temples of Si"}, {"id": "card_n_9d61252391b5", "title": "Easton: Simeon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hearing. (1.) The second son of Jacob by Leah (Gen. 29:33). He was associated with Levi in the terrible act of vengeance against Hamor and the Shechemites (34:25, 26). He was detained by Joseph in Egy"}, {"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_49c58db7d30d", "title": "Easton: Rahab", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Insolence; pride, a poetical name applied to Egypt in Ps. 87:4; 89:10; Isa. 51:9, as “the proud one.” Rahab, (Heb. Rahab; i.e., “broad,” “large”). When the Hebrews were encamped at Shittim, in the “Ar"}, {"id": "card_n_8658e42c6d01", "title": "Easton: Darkness", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The plague (the ninth) of darkness in Egypt (Ex. 10:21) is described as darkness “which may be felt.” It covered “all the land of Egypt,” so that “they saw not one another.” It did not extend to the l"}]}