{"query": "Easton: Cup-bearer", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_3d3a69056bb1", "title": "Easton: Cup-bearer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An officer of high rank with Egyptian, Persian, Assyrian, and Jewish monarchs. The cup-bearer of the king of Egypt is mentioned in connection with Joseph’s history (Gen. 40:1-21; 41:9). Rabshakeh (q.v"}, {"id": "card_n_1fb24ce8a471", "title": "Easton: Cup", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A wine-cup (Gen. 40:11, 21), various forms of which are found on Assyrian and Egyptian monuments. All Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold (1 Kings 10: 21). The cups mentioned in the New Testament "}, {"id": "card_n_336f91e9fbd2", "title": "Easton: Butler", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Properly a servant in charge of the wine (Gen. 40:1-13; 41:9). The Hebrew word, mashkeh, thus translated is rendered also (plural) “cup-bearers” (1 Kings 10:5; 2 Chr. 9:4). Nehemiah (1:11) was cup-bea"}, {"id": "card_c_8fc96e200d46", "title": "Easton: Cup-bearer cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 18:17 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_a9d5a1cb7b8c", "title": "Easton: Cup-bearer cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 10:5 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_47e628d2a3ab", "title": "Easton: Cup-bearer references Egypt", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Egypt (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_df9c7f8e97ad", "title": "Easton: Rabshakeh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Chief of the princes, the name given to the chief cup-bearer or the vizier of the Assyrian court; one of Sennacherib’s messengers to Hezekiah. See the speech he delivered, in the Hebrew language, in t"}, {"id": "card_n_32eb82a23d70", "title": "Easton: Nehemiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Comforted by Jehovah. (1.) Ezra 2:2; Neh. 7:7. (2.) Neh. 3:16. (3.) The son of Hachaliah (Neh. 1:1), and probably of the tribe of Judah. His family must have belonged to Jerusalem (Neh. 2:3). He was o"}, {"id": "card_n_f01d74090f88", "title": "Easton: Armour-bearer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An officer selected by kings and generals because of his bravery, not only to bear their armour, but also to stand by them in the time of danger. They were the adjutants of our modern armies (Judg. 9:"}, {"id": "card_n_096b4b14fba0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_010: And for almost all those nine years, wherein with unsettled mind I had been t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And for almost all those nine years, wherein with unsettled mind I had been their disciple, I had longed but too intensely for the coming of this Faustus. For the rest of the sect, whom by chance I ha"}, {"id": "card_n_e8edbb21211b", "title": "Easton: Seneh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The acacia; rock-thorn, the southern cliff in the Wady es-Suweinit, a valley south of Michmash, which Jonathan climbed with his armour-bearer (1 Sam. 14:4, 5). The rock opposite, on the other side of "}, {"id": "card_n_29e904269a60", "title": "Easton: Phebe", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A “deaconess of the church at Cenchrea,” the port of Corinth. She was probably the bearer of Paul’s epistle to the Romans. Paul commended her to the Christians at Rome; “for she hath been,” says he, “"}, {"id": "card_n_59ac60caaf69", "title": "Easton: Epaphroditus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fair, graceful; belonging to Aphrodite or Venus the messenger who came from Phillipi to the apostle when he was a prisoner at Rome (Phil. 2:25-30; 4:10-18). Paul mentions him in words of esteem and af"}, {"id": "card_n_7bf853034fae", "title": "Easton: Bernice", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Bearer of victory, the eldest daughter of Agrippa I., the Herod Agrippa of Acts 12:20. After the early death of her first husband she was married to her uncle Herod, king of Chalcis. After his death ("}, {"id": "card_c_ce4fedbaf39c", "title": "Easton: Cup references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_60bcb25f88c7", "title": "Easton: Cup cites Mark", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Mark 9:1 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_1048570f6b8d", "title": "Easton: Cup cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 18:11 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_881a69e2c169", "title": "Easton: Cup cites Luke", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Luke 22:17 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_8db09f984529", "title": "Easton: Inkhorn", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hebrew word so rendered means simply a round vessel or cup for containing ink, which was generally worn by writers in the girdle (Ezek. 9:2, 3, 11). The word “inkhorn” was used by the translators,"}, {"id": "card_n_a2becb691a05", "title": "Easton: Gemariah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah has made perfect. (1.) The son of Shaphan, and one of the Levites of the temple in the time of Jehoiakim (Jer. 36:10; 2 Kings 22:12). Baruch read aloud to the people from Gemariah’s chamber, a"}]}