{"query": "Easton: Cyprus", "count": 16, "results": [{"id": "card_n_4669537340e6", "title": "Easton: Cyprus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the largest islands of the Mediterranean, about 148 miles long and 40 broad. It is distant about 60 miles from the Syrian coast. It was the “Chittim” of the Old Testament (Num. 24:24). The Gree"}, {"id": "card_n_46c6c78b17ec", "title": "Easton: Sergius Paulus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A “prudent man” (R.V., “man of understanding”), the deputy (R.V., “proconsul”) of Cyprus (Acts 13:6-13). He became a convert to Christianity under Paul, who visited this island on his first mission to"}, {"id": "card_c_45bb42055239", "title": "Easton: Cyprus cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 4:36; Acts 21:3 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_4fa1817334c5", "title": "Easton: Salamis", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A city on the south-east coast of Cyprus (Acts 13:5), where Saul and Barnabas, on their first missionary journey, preached the word in one of the Jewish synagogues, of which there seem to have been se"}, {"id": "card_n_f4ca4e01c4e4", "title": "Easton: Mnason", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Reminding, or remembrancer, a Christian of Jerusalem with whom Paul lodged (Acts 21:16). He was apparently a native of Cyprus, like Barnabas (11:19, 20), and was well known to the Christians of Caesar"}, {"id": "card_c_95d79bc1ed6e", "title": "Easton: Cyprus references Antioch", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Antioch (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_f5a00c7e047b", "title": "Easton: Cyprus references Barnabas", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Barnabas (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_14c922a075ce", "title": "Easton: Cyprus 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_n_4954f5959622", "title": "Easton: Paphos", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The capital of the island of Cyprus, and therefore the residence of the Roman governor. It was visited by Paul and Barnabas on their first missionary tour (Acts 13:6). It is new Paphos which is here m"}, {"id": "card_n_aeaedd230237", "title": "Easton: Perga", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The capital of Pamphylia, on the coast of Asia Minor. Paul and his companions landed at this place from Cyprus on their first missionary journey (Acts 13:13, 14), and here Mark forsook the party and r"}, {"id": "card_n_2a4cde8be49b", "title": "Easton: Exorcist", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Acts 19:13). “In that sceptical and therefore superstitious age professional exorcist abounded. Many of these professional exorcists were disreputable Jews, like Simon in Samaria and Elymas in Cyprus"}, {"id": "card_n_cd6da3d389e4", "title": "Easton: Famine", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The first mentioned in Scripture was so grievous as to compel Abraham to go down to the land of Egypt (Gen. 26:1). Another is mentioned as having occurred in the days of Isaac, causing him to go to Ge"}, {"id": "card_n_bbcf7a23b420", "title": "Easton: Camphire", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. copher), mentioned in Cant. 1:14 (R.V., “henna-flowers”); 4:13 (R.V., “henna”), is the al-henna of the Arabs, a native of Egypt, producing clusters of small white and yellow odoriferous flowers,"}, {"id": "card_n_d5eef759c399", "title": "Easton: Chittim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Or Kittim, a plural form (Gen. 10:4), the name of a branch of the descendants of Javan, the “son” of Japheth. Balaam foretold (Num. 24:24) “that ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and afflict"}, {"id": "card_n_1e82be6143cd", "title": "Easton: Copper", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Derived from the Greek kupros (the island of Cyprus), called “Cyprian brass,” occurs only in the Authorized Version in Ezra 8:27. Elsewhere the Hebrew word (nehosheth) is improperly rendered “brass,” "}, {"id": "card_n_34ea8224bac3", "title": "Easton: Barnabas", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Son of consolation, the surname of Joses, a Levite (Acts 4:36). His name stands first on the list of prophets and teachers of the church at Antioch (13:1). Luke speaks of him as a “good man” (11:24). "}]}