{"query": "Easton: Date", "count": 14, "results": [{"id": "card_n_915917bcd1fb", "title": "Easton: Revelation, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=The Apocalypse, the closing book and the only prophetical book of the New Testament canon. The author of this book was undoubtedly John the apostle. His name occurs four times in the book itself (1:1"}, {"id": "card_n_ee40161c27ff", "title": "Easton: Date", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The fruit of a species of palm (q.v.), the Phoenix dactilifera. This was a common tree in Palestine (Joel 1:12; Neh. 8:15). Palm branches were carried by the Jews on festive occasions, and especially "}, {"id": "card_c_9b36889ea2d3", "title": "Easton: Date cites Joel", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Joel 1:12 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_97e226c780a2", "title": "Easton: Date references Palestine", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Palestine (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_2f7565d1203f", "title": "Easton: Arch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An architectural term found only in Ezek. 40:16, 21, 22, 26, 29. There is no absolute proof that the Israelites employed arches in their buildings. The arch was employed in the building of the pyramid"}, {"id": "card_n_f88a2c64e5b0", "title": "Easton: Asshur", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Second son of Shem (Gen. 10:22; 1 Chr. 1:17). He went from the land of Shinar and built Nineveh, etc. (Gen. 10:11, 12). He probably gave his name to Assyria, which is the usual translation of the word"}, {"id": "card_n_da60afdc482a", "title": "Easton: Chronology", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is the arrangement of facts and events in the order of time. The writers of the Bible themselves do not adopt any standard era according to which they date events. Sometimes the years are reckoned, e."}, {"id": "card_n_f419a8e795cf", "title": "Easton: Luke", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The evangelist, was a Gentile. The date and circumstances of his conversion are unknown. According to his own statement (Luke 1:2), he was not an “eye-witness and minister of the word from the beginni"}, {"id": "card_n_058570f8c25e", "title": "Easton: Obadiah, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consists of one chapter, “concerning Edom,” its impending doom (1:1-16), and the restoration of Israel (1:17-21). This is the shortest book of the Old Testament. There are on record the account of fou"}, {"id": "card_n_3fb94a85bd2c", "title": "Easton: Palm tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. tamar), the date-palm characteristic of Palestine. It is described as “flourishing” (Ps. 92:12), tall (Cant. 7:7), “upright” (Jer. 10:5). Its branches are a symbol of victory (Rev. 7:9). “Rising"}, {"id": "card_n_35cbbc002896", "title": "Easton: Hebrews, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Its canonicity. All the results of critical and historical research to which this epistle has been specially subjected abundantly vindicate its right to a place in the New Testament canon among t"}, {"id": "card_n_28fbf21abcaa", "title": "Easton: Ecclesiastes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Greek rendering of the Hebrew Koheleth, which means “Preacher.” The old and traditional view of the authorship of this book attributes it to Solomon. This view can be satisfactorily maintained, th"}, {"id": "card_n_d37649c81c16", "title": "Easton: Nehemiah, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The author of this book was no doubt Nehemiah himself. There are portions of the book written in the first person (ch. 1-7; 12:27-47, and 13). But there are also portions of it in which Nehemiah is sp"}, {"id": "card_n_23ddfa0652b0", "title": "Easton: Acts of the Apostles", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The title now given to the fifth and last of the historical books of the New Testament. The author styles it a “treatise” (1:1). It was early called “The Acts,” “The Gospel of the Holy Ghost,” and “Th"}]}