{"query": "Easton: Day’s journey", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_822b5a119a23", "title": "Easton: Day’s journey", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The usual length of a day’s journey in the East, on camel or horseback, in six or eight hours, is about 25 or 30 miles. The “three days’ journey” mentioned in Ex. 3:18 is simply a journey which would "}, {"id": "card_n_f1a22c93a685", "title": "Easton: Journey", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A day’s journey in the East is from 16 to 20 miles (Num. 11:31). (2.) A Sabbath-day’s journey is 2,000 paces or yards from the city walls (Acts 1:12). According to Jewish tradition, it was the di"}, {"id": "card_n_35486821fc86", "title": "Easton: Sabbath day’s journey", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Supposed to be a distance of 2,000 cubits, or less than half-a-mile, the distance to which, according to Jewish tradition, it was allowable to travel on the Sabbath day without violating the law (Acts"}, {"id": "card_n_169ab095061e", "title": "Easton: Kibroth-hattaavah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The graves of the longing or of lust, one of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness. It was probably in the Wady Murrah, and has been identified with the Erweis el-Ebeirig, where the remains"}, {"id": "card_n_554cd3b48cc5", "title": "Easton: Juniper", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. rothem), called by the Arabs retem, and known as Spanish broom; ranked under the genus genista. It is a desert shrub, and abounds in many parts of Palestine. In the account of his journey from A"}, {"id": "card_n_9c24074fe17d", "title": "Easton: Day", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Jews reckoned the day from sunset to sunset (Lev. 23:32). It was originally divided into three parts (Ps. 55:17). “The heat of the day” (1 Sam. 11:11; Neh. 7:3) was at our nine o’clock, and “the c"}, {"id": "card_c_789f457605db", "title": "Easton: Sabbath day’s journey cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 1:12 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_ea1eb2bf8a62", "title": "Easton: Hour", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First found in Dan. 3:6; 4:19, 33;5:5. It is the rendering of the Chaldee shaah, meaning a “moment,” a “look.” It is used in the New Testament frequently to denote some determinate season (Matt. 8:13;"}, {"id": "card_n_a6a0538972a2", "title": "Easton: Derbe", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A small town on the eastern part of the upland plain of Lycaonia, about 20 miles from Lystra. Paul passed through Derbe on his route from Cilicia to Iconium, on his second missionary journey (Acts 16:"}, {"id": "card_n_39fb74a3b5b2", "title": "Easton: Pentecost", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I.e., “fiftieth”, found only in the New Testament (Acts 2:1; 20:16; 1 Cor. 16:8). The festival so named is first spoken of in Ex. 23:16 as “the feast of harvest,” and again in Ex. 34:22 as “the day of"}, {"id": "card_n_3aada1e2b5a3", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_023: The day now approaching whereon she was to depart this life (which day Thou w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The day now approaching whereon she was to depart this life (which day Thou well knewest, we knew not), it came to pass, Thyself, as I believe, by Thy secret ways so ordering it, that she and I stood "}, {"id": "card_c_b71e91b1a67c", "title": "Easton: Day’s journey references East", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions East (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_63ec05304416", "title": "Easton: Beth-phage", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "House of the unripe fig, a village on the Mount of Olives, on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho (Matt. 21:1; Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29), and very close to Bethany. It was the limit of a Sabbath-day’s jou"}, {"id": "card_c_15f0b117a919", "title": "Easton: Sabbath day’s journey references Sabbath", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Sabbath (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_db6466823b72", "title": "Easton: Atonement, Day of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The great annual day of humiliation and expiation for the sins of the nation, “the fast” (Acts 27:9), and the only one commanded in the law of Moses. The mode of its observance is described in Lev. 16"}, {"id": "card_n_aec2227411bb", "title": "Easton: Circumcision", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cutting around. This rite, practised before, as some think, by divers races, was appointed by God to be the special badge of his chosen people, an abiding sign of their consecration to him. It was est"}, {"id": "card_n_39d02442bb0b", "title": "Easton: Dew", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“There is no dew properly so called in Palestine, for there is no moisture in the hot summer air to be chilled into dew-drops by the coldness of the night. From May till October rain is unknown, the s"}, {"id": "card_n_b0fbbec3a8f1", "title": "Easton: Lord’s day", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Only once, in Rev. 1:10, was in the early Christian ages used to denote the first day of the week, which commemorated the Lord’s resurrection. There is every reason to conclude that John thus used the"}, {"id": "card_n_114f779f9d18", "title": "Easton: Thessalonica", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A large and populous city on the Thermaic bay. It was the capital of one of the four Roman districts of Macedonia, and was ruled by a praetor. It was named after Thessalonica, the wife of Cassander, w"}, {"id": "card_n_975987a47210", "title": "Easton: Scapegoat", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lev. 16:8-26; R.V., “the goat for Azazel” (q.v.), the name given to the goat which was taken away into the wilderness on the day of Atonement (16:20-22). The priest made atonement over the scapegoat, "}]}