{"query": "Easton: Door-keeper", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d07cde39d4e7", "title": "Easton: Door-keeper", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word is used in Ps. 84:10 (R.V. marg., “stand at the threshold of,” etc.), but there it signifies properly “sitting at the threshold in the house of God.” The psalmist means that he would rather "}, {"id": "card_c_53f796ebd878", "title": "Easton: Door-keeper cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 12:13 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_9c22e478e624", "title": "Easton: Door-keeper cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 18:16 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_0ae03ccbda7e", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §83: Then the Interpreter took him, and led him up towards the door of the palace; and behol...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Then the Interpreter took him, and led him up towards the door of the palace; and behold, at the door stood a great company of men, as desirous to go in; but durst not. There also sat a man at a littl"}, {"id": "card_n_e613a49342d0", "title": "Easton: Doors", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Moved on pivots of wood fastened in sockets above and below (Prov. 26:14). They were fastened by a lock (Judg. 3:23, 25; Cant. 5:5) or by a bar (Judg. 16:3; Job 38:10). In the interior of Oriental hou"}, {"id": "card_n_98fd35846353", "title": "John 10", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.\n2. But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of th"}, {"id": "card_n_d7b031a240cf", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §292: Well, on Saturday, about midnight, they began to pray, and continued in prayer till alm...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Well, on Saturday, about midnight, they began to pray, and continued in prayer till almost break of day. Now a little before it was day, good Christian, as one half amazed, brake out in passionate spe"}, {"id": "card_n_823cd1eea651", "title": "Easton: Door-posts", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Jews were commanded to write the divine name on the posts (mezuzoth’) of their doors (Deut. 6:9). The Jews, misunderstanding this injunction, adopted the custom of writing on a slip of parchment t"}, {"id": "card_n_7021e41a3c90", "title": "Easton: Host", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An entertainer (Rom. 16:23); a tavern-keeper, the keeper of a caravansary (Luke 10:35). In warfare, a troop or military force. This consisted at first only of infantry. Solomon afterwards added cavalr"}, {"id": "card_n_043d2ef601b6", "title": "Easton: Lintel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. mashkoph, a projecting cover (Ex. 12:22, 23; ver. 7, “upper door post,” but R.V. “lintel”); the head-piece of a door, which the Israelites were commanded to mark with the blood of the pascha"}, {"id": "card_n_1502d056b03f", "title": "Easton: Bar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Used to denote the means by which a door is bolted (Neh. 3:3); a rock in the sea (Jonah 2:6); the shore of the sea (Job 38:10); strong fortifications and powerful impediments, etc. (Isa. 45:2; Amos 1:"}, {"id": "card_n_8ef5a09a7a77", "title": "Easton: Threshold", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. miphtan, probably a projecting beam at a higher point than the threshold proper (1 Sam. 5:4, 5; Ezek. 9:3; 10:4, 18; 46:2; 47:1); also rendered “door” and “door-post.” (2.) ‘Asuppim, pl. (Ne"}, {"id": "card_n_85b51b9875ad", "title": "Easton: Shallum", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Retribution. (1.) The son of Jabesh, otherwise unknown. He “conspired against Zachariah, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead” (2 Kings 15:10). He reigned only “a mo"}, {"id": "card_n_3f0cb00773d5", "title": "Revelation 3:20", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with me."}, {"id": "card_n_2d5acfac2f70", "title": "Easton: Leaf", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of a tree. The olive-leaf mentioned Gen. 8:11. The barren fig-tree had nothing but leaves (Matt. 21:19; Mark 11:13). The oak-leaf is mentioned Isa. 1:30; 6:13. There are numerous allusions to leaves, "}, {"id": "card_n_0ef59894726c", "title": "Devotional: The One Door", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Stillness before God allows us to hear His voice. Jesus is the only way, the only door, and His sacrifice alone makes us right with the Father.\n\nWhen we recognize this, our trust deepens. We live as l"}, {"id": "card_n_95cc8f265c1d", "title": "Easton: Knock", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“Though Orientals are very jealous of their privacy, they never knock when about to enter your room, but walk in without warning or ceremony. It is nearly impossible to teach an Arab servant to knock "}, {"id": "card_n_a319c7aa177c", "title": "Easton: Nazarite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. form Nazirite), the name of such Israelites as took on them the vow prescribed in Num. 6:2-21. The word denotes generally one who is separated from others and consecrated to God. Although there "}, {"id": "card_n_5d517d027d18", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_002: When then my mother had once, as she was wont in Afric, brought to the Church...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "When then my mother had once, as she was wont in Afric, brought to the Churches built in memory of the Saints, certain cakes, and bread and wine, and was forbidden by the door-keeper; so soon as she k"}, {"id": "card_n_a33a1eefd306", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §302: Then I saw in my dream, that the Shepherds had them to another place, in a bottom, wher...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Then I saw in my dream, that the Shepherds had them to another place, in a bottom, where was a door in the side of a hill, and they opened the door, and bid them look in. They looked in, therefore, an"}]}