{"query": "Easton: Door-posts", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_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_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_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_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_440bae73759c", "title": "Exodus 12", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,\n2. “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.\n3. Speak to all the congregat"}, {"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_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"}, {"id": "card_n_a1e237176346", "title": "Devotional: Prayer: Lord, Make Me a Tool Worn to Your Hand", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "God what is next for me? I look for your light. I can’t see the way. Please make my way known. I do not want to spend my life in the wilderness. I seek your face.\n\nOpen the door to my next chapter O’ "}, {"id": "card_n_91d20a7bcef0", "title": "Easton: Bigthan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the eunuchs who “kept the door” in the court of Ahasuerus. With Teresh he conspired against the king’s life. Mordecai detected the conspiracy, and the culprits were hanged (Esther 2:21-23; 6:1-"}, {"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."}]}