{"query": "Easton: Elder", "count": 19, "results": [{"id": "card_n_146eb6567951", "title": "Easton: Elder", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A name frequently used in the Old Testament as denoting a person clothed with authority, and entitled to respect and reverence (Gen. 50:7). It also denoted a political office (Num. 22:7). The “elders "}, {"id": "card_n_6ad984990288", "title": "Easton: Shem", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A name; renown, the first mentioned of the sons of Noah (Gen. 5:32; 6:10). He was probably the eldest of Noah’s sons. The words “brother of Japheth the elder” in Gen. 10:21 are more correctly rendered"}, {"id": "card_c_5403d5b666ee", "title": "Easton: Elder references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_10206e48bf2f", "title": "Easton: Elder cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 20:28; Acts 20:17 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_a84a91d5eb7c", "title": "Easton: Elder cites Titus", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Titus 1:5 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_6bc4beb2e9b2", "title": "Easton: Pharez", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Breach, the elder of the twin sons of Judah (Gen. 38:29). From him the royal line of David sprang (Ruth 4:18-22). “The chief of all the captains of the host” was of the children of Perez (1 Chr. 27:3;"}, {"id": "card_n_aa3f3b626acf", "title": "Easton: Father", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A name applied (1) to any ancestor (Deut. 1:11; 1 Kings 15:11; Matt. 3:9; 23:30, etc.); and (2) as a title of respect to a chief, ruler, or elder, etc. (Judg. 17:10; 18:19; 1 Sam. 10:12; 2 Kings 2:12;"}, {"id": "card_n_9330b5966e58", "title": "Easton: Bishop", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An overseer. In apostolic times, it is quite manifest that there was no difference as to order between bishops and elders or presbyters (Acts 20:17-28; 1 Pet. 5:1, 2; Phil. 1:1; 1 Tim. 3). The term bi"}, {"id": "card_n_b42234543200", "title": "Easton: Ephraim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Double fruitfulness (“for God had made him fruitful in the land of his affliction”). The second son of Joseph, born in Egypt (Gen. 41:52; 46:20). The first incident recorded regarding him is his being"}, {"id": "card_n_ef77668566cf", "title": "Easton: Nahor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Snorting. (1.) The father of Terah, who was the father of Abraham (Gen. 11:22-25; Luke 3:34). (2.) A son of Terah, and elder brother of Abraham (Gen. 11:26, 27; Josh. 24:2, R.V.). He married Milcah, t"}, {"id": "card_n_875ac72b0eb6", "title": "Easton: Gershom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Expulsion. (1.) The eldest son of Levi (1 Chr. 6:16, 17, 20, 43, 62, 71; 15:7)=GERSHON (q.v.). (2.) The elder of the two sons of Moses born to him in Midian (Ex. 2:22; 18:3). On his way to Egypt with "}, {"id": "card_n_f8ee3ddca873", "title": "Easton: Gallio", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The elder brother of Seneca the philosopher, who was tutor and for some time minister of the emperor Nero. He was “deputy”, i.e., proconsul, as in Revised Version, of Achaia, under the emperor Claudiu"}, {"id": "card_n_da1bdffc042b", "title": "Easton: Abihu", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Father of Him; i.e., “worshipper of God”, the second of the sons of Aaron (Ex. 6:23; Num. 3:2; 26:60; 1 Chr. 6:3). Along with his three brothers he was consecrated to the priest’s office (Ex. 28:1). W"}, {"id": "card_n_9ca93b6e7db6", "title": "Easton: Adonijah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "My Lord is Jehovah. (1.) The fourth son of David (2 Sam. 3:4). After the death of his elder brothers, Amnon and Absalom, he became heir-apparent to the throne. But Solomon, a younger brother, was pref"}, {"id": "card_n_3518360ca86c", "title": "Easton: James", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The son of Zebedee and Salome; an elder brother of John the apostle. He was one of the twelve. He was by trade a fisherman, in partnership with Peter (Matt. 20:20; 27:56). With John and Peter he "}, {"id": "card_n_f2876a283a4f", "title": "Easton: Solomon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Peaceful, (Heb. Shelomoh), David’s second son by Bathsheba, i.e., the first after their legal marriage (2 Sam. 12). He was probably born about B.C. 1035 (1 Chr. 22:5; 29:1). He succeeded his father on"}, {"id": "card_n_f47042634e52", "title": "Easton: Manasseh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Who makes to forget. “God hath made me forget” (Heb. nashshani), Gen. 41:51. (1.) The elder of the two sons of Joseph. He and his brother Ephraim were afterwards adopted by Jacob as his own sons (48:1"}, {"id": "card_n_fa1569ce6abf", "title": "Easton: Joseph", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Remover or increaser. (1.) The elder of the two sons of Jacob by Rachel (Gen. 30:23, 24), who, on the occasion of his birth, said, “God hath taken away [Heb. ‘asaph] my reproach.” “The Lord shall add "}, {"id": "card_n_16df043077e1", "title": "Easton: Herod Agrippa I.", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Son of Aristobulus and Bernice, and grandson of Herod the Great. He was made tetrarch of the provinces formerly held by Lysanias II., and ultimately possessed the entire kingdom of his grandfather, He"}]}