{"query": "Easton: Familiar spirit", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f1079ac3e81b", "title": "Easton: Familiar spirit", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sorcerers or necormancers, who professed to call up the dead to answer questions, were said to have a “familiar spirit” (Deut. 18:11; 2 Kings 21:6; 2 Chr. 33:6; Lev. 19:31; 20:6; Isa. 8:19; 29:4). Suc"}, {"id": "card_n_9766c0affff9", "title": "Easton: Intercession of the Spirit", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Rom. 8:26, 27; John 14:26). “Christ is a royal Priest (Zech. 6:13). From the same throne, as King, he dispenses his Spirit to all the objects of his care, while as Priest he intercedes for them. The "}, {"id": "card_c_854b7fc9c954", "title": "Easton: Familiar spirit references Hebrews", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Hebrews. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_e270ade9cb96", "title": "Easton: Familiar spirit cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 21:6 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_dd828d283581", "title": "Easton: Familiar spirit cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 16:16 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_6834a2d4716a", "title": "Easton: Witness of the Spirit", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Rom. 8:16), the consciousness of the gracious operation of the Spirit on the mind, “a certitude of the Spirit’s presence and work continually asserted within us”, manifested “in his comforting us, hi"}, {"id": "card_n_d9ce8058d054", "title": "Easton: Witchcraft", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 Sam. 15:23; 2 Kings 9:22; 2 Chr. 33:6; Micah 5:12; Nahum 3:4; Gal. 5:20). In the popular sense of the word no mention is made either of witches or of witchcraft in Scripture. The “witch of En-dor” "}, {"id": "card_n_32bdaed09c82", "title": "Easton: Trinity", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A word not found in Scripture, but used to express the doctrine of the unity of God as subsisting in three distinct Persons. This word is derived from the Gr. trias, first used by Theophilus (A.D. 168"}, {"id": "card_n_20db105b14a4", "title": "Easton: Alms", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Not found in the Old Testament, but repeatedly in the New. The Mosaic legislation (Lev. 25:35; Deut. 15:7) tended to promote a spirit of charity, and to prevent the occurrence of destitution among the"}, {"id": "card_n_b5111ad94572", "title": "Easton: Earnest", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Spirit is the earnest of the believer’s destined inheritance (2 Cor. 1:22; 5:5; Eph. 1:14). The word thus rendered is the same as that rendered “pledge” in Gen. 38:17-20; “indeed, the Hebrew word "}, {"id": "card_n_48b778dd5047", "title": "Easton: Tongues, Gift of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Granted on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:4), in fulfilment of a promise Christ had made to his disciples (Mark 16:17). What this gift actually was has been a subject of much discussion. Some have argue"}, {"id": "card_n_a8806f1e8230", "title": "Easton: Lapidoth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Torches. Deborah is called “the wife of Lapidoth” (Judg. 4:4). Some have rendered the expression “a woman of a fiery spirit,” under the supposition that Lapidoth is not a proper name, a woman of a tor"}, {"id": "card_n_91113c8562eb", "title": "Easton: Ghost", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An old Saxon word equivalent to soul or spirit. It is the translation of the Hebrew nephesh_ and the Greek _pneuma, both meaning “breath,” “life,” “spirit,” the “living principle” (Job 11:20; Jer. 15:"}, {"id": "card_n_60e65c6dfbc0", "title": "Easton: Spirit", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ruah; Gr. pneuma), properly wind or breath. In 2 Thess. 2:8 it means “breath,” and in Eccl. 8:8 the vital principle in man. It also denotes the rational, immortal soul by which man is distinguis"}, {"id": "card_n_24ef2d7f180e", "title": "Easton: Hen", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Common in later times among the Jews in Palestine (Matt. 23:37; Luke 13:34). It is noticeable that this familiar bird is only mentioned in these passages in connection with our Lord’s lamentation over"}, {"id": "card_n_6cc7691634e0", "title": "Easton: Lord’s Prayer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to the only form of prayer Christ taught his disciples (Matt. 6:9-13). The closing doxology of the prayer is omitted by Luke (11:2-4), also in the R.V. of Matt. 6:13. This prayer contai"}, {"id": "card_n_d070a34c67cf", "title": "Easton: Word of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. 4:12, etc.). The Bible so called because the writers of its several books were God’s organs in communicating his will to men. It is his “word,” because he speaks to us in its sacred pages. Whate"}, {"id": "card_n_52bf2278f05b", "title": "Easton: Gift", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) An gratuity (Prov. 19:6) to secure favour (18:16; 21:14), a thank-offering (Num. 18:11), or a dowry (Gen. 34:12). (2.) An oblation or proppitatory gift (2Sa 8:2, 6; 1Ch 18:2, 6; 2Ch 26:8; Ps. 45:"}, {"id": "card_n_41fecb419994", "title": "Easton: Fruit", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A word as used in Scripture denoting produce in general, whether vegetable or animal. The Hebrews divided the fruits of the land into three classes:, (1.) The fruit of the field, “corn-fruit” (Heb. da"}, {"id": "card_n_1cd8ff22d726", "title": "Easton: Sanctification", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Involves more than a mere moral reformation of character, brought about by the power of the truth: it is the work of the Holy Spirit bringing the whole nature more and more under the influences of the"}]}