{"query": "Easton: Greek", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_89a43780807f", "title": "Easton: Greek", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Found only in the New Testament, where a distinction is observed between “Greek” and “Grecian” (q.v.). The former is (1) a Greek by race (Acts 16:1-3; 18:17; Rom. 1:14), or (2) a Gentile as opposed to"}, {"id": "card_n_3cfe5051d3f2", "title": "Easton: Stoics", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A sect of Greek philosophers at Athens, so called from the Greek word stoa i.e., a “porch” or “portico,” where they have been called “the Pharisees of Greek paganism.” The founder of the Stoics was Ze"}, {"id": "card_n_6700c8576903", "title": "Easton: Hymn", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Occurs only Eph. 5:19 and Col. 3:16. The verb to “sing an hymn” occurs Matt. 26:30 and Mark 14:26. The same Greek word is rendered to “sing praises” Acts 16:25 (R.V., “sing hymns”) and Heb. 2:12. The "}, {"id": "card_n_860dacfc4990", "title": "Easton: Measure", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Several words are so rendered in the Authorized Version. (1.) Those which are indefinite. (a) Hok, Isa. 5:14, elsewhere “statute.” (b) Mad, Job 11:9; Jer. 13:25, elsewhere “garment.” (c) Middah, the w"}, {"id": "card_n_c25ea3bc4630", "title": "Easton: Minister", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who serves, as distinguished from the master. (1.) Heb. meshereth, applied to an attendant on one of superior rank, as to Joshua, the servant of Moses (Ex. 33:11), and to the servant of Elisha (2 "}, {"id": "card_n_c4daf1711ed6", "title": "Easton: Genesis", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The five books of Moses were collectively called the Pentateuch, a word of Greek origin meaning “the five-fold book.” The Jews called them the Torah, i.e., “the law.” It is probable that the division "}, {"id": "card_n_2133c346ee9b", "title": "Easton: Love", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word seems to require explanation only in the case of its use by our Lord in his interview with “Simon, the son of Jonas,” after his resurrection (John 21:16, 17). When our Lord says, “Lovest tho"}, {"id": "card_n_aa64616387f0", "title": "Easton: Gentiles", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb., usually in plural, goyim), meaning in general all nations except the Jews. In course of time, as the Jews began more and more to pride themselves on their peculiar privileges, it acquired unple"}, {"id": "card_n_a6dd2565ceb7", "title": "Easton: Barbarian", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Greek word used in the New Testament (Rom. 1:14) to denote one of another nation. In Col. 3:11, the word more definitely designates those nations of the Roman empire that did not speak Greek. In 1 C"}, {"id": "card_n_bcbf8b344ab3", "title": "Easton: Dram", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Authorized Version understood the word ‘adarkonim (1 Chr. 29:7; Ezra 8:27), and the similar word darkomnim (Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:70), as equivalent to the Greek silver coin the drachma. But the Revis"}, {"id": "card_n_24440b81a9ae", "title": "Easton: Advocate", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. parakletos), one who pleads another’s cause, who helps another by defending or comforting him. It is a name given by Christ three times to the Holy Ghost (John 14:16; 15:26; 16:7, where the Greek"}, {"id": "card_n_00343224ea02", "title": "Easton: Slave", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jer. 2:14 (A.V.), but not there found in the original. In Rev. 18:13 the word “slaves” is the rendering of a Greek word meaning “bodies.” The Hebrew and Greek words for slave are usually rendered simp"}, {"id": "card_n_a67b94794cd8", "title": "Easton: Pieces", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1) of silver. In Ps. 68:30 denotes “fragments,” and not properly money. In 1 Sam. 2:36 (Heb. agorah), properly a “small sum” as wages, weighed rather than coined. Josh. 24:32 (Heb. kesitah, q.v.), su"}, {"id": "card_n_7c3d825d8576", "title": "Easton: Guard", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. tabbah (properly a “cook,” and in a secondary sense “executioner,” because this office fell to the lot of the cook in Eastern countries), the bodyguard of the kings of Egypt (Gen. 37:36) and"}, {"id": "card_n_e594af270f6a", "title": "Easton: Magistrate", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A public civil officer invested with authority. The Hebrew shophetim, or judges, were magistrates having authority in the land (Deut. 1:16, 17). In Judg. 18:7 the word “magistrate” (A.V.) is rendered "}, {"id": "card_n_21a9445c6c76", "title": "Easton: Leprosy", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. tsara’ath, a “smiting,” a “stroke,” because the disease was regarded as a direct providential infliction). This name is from the Greek lepra, by which the Greek physicians designated the disease"}, {"id": "card_n_f9fcf13f7c5d", "title": "Easton: Man", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. ‘Adam, used as the proper name of the first man. The name is derived from a word meaning “to be red,” and thus the first man was called Adam because he was formed from the red earth. It is a"}, {"id": "card_n_df1c4e29f598", "title": "Easton: Ethiopia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Country of burnt faces; the Greek word by which the Hebrew Cush is rendered (Gen. 2:13; 2 Kings 19:9; Esther 1:1; Job 28:19; Ps. 68:31; 87:4), a country which lay to the south of Egypt, beginning at S"}, {"id": "card_n_63d52412a710", "title": "Easton: Decalogue", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given by the Greek fathers to the ten commandments; “the ten words,” as the original is more literally rendered (Ex. 20:3-17). These commandments were at first written on two stone slabs (31:"}, {"id": "card_n_535c5ff540ee", "title": "Easton: Lord", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are various Hebrew and Greek words so rendered. (1.) Heb. Jehovah, has been rendered in the English Bible LORD, printed in small capitals. This is the proper name of the God of the Hebrews. The "}]}