{"query": "Easton: Heathen", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_84d0c51936f1", "title": "Easton: Heathen", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. plural goyum). At first the word goyim denoted generally all the nations of the world (Gen. 18:18; comp. Gal. 3:8). The Jews afterwards became a people distinguished in a marked manner from the "}, {"id": "card_n_f00240775d03", "title": "Easton: Drink-offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consisted of wine (Num. 15:5; Hos. 9:4) poured around the altar (Ex. 30:9). Joined with meat-offerings (Num. 6:15, 17; 2 Kings 16:13; Joel 1:9, 13; 2:14), presented daily (Ex. 29:40), on the Sabbath ("}, {"id": "card_n_df68c9d261cd", "title": "Easton: Idolatry", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Image-worship or divine honour paid to any created object. Paul describes the origin of idolatry in Rom. 1:21-25: men forsook God, and sank into ignorance and moral corruption (1:28). The forms of ido"}, {"id": "card_n_eeb3273afc89", "title": "Easton: Jezebel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Chaste, the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of the Zidonians, and the wife of Ahab, the king of Israel (1 Kings 16:31). This was the “first time that a king of Israel had allied himself by marriage with"}, {"id": "card_c_7f721158a93a", "title": "Easton: Heathen references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_d1eb293bff47", "title": "Easton: Heathen cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 11:2 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_3d07bf3fb3f9", "title": "Easton: Heathen cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 22:21 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_2c8ff9de8e8c", "title": "Easton: Garlands", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Acts 14:13). In heathen sacrifices the victims were adorned with fillets and garlands made of wool, with leaves and flowers interwoven. The altar and the priests and attendants were also in like mann"}, {"id": "card_n_7cb72e89c54b", "title": "Easton: Forces", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of the Gentiles (Isa. 60:5, 11; R.V., “the wealth of the nations”) denotes the wealth of the heathen. The whole passage means that the wealth of the Gentile world should be consecrated to the service "}, {"id": "card_n_89403baca699", "title": "Easton: Mercurius", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hermes (i.e., “the speaker”) of the Greeks (Acts 14:12), a heathen God represented as the constant attendant of Jupiter, and the god of eloquence. The inhabitants of Lystra took Paul for this god "}, {"id": "card_c_79fb5ad2c650", "title": "Easton: Heathen references Amorites", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Amorites (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_n_90277a772ad1", "title": "Easton: Physician", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Asa, afflicted with some bodily malady, “sought not to the Lord but to the physicians” (2 Chr. 16:12). The “physicians” were those who “practised heathen arts of magic, disavowing recognized methods o"}, {"id": "card_n_90060f4405b0", "title": "Easton: Concision", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. katatome; i.e., “mutilation”), a term used by Paul contemptuously of those who were zealots for circumcision (Phil. 3:2). Instead of the warning, “Beware of the circumcision” (peritome) i.e., of "}, {"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_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_f816e9c29cca", "title": "Easton: Conversion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The turning of a sinner to God (Acts 15:3). In a general sense the heathen are said to be “converted” when they abandon heathenism and embrace the Christian faith; and in a more special sense men are "}, {"id": "card_n_4d974cdf43bd", "title": "Easton: Gaius", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A Macedonian, Paul’s fellow-traveller, and his host at Corinth when he wrote his Epistle to the Romans (16:23). He with his household were baptized by Paul (1 Cor. 1:14). During a heathen outbrea"}, {"id": "card_n_54ab3b8289d7", "title": "Easton: Jonah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A dove, the son of Amittai of Gath-hepher. He was a prophet of Israel, and predicted the restoration of the ancient boundaries (2 Kings 14:25-27) of the kingdom. He exercised his ministry very early i"}, {"id": "card_n_46c6c78b17ec", "title": "Easton: Sergius Paulus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A “prudent man” (R.V., “man of understanding”), the deputy (R.V., “proconsul”) of Cyprus (Acts 13:6-13). He became a convert to Christianity under Paul, who visited this island on his first mission to"}, {"id": "card_n_52a53c8f7862", "title": "Easton: Zerah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sunrise. (1.) An “Ethiopian,” probably Osorkon II., the successor of Shishak on the throne of Egypt. With an enormous army, the largest we read of in Scripture, he invaded the kingdom of Judah in the "}]}