{"query": "Easton: Hope", "count": 18, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f510f74b1f7a", "title": "Easton: Hope", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the three main elements of Christian character (1 Cor. 13:13). It is joined to faith and love, and is opposed to seeing or possessing (Rom. 8:24; 1 John 3:2). “Hope is an essential and fundamen"}, {"id": "card_n_eaba1a8b2918", "title": "Easton: Achor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Trouble, a valley near Jericho, so called in consequence of the trouble which the sin of Achan caused Israel (Josh. 7:24, 26). The expression “valley of Achor” probably became proverbial for that whic"}, {"id": "card_n_4400e2a6cc9a", "title": "Easton: Assurance", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The resurrection of Jesus (Acts 17:31) is the “assurance” (Gr. pistis, generally rendered “faith”) or pledge God has given that his revelation is true and worthy of acceptance. The “full assurance [Gr"}, {"id": "card_n_73971d3aa279", "title": "Easton: Peter, First Epistle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This epistle is addressed to “the strangers scattered abroad”, i.e., to the Jews of the Dispersion (the Diaspora). Its object is to confirm its readers in the doctrines they had been already taught. P"}, {"id": "card_c_92bc5a6e0f59", "title": "Easton: Hope references John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references John. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_68507aa6572e", "title": "Easton: Hope cites Titus", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Titus 2:13 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_43c3bf54d89c", "title": "Easton: Hope cites 1 John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites 1 John 3:2; 1 John 3:3 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_a62dc5079ad9", "title": "Easton: Hypocrite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who puts on a mask and feigns himself to be what he is not; a dissembler in religion. Our Lord severely rebuked the scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisy (Matt. 6:2, 5, 16). “The hypocrite’s h"}, {"id": "card_n_8efafc64c265", "title": "Easton: Kirjath-huzoth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "City of streets, Num. 22:39, a Moabite city, which some identify with Kirjathaim. Balak here received and entertained Balaam, whom he had invited from Pethor, among the “mountains of the east,” beyond"}, {"id": "card_n_14097f8815e7", "title": "Easton: Anchor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From Acts 27:29, 30, 40, it would appear that the Roman vessels carried several anchors, which were attached to the stern as well as to the prow. The Roman anchor, like the modern one, had two teeth o"}, {"id": "card_n_646dfa6224c0", "title": "Easton: Fear of the Lord the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is in the Old Testament used as a designation of true piety (Prov. 1:7; Job 28:28; Ps. 19:9). It is a fear conjoined with love and hope, and is therefore not a slavish dread, but rather filial reveren"}, {"id": "card_n_969c25359f8c", "title": "Easton: Colossae", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Or Colosse, a city of Phrygia, on the Lycus, which is a tributary of the Maeander. It was about 12 miles above Laodicea, and near the great road from Ephesus to the Euphrates, and was consequently of "}, {"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_b53a6ffe5d4c", "title": "Easton: Zechariah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah is renowned or remembered. (1.) A prophet of Judah, the eleventh of the twelve minor prophets. Like Ezekiel, he was of priestly extraction. He describes himself (1:1) as “the son of Berechiah."}, {"id": "card_n_c1380e201728", "title": "Easton: Kadesh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Holy, or Kadesh-Barnea, sacred desert of wandering, a place on the south-eastern border of Palestine, about 165 miles from Horeb. It lay in the “wilderness” or “desert of Zin” (Gen. 14:7; Num. 13:3-26"}, {"id": "card_n_c6b09e6f09b6", "title": "Easton: Habakkuk, Prophecies of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Were probably written about B.C. 650-627, or, as some think, a few years later. This book consists of three chapters, the contents of which are thus comprehensively described: “When the prophet in spi"}, {"id": "card_n_8fe39337e3b8", "title": "Easton: Michmash", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Something hidden, a town of Benjamin (Ezra 2:27), east of Bethel and south of Migron, on the road to Jerusalem (Isa. 10:28). It lay on the line of march of an invading army from the north, on the nort"}, {"id": "card_n_efd92dd5f79e", "title": "Easton: Luke, Gospel according to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written by Luke. He does not claim to have been an eye-witness of our Lord’s ministry, but to have gone to the best sources of information within his reach, and to have written an orderly narrativ"}]}