{"query": "Easton: Island", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_193f001093b8", "title": "Easton: Melita", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Acts 27:28), an island in the Mediterranean, the modern Malta. Here the ship in which Paul was being conveyed a prisoner to Rome was wrecked. The bay in which it was wrecked now bears the name of “St"}, {"id": "card_n_4954f5959622", "title": "Easton: Paphos", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The capital of the island of Cyprus, and therefore the residence of the Roman governor. It was visited by Paul and Barnabas on their first missionary tour (Acts 13:6). It is new Paphos which is here m"}, {"id": "card_n_b6199eeeb155", "title": "Easton: Island", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ‘i, “dry land,” as opposed to water) occurs in its usual signification (Isa. 42:4, 10, 12, 15, comp. Jer. 47:4), but more frequently simply denotes a maritime region or sea-coast (Isa. 20:6, R.V"}, {"id": "card_n_f6b86d9d67df", "title": "Easton: Publius", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“the chief man of the island” of Malta (Acts 28:7), who courteously entertained Paul and his shipwrecked companions for three days, till they found a more permanent place of residence; for they remain"}, {"id": "card_n_264c58c17cd0", "title": "Easton: Patmos", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A small rocky and barren island, one of the group called the “Sporades,” in the AEgean Sea. It is mentioned in Scripture only in Rev. 1:9. It was on this island, to which John was banished by the empe"}, {"id": "card_n_2cd22a6c554f", "title": "Easton: Crete", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Now called Candia, one of the largest islands in the Meditterranean, about 140 miles long and 35 broad. It was at one time a very prosperous and populous island, having a “hundred cities.” The charact"}, {"id": "card_n_181ba0e5ff03", "title": "Easton: Argob", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Stony heap, an “island,” as it has been called, of rock about 30 miles by 20, rising 20 or 30 feet above the table-land of Bashan; a region of crags and chasms wild and rugged in the extreme. On this "}, {"id": "card_n_5ebbe8cbd323", "title": "Easton: Samos", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An island in the AEgean Sea, which Paul passed on his voyage from Assos to Miletus (Acts 20:15), on his third missionary journey. It is about 27 miles long and 20 broad, and lies about 42 miles south-"}, {"id": "card_n_acd5d25b3bb9", "title": "Easton: Arvad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Wandering, (Ezek. 27:8), a small island and city on the coast of Syria, mentioned as furnishing mariners and soldiers for Tyre. The inhabitants were called Arvadites. The name is written Aruada or Ara"}, {"id": "card_n_75af0c11301a", "title": "Easton: Chios", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned in Acts 20:15, an island in the Aegean Sea, about 5 miles distant from the mainland, having a roadstead, in the shelter of which Paul and his companions anchored for a night when on his thir"}, {"id": "card_n_9de284733d92", "title": "Easton: Rhodes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A rose, an island to the south of the western extremity of Asia Minor, between Coos and Patara, about 46 miles long and 18 miles broad. Here the apostle probably landed on his way from Greece to Syria"}, {"id": "card_n_1c18784a6523", "title": "Easton: Lycia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A wolf, a province in the south-west of Asia Minor, opposite the island of Rhodes. It forms part of the region now called Tekeh. It was a province of the Roman empire when visited by Paul (Acts 21:1; "}, {"id": "card_n_117253a01ff4", "title": "Easton: Samothracia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An island in the AEgean Sea, off the coast of Thracia, about 32 miles distant. This Thracian Samos was passed by Paul on his voyage from Troas to Neapolis (Acts 16:11) on his first missionary journey."}, {"id": "card_n_5fb8a74c966d", "title": "Easton: Coos", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(written Cos in the R.V.), a small island, one of the Sporades in the Aegean Sea, in the north-west of Rhodes, off the coast of Caria. Paul on his return from his third missionary journey, passed the "}, {"id": "card_n_ddb12bb03a8b", "title": "Easton: Assos", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A sea-port town of Proconsular Asia, in the district of Mysia, on the north shore of the Gulf of Adramyttium. Paul came hither on foot along the Roman road from Troas (Acts 20:13, 14), a distance of 2"}, {"id": "card_c_e054feaa1ea1", "title": "Easton: Island references Dan", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Dan (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_005c2bd21bae", "title": "Easton: Mitylene", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The chief city of the island of Lesbos, on its east coast, in the AEgean Sea. Paul, during his third missionary journey, touched at this place on his way from Corinth to Judea (Acts 20:14), and here t"}, {"id": "card_n_eb1ad1af049d", "title": "Easton: Dodanim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Leaders, a race descended from Javan (Gen. 10:4). They are known in profane history as the Dardani, originally inhabiting Illyricum. They were a semi-Pelasgic race, and in the ethnographical table (Ge"}, {"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_bbcf7a23b420", "title": "Easton: Camphire", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. copher), mentioned in Cant. 1:14 (R.V., “henna-flowers”); 4:13 (R.V., “henna”), is the al-henna of the Arabs, a native of Egypt, producing clusters of small white and yellow odoriferous flowers,"}]}