{"query": "Easton: Journey", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_822b5a119a23", "title": "Easton: Day’s journey", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The usual length of a day’s journey in the East, on camel or horseback, in six or eight hours, is about 25 or 30 miles. The “three days’ journey” mentioned in Ex. 3:18 is simply a journey which would "}, {"id": "card_n_f1a22c93a685", "title": "Easton: Journey", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A day’s journey in the East is from 16 to 20 miles (Num. 11:31). (2.) A Sabbath-day’s journey is 2,000 paces or yards from the city walls (Acts 1:12). According to Jewish tradition, it was the di"}, {"id": "card_n_a6a0538972a2", "title": "Easton: Derbe", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A small town on the eastern part of the upland plain of Lycaonia, about 20 miles from Lystra. Paul passed through Derbe on his route from Cilicia to Iconium, on his second missionary journey (Acts 16:"}, {"id": "card_n_35486821fc86", "title": "Easton: Sabbath day’s journey", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Supposed to be a distance of 2,000 cubits, or less than half-a-mile, the distance to which, according to Jewish tradition, it was allowable to travel on the Sabbath day without violating the law (Acts"}, {"id": "card_n_633f04a6c597", "title": "Easton: Illyricum", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A country to the north-west of Macedonia, on the eastern shores of the Adriatic, now almost wholly comprehended in Dalmatia, a name formerly given to the southern part of Illyricum (2 Tim. 4:10). It w"}, {"id": "card_n_e8640c97dfb9", "title": "Easton: Iconium", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The capital of ancient Lycaonia. It was first visited by Paul and Barnabas from Antioch-in-Pisidia during the apostle’s first missionary journey (Acts 13:50, 51). Here they were persecuted by the Jews"}, {"id": "card_n_e966d7784658", "title": "Easton: Macedonia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In New Testament times, was a Roman province lying north of Greece. It was governed by a propraetor with the title of proconsul. Paul was summoned by the vision of the “man of Macedonia” to preach the"}, {"id": "card_n_f419a8e795cf", "title": "Easton: Luke", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The evangelist, was a Gentile. The date and circumstances of his conversion are unknown. According to his own statement (Luke 1:2), he was not an “eye-witness and minister of the word from the beginni"}, {"id": "card_n_554cd3b48cc5", "title": "Easton: Juniper", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. rothem), called by the Arabs retem, and known as Spanish broom; ranked under the genus genista. It is a desert shrub, and abounds in many parts of Palestine. In the account of his journey from A"}, {"id": "card_n_169ab095061e", "title": "Easton: Kibroth-hattaavah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The graves of the longing or of lust, one of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness. It was probably in the Wady Murrah, and has been identified with the Erweis el-Ebeirig, where the remains"}, {"id": "card_c_d1ba414b48b8", "title": "Easton: Journey cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 1:12 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_789f457605db", "title": "Easton: Sabbath day’s journey cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 1:12 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"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_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_4fa1817334c5", "title": "Easton: Salamis", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A city on the south-east coast of Cyprus (Acts 13:5), where Saul and Barnabas, on their first missionary journey, preached the word in one of the Jewish synagogues, of which there seem to have been se"}, {"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_dab09e5d9edb", "title": "Easton: Euodias", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A good journey, a female member of the church at Philippi. She was one who laboured much with Paul in the gospel. He exhorts her to be of one mind with Syntyche (Phil. 4:2). From this it seems they ha"}, {"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_63ec05304416", "title": "Easton: Beth-phage", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "House of the unripe fig, a village on the Mount of Olives, on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho (Matt. 21:1; Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29), and very close to Bethany. It was the limit of a Sabbath-day’s jou"}]}