{"query": "Easton: Lord", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_9e88feeb505a", "title": "Easton: Temple", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First used of the tabernacle, which is called “the temple of the Lord” (1 Sam. 1:9). In the New Testament the word is used figuratively of Christ’s human body (John 2:19, 21). Believers are called “th"}, {"id": "card_n_6cc7691634e0", "title": "Easton: Lord’s Prayer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to the only form of prayer Christ taught his disciples (Matt. 6:9-13). The closing doxology of the prayer is omitted by Luke (11:2-4), also in the R.V. of Matt. 6:13. This prayer contai"}, {"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 "}, {"id": "card_n_b0fbbec3a8f1", "title": "Easton: Lord’s day", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Only once, in Rev. 1:10, was in the early Christian ages used to denote the first day of the week, which commemorated the Lord’s resurrection. There is every reason to conclude that John thus used the"}, {"id": "card_n_98d90634948d", "title": "Easton: Enos", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Man the son of Seth, and grandson of Adam (Gen. 5:6-11; Luke 3:38). He lived nine hundred and five years. In his time “men began to call upon the name of the Lord” (Gen. 4:26), meaning either (1) then"}, {"id": "card_n_9204e18a473a", "title": "Easton: Simon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The abbreviated form of Simeon. (1.) One of the twelve apostles, called the Canaanite (Matt. 10:4; Mark 3:18). This word “Canaanite” does not mean a native of Canaan, but is derived from the Syriac wo"}, {"id": "card_n_3518360ca86c", "title": "Easton: James", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The son of Zebedee and Salome; an elder brother of John the apostle. He was one of the twelve. He was by trade a fisherman, in partnership with Peter (Matt. 20:20; 27:56). With John and Peter he "}, {"id": "card_n_7e307f4486f2", "title": "Easton: Lord’s Supper", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 Cor. 11:20), called also “the Lord’s table” (10:21), “communion,” “cup of blessing” (10:16), and “breaking of bread” (Acts 2:42). In the early Church it was called also “eucharist,” or giving of th"}, {"id": "card_n_72340f3ca042", "title": "Easton: Obadiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Servant of the Lord. (1.) An Israelite who was chief in the household of King Ahab (1 Kings 18:3). Amid great spiritual degeneracy he maintained his fidelity to God, and interposed to protect The Lord"}, {"id": "card_n_5a4b51460cae", "title": "Easton: Andrew", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Manliness, a Greek name; one of the apostles of our Lord. He was of Bethsaida in Galilee (John 1:44), and was the brother of Simon Peter (Matt. 4:18; 10:2). On one occasion John the Baptist, whose dis"}, {"id": "card_n_2b25f6e96b6d", "title": "Easton: Capernaum", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Nahum’s town, a Galilean city frequently mentioned in the history of our Lord. It is not mentioned in the Old Testament. After our Lord’s expulsion from Nazareth (Matt. 4:13-16; Luke 4:16-31), Caperna"}, {"id": "card_n_be06128aa496", "title": "Easton: Jehovah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The special and significant name (not merely an appellative title such as Lord [adonai]) by which God revealed himself to the ancient Hebrews (Ex. 6:2, 3). This name, the Tetragrammaton of the Greeks,"}, {"id": "card_n_d7f0ac8ec14a", "title": "Easton: Samuel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heard of God. The peculiar circumstances connected with his birth are recorded in 1 Sam. 1:20. Hannah, one of the two wives of Elkanah, who came up to Shiloh to worship before the Lord, earnestly pray"}, {"id": "card_n_a8a6fa6aeda3", "title": "Easton: Maranatha", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 Cor. 16:22) consists of two Aramean words, Maran’athah, meaning, “our Lord comes,” or is “coming.” If the latter interpretation is adopted, the meaning of the phrase is, “Our Lord is coming, and he"}, {"id": "card_n_2b422618bd08", "title": "Easton: Beelzebub", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. form Beel’zebul), the name given to Satan, and found only in the New Testament (Matt. 10:25; 12:24, 27; Mark 3:22). It is probably the same as Baalzebub (q.v.), the god of Ekron, meaning “the lor"}, {"id": "card_n_8a005e56ed13", "title": "Easton: Pekahiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Lord opened his eyes, the son and successor of Menahem on the throne of Israel. He was murdered in the royal palace of Samaria by Pekah, one of the captains of his army (2 Kings 15:23-26), after a"}, {"id": "card_n_b5974b5050f2", "title": "Easton: Malchus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Reigning, the personal servant or slave of the high priest Caiaphas. He is mentioned only by John. Peter cut off his right ear in the garden of Gethsemane (John 18:10). But our Lord cured it with a to"}, {"id": "card_n_0e14904f7a3d", "title": "Easton: Nathanael", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Given or gift of God, one of our Lord’s disciples, “of Cana in Galilee” (John 21:2). He was “an Israelite indeed, in whom was no guile” (1:47, 48). His name occurs only in the Gospel of John, who in h"}, {"id": "card_n_5c2b839abe19", "title": "Easton: Consecration", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The devoting or setting apart of anything to the worship or service of God. The race of Abraham and the tribe of Levi were thus consecrated (Ex. 13:2, 12, 15; Num. 3:12). The Hebrews devoted their fie"}]}