{"query": "Easton: Main-sail", "count": 15, "results": [{"id": "card_n_3dfbd9b370d1", "title": "Easton: Main-sail", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. artemon), answering to the modern “mizzen-sail,” as some suppose. Others understand the “jib,” near the prow, or the “fore-sail,” as likely to be most useful in bringing a ship’s head to the wind"}, {"id": "card_c_853154a5552a", "title": "Easton: Main-sail cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 27:40 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_d266af621677", "title": "Easton: Patara", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A city on the south-west coast of Lycia at which Paul landed on his return from his third missionary journey (Acts 21:1, 2). Here he found a larger vessel, which was about to sail across the open sea "}, {"id": "card_n_cb67148a627c", "title": "Easton: Adramyttium", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A city of Asia Minor on the coast of Mysia, which in early times was called AEolis. The ship in which Paul embarked at Caesarea belonged to this city (Acts 27:2). He was conveyed in it only to Myra, i"}, {"id": "card_n_fe3173c11f72", "title": "Easton: Ships", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Early used in foreign commerce by the Phoenicians (Gen. 49:13). Moses (Deut. 28:68) and Job (9:26) make reference to them, and Balaam speaks of the “ships of Chittim” (Num. 24:24). Solomon constructed"}, {"id": "card_n_e5aea150facb", "title": "Easton: Zareth-shahar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The splendour of the dawn, a city “in the mount of the valley” (Josh. 13:19). It is identified with the ruins of Zara, near the mouth of the Wady Zerka Main, on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea, some"}, {"id": "card_n_9a7e8f93dacb", "title": "Easton: Thunder", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Often referred to in Scripture (Job 40:9; Ps. 77:18; 104:7). James and John were called by our Lord “sons of thunder” (Mark 3:17). In Job 39:19, instead of “thunder,” as in the Authorized Version, the"}, {"id": "card_n_5d8fdf250248", "title": "Easton: Tarshish", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Sanscrit or Aryan word, meaning “the sea coast.” (1.) One of the “sons” of Javan (Gen. 10:4; 1 Chr. 1:7). (2.) The name of a place which first comes into notice in the days of Solomon. The question "}, {"id": "card_n_e0182ba43379", "title": "Easton: Isaiah, The Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consists of prophecies delivered (Isa. 1) in the reign of Uzziah (1-5), (2) of Jotham (6), (3) Ahaz (7-14:28), (4) the first half of Hezekiah’s reign (14:28-35), (5) the second half of Hezekiah’s reig"}, {"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_6c2298239cc6", "title": "Easton: South", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. Negeb, that arid district to the south of Palestine through which lay the caravan route from Central Palestine to Egypt (Gen. 12:9; 13:1, 3; 46:1-6). “The Negeb comprised a considerable but irreg"}, {"id": "card_n_4a14f154615a", "title": "Easton: Sheba", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An oath, seven. (1.) Heb. shebha, the son of Raamah (Gen. 10:7), whose descendants settled with those of Dedan on the Persian Gulf. (2.) Heb. id. A son of Joktan (Gen. 10:28), probably the founder of "}, {"id": "card_n_92d23ae82bf7", "title": "Easton: Rechabites", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The descendants of Rechab through Jonadab or Jehonadab. They belonged to the Kenites, who accompanied the children of Israel into Palestine, and dwelt among them. Moses married a Kenite wife (Judg. 1:"}, {"id": "card_n_3526c472f558", "title": "Easton: Temple, Herod’s", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The temple erected by the exiles on their return from Babylon had stood for about five hundred years, when Herod the Great became king of Judea. The building had suffered considerably from natural dec"}, {"id": "card_n_3712fb9d672a", "title": "Easton: Nabal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Foolish, a descendant of Caleb who dwelt at Maon (1 Sam. 25), the modern Main, 7 miles south-east of Hebron. He was “very great, and he had 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats...but the man was churlish and e"}]}