{"query": "Easton: Man", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f9fcf13f7c5d", "title": "Easton: Man", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. ‘Adam, used as the proper name of the first man. The name is derived from a word meaning “to be red,” and thus the first man was called Adam because he was formed from the red earth. It is a"}, {"id": "card_c_96960e0aa1de", "title": "Easton: Ransom references Son of man", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Son of man (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_3b46d79dcf77", "title": "Easton: Adam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Red, a Babylonian word, the generic name for man, having the same meaning in the Hebrew and the Assyrian languages. It was the name given to the first man, whose creation, fall, and subsequent history"}, {"id": "card_n_1db8b6b376c8", "title": "Easton: Man of sin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A designation of Antichrist given in 2 Thess. 2:3-10, usually regarded as descriptive of the Papal power; but “in whomsoever these distinctive features are found, whoever wields temporal and spiritual"}, {"id": "card_n_3afe1df2b476", "title": "Easton: Son of man", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Denotes mankind generally, with special reference to their weakness and frailty (Job 25:6; Ps. 8:4; 144:3; 146:3; Isa. 51:12, etc.). (2.) It is a title frequently given to the prophet Ezekiel, pr"}, {"id": "card_n_72c137732083", "title": "Easton: Alexander", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Man-defender. (1.) A relative of Annas the high priest, present when Peter and John were examined before the Sanhedrim (Acts 4:6). (2.) A man whose father, Simon the Cyrenian, bore the cross of Christ"}, {"id": "card_n_369e3407adc5", "title": "Easton: Woman", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was “taken out of man” (Gen. 2:23), and therefore the man has the preeminence. “The head of the woman is the man;” but yet honour is to be shown to the wife, “as unto the weaker vessel” (1 Cor. 11:3, "}, {"id": "card_n_81bd3c3606cb", "title": "Easton: Redemption", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The purchase back of something that had been lost, by the payment of a ransom. The Greek word so rendered is apolutrosis, a word occurring nine times in Scripture, and always with the idea of a ransom"}, {"id": "card_n_bbe0e699912a", "title": "Easton: Sacrifice", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The offering up of sacrifices is to be regarded as a divine institution. It did not originate with man. God himself appointed it as the mode in which acceptable worship was to be offered to him by gui"}, {"id": "card_n_655b58f18042", "title": "Easton: Mediator", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who intervenes between two persons who are at variance, with a view to reconcile them. This word is not found in the Old Testament; but the idea it expresses is found in Job 9:33, in the word “day"}, {"id": "card_n_28fbf21abcaa", "title": "Easton: Ecclesiastes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Greek rendering of the Hebrew Koheleth, which means “Preacher.” The old and traditional view of the authorship of this book attributes it to Solomon. This view can be satisfactorily maintained, th"}, {"id": "card_n_da4b14b78cbe", "title": "Easton: Husband", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I.e., the “house-band,” connecting and keeping together the whole family. A man when betrothed was esteemed from that time a husband (Matt. 1:16, 20; Luke 2:5). A recently married man was exempt from "}, {"id": "card_n_f3eb133cd3be", "title": "Easton: Methuselah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Man of the dart, the son of Enoch, and grandfather of Noah. He was the oldest man of whom we have any record, dying at the age of nine hundred and sixty-nine years, in the year of the Flood (Gen. 5:21"}, {"id": "card_n_a054644ddefc", "title": "Easton: Champion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 Sam. 17:4, 23), properly “the man between the two,” denoting the position of Goliath between the two camps. Single combats of this kind at the head of armies were common in ancient times. In ver. 5"}, {"id": "card_n_eda5117447df", "title": "Easton: First-born, Sanctification of the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A peculiar sanctity was attached to the first-born both of man and of cattle. God claimed that the first-born males of man and of animals should be consecrated to him, the one as a priest (Ex. 19:22, "}, {"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_10ddbb145fb2", "title": "Easton: Incarnation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "That act of grace whereby Christ took our human nature into union with his Divine Person, became man. Christ is both God and man. Human attributes and actions are predicated of him, and he of whom the"}, {"id": "card_n_60e65c6dfbc0", "title": "Easton: Spirit", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ruah; Gr. pneuma), properly wind or breath. In 2 Thess. 2:8 it means “breath,” and in Eccl. 8:8 the vital principle in man. It also denotes the rational, immortal soul by which man is distinguis"}, {"id": "card_n_57a864679797", "title": "Easton: Heath", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ‘arar, (Jer. 17:6; 48:6), a species of juniper called by the Arabs by the same name (‘arar), the Juniperus sabina or savin. “Its gloomy, stunted appearance, with its scale-like leaves pressed clo"}, {"id": "card_n_732fe14a8a42", "title": "Easton: Carnal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Unconverted men are so called (1 Cor. 3:3). They are represented as of a “carnal mind, which is enmity against God” (Rom. 8:6, 7). Enjoyments that minister to the wants and desires of man’s animal nat"}]}