{"query": "Easton: Month", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_852257e9db4d", "title": "Easton: Month", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Among the Egyptians the month of thirty days each was in use long before the time of the Exodus, and formed the basis of their calculations. From the time of the institution of the Mosaic law the mont"}, {"id": "card_n_aabbe96cf183", "title": "Easton: Fast", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The sole fast required by the law of Moses was that of the great Day of Atonement (q.v.), Lev. 23:26-32. It is called “the fast” (Acts 27:9). The only other mention of a periodical fast in the Old Tes"}, {"id": "card_n_2b842a4e6efa", "title": "Easton: Trumpets, Feast of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was celebrated at the beginning of the month Tisri, the first month of the civil year. It received its name from the circumstances that the trumpets usually blown at the commencement of each month wer"}, {"id": "card_n_5c4ccf73a436", "title": "Easton: Year", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. shanah, meaning “repetition” or “revolution” (Gen. 1:14; 5:3). Among the ancient Egyptians the year consisted of twelve months of thirty days each, with five days added to make it a complete revo"}, {"id": "card_n_3f212c197f4d", "title": "Easton: Ethanim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The month of gifts, i.e., of vintage offerings; called Tisri after the Exile; corresponding to part of September and October. It was the first month of the civil year, and the seventh of the sacred ye"}, {"id": "card_n_0f7cba330ec1", "title": "Easton: Marcheshvan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The post-biblical name of the month which was the eighth of the sacred and the second of the civil year of the Jews. It began with the new moon of our November. It is once called Bul (1 Kings 6:38). A"}, {"id": "card_n_aac8e92a9281", "title": "Easton: Pur, Purim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A lot, lots, a festival instituted by the Jews (Esther 9:24-32) in ironical commemoration of Haman’s consultation of the Pur (a Persian word), for the purpose of ascertaining the auspicious day for ex"}, {"id": "card_n_d178a4db5064", "title": "Easton: Abib", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An ear of corn, the month of newly-ripened grain (Ex. 13:4; 23:15); the first of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, and the seventh of the civil year. It began about the time of the vernal equinox, on 21"}, {"id": "card_n_7f113d496e0f", "title": "Easton: Adar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Large, the sixth month of the civil and the twelfth of the ecclesiastical year of the Jews (Esther 3:7, 13; 8:12; 9:1, 15, 17, 19, 21). It included the days extending from the new moon of our March to"}, {"id": "card_n_6fa7482b5f4e", "title": "Easton: Tammuz", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A corruption of Dumuzi, the Accadian sun-god (the Adonis of the Greeks), the husband of the goddess Ishtar. In the Chaldean calendar there was a month set apart in honour of this god, the month of Jun"}, {"id": "card_c_3262178c696b", "title": "Easton: Month references Exodus", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Exodus. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_e342aa0e9e57", "title": "Easton: Month references Hebrews", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Hebrews. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_76b4eddb063f", "title": "Easton: Month cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 4:7 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_f456708a5c46", "title": "Easton: Perez", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Pharez, (q.v.), breach, the son of Judah (Neh. 11:4). “The chief of all the captains of the host for the first month” in the reign of David was taken from his family (1 Chr. 27:3). Four hundred and s"}, {"id": "card_c_9c51e7943dfc", "title": "Easton: Month references Palestine", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Palestine (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_n_db6466823b72", "title": "Easton: Atonement, Day of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The great annual day of humiliation and expiation for the sins of the nation, “the fast” (Acts 27:9), and the only one commanded in the law of Moses. The mode of its observance is described in Lev. 16"}, {"id": "card_n_77c98f1d85ab", "title": "Easton: Haggai, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consists of two brief, comprehensive chapters. The object of the prophet was generally to urge the people to proceed with the rebuilding of the temple. Chapter first comprehends the first address (2-1"}, {"id": "card_n_e2da6efaf1f0", "title": "Easton: Dedication, Feast of the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(John 10:22, 42), i.e., the feast of the renewing. It was instituted B.C. 164 to commemorate the purging of the temple after its pollution by Antiochus Epiphanes (B.C. 167), and the rebuilding of the "}, {"id": "card_n_bd8404b052c2", "title": "Easton: Nativity of Christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The birth of our Lord took place at the time and place predicted by the prophets (Gen. 49:10; Isa. 7:14; Jer. 31:15; Micah 5:2; Hag. 2:6-9; Dan. 9:24, 25). Joseph and Mary were providentially led to g"}, {"id": "card_n_df411a23656a", "title": "Easton: Moon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. yareah, from its paleness (Ezra 6:15), and lebanah, the “white” (Cant. 6:10; Isa. 24:23), was appointed by the Creator to be with the sun “for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years” (Ge"}]}