{"query": "Easton: Moon", "count": 20, "results": [{"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"}, {"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_32dcaffe8fdf", "title": "Easton: Arioch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lion-like, venerable. (1.) A king of Ellasar who was confederate with Chedorlamer (Gen. 14:1, 9). The tablets recently discovered by Mr. Pinches (see CHALDEA) show the true reading is Eri-Aku of Larsa"}, {"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_da00b9e26bdc", "title": "Easton: Eclipse", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of the sun alluded to in Amos 8:9; Micah 3:6; Zech. 14:6; Joel 2:10. Eclipses were regarded as tokens of God’s anger (Joel 3:15; Job 9:7). The darkness at the crucifixion has been ascribed to an eclip"}, {"id": "card_c_a44bcbc11535", "title": "Easton: Moon cites Ezra", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Ezra 6:15 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_71f08f7340ae", "title": "Easton: Moon cites Job", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Job 31:26 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_67a4d6dcd0e6", "title": "Easton: Moon cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 23:5 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_31ac5dc386b7", "title": "Easton: Anammelech", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the gods worshipped by the people of Sepharvaim, who colonized Samaria (2 Kings 17:31). The name means “Anu is king.” It was a female deity representing the moon, as Adrammelech (q.v.) was the "}, {"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_1e0b22bc109e", "title": "Easton: Lunatic", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Probably the same as epileptic, the symptoms of which disease were supposed to be more aggravated as the moon increased. In Matt. 4:24 “lunatics” are distinguished from demoniacs. In 17:15 the name “l"}, {"id": "card_n_221179378064", "title": "Easton: Ashteroth Karnaim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ashteroth of the two horns, the abode of the Rephaim (Gen. 14:5). It may be identified with Ashtaroth preceding; called “Karnaim”, i.e., the “two-horned” (the crescent moon). The Samaritan version ren"}, {"id": "card_n_6d710ee06565", "title": "Easton: Tires", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“To tire” the head is to adorn it (2 Kings 9:30). As a noun the word is derived from “tiara,” and is the rendering of the Heb. p’er, a “turban” or an ornament for the head (Ezek. 24:17; R.V., “headtir"}, {"id": "card_n_e09878be59a1", "title": "Easton: Sun", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. shemesh), first mentioned along with the moon as the two great luminaries of heaven (Gen. 1:14-18). By their motions and influence they were intended to mark and divide times and seasons. The wo"}, {"id": "card_n_5333331bac11", "title": "Psalm 72 — Psalm 72", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<By Solomon.>> God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son. He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice. The mountains shall bring prosperity to "}, {"id": "card_n_27a44f7fd75d", "title": "Psalm 81 — Psalm 81", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph.>> Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob! Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre"}, {"id": "card_n_ef531b679a49", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_029: I heard once from a learned man, that the motions of the sun, moon, and stars...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I heard once from a learned man, that the motions of the sun, moon, and stars, constituted time, and I assented not. For why should not the motions of all bodies rather be times? Or, if the lights of "}, {"id": "card_n_117d9c5e5ba9", "title": "Easton: Torches", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On the night of his betrayal, when our Lord was in the garden of Gethsemane, Judas, “having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and t"}, {"id": "card_n_883cea35cd9a", "title": "Easton: Lamb", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. kebes, a male lamb from the first to the third year. Offered daily at the morning and the evening sacrifice (Ex. 29:38-42), on the Sabbath day (Num. 28:9), at the feast of the New Moon (28:1"}, {"id": "card_n_1e6acbf52c16", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_024: But you, chosen generation, you weak things of the world, who have forsaken a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But you, chosen generation, you weak things of the world, who have forsaken all, that ye may follow the Lord; go after Him, and confound the mighty; go after Him, ye beautiful feet, and shine ye in th"}]}