{"query": "Easton: Moses", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_7139724c819a", "title": "Easton: Jethro", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "His excellence, or gain, a prince or priest of Midian, who succeeded his father Reuel. Moses spent forty years after his exile from the Egyptian court as keeper of Jethro’s flocks. While the Israelite"}, {"id": "card_n_975638af6bad", "title": "Easton: Eldad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whom God has loved, one of the seventy elders whom Moses appointed (Num. 11:26, 27) to administer justice among the people. He, with Medad, prophesied in the camp instead of going with the rest to the"}, {"id": "card_n_ad1dbee04142", "title": "Easton: Hazeroth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fenced enclosures consisting of “a low wall of stones in which thick bundles of thorny acacia are inserted, the tangled branches and long needle-like spikes forming a perfectly impenetrable hedge arou"}, {"id": "card_n_146eb6567951", "title": "Easton: Elder", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A name frequently used in the Old Testament as denoting a person clothed with authority, and entitled to respect and reverence (Gen. 50:7). It also denoted a political office (Num. 22:7). The “elders "}, {"id": "card_n_2234dfddf44e", "title": "Easton: Aaron", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The eldest son of Amram and Jochebed, a daughter of Levi (Ex. 6:20). Some explain the name as meaning mountaineer, others mountain of strength, illuminator. He was born in Egypt three years before his"}, {"id": "card_n_574a6200876d", "title": "Easton: Joshua", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah is his help, or Jehovah the Saviour. The son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, the successor of Moses as the leader of Israel. He is called Jehoshua in Num. 13:16 (A.V.), and Jesus in Acts 7:45"}, {"id": "card_n_7155173f6be8", "title": "Easton: Zipporah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A female bird. Reuel’s daughter, who became the wife of Moses (Ex. 2:21). In consequence of the event recorded in Ex. 4:24-26, she and her two sons, Gershom and Eliezer, when so far on the way with Mo"}, {"id": "card_n_7fd809c41510", "title": "Easton: Law of Moses", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is the whole body of the Mosaic legislation (1 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 23:25; Ezra 3:2). It is called by way of eminence simply “the Law” (Heb. Torah, Deut. 1:5; 4:8, 44; 17:18, 19; 27:3, 8). As a written "}, {"id": "card_n_875ac72b0eb6", "title": "Easton: Gershom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Expulsion. (1.) The eldest son of Levi (1 Chr. 6:16, 17, 20, 43, 62, 71; 15:7)=GERSHON (q.v.). (2.) The elder of the two sons of Moses born to him in Midian (Ex. 2:22; 18:3). On his way to Egypt with "}, {"id": "card_n_524670df6a3e", "title": "Easton: Eliezer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God his help. (1.) “Of Damascus,” the “steward” (R.V., “possessor”) of Abraham’s house (Gen. 15:2, 3). It was probably he who headed the embassy sent by Abraham to the old home of his family in Padan-"}, {"id": "card_n_13725052742c", "title": "Easton: Veil, vail", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. mitpahath (Ruth 3:15; marg., “sheet” or “apron;” R.V., “mantle”). In Isa. 3:22 this word is plural, rendered “wimples;” R.V., “shawls” i.e., wraps. (2.) Massekah (Isa. 25:7; in Isa. 28:20 re"}, {"id": "card_n_82a475cb6a91", "title": "Easton: Korah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ice, hail. (1.) The third son of Esau, by Aholibamah (Gen. 36:14; 1 Chr. 1:35). (2.) A Levite, the son of Izhar, the brother of Amram, the father of Moses and Aaron (Ex. 6:21). The institution of the "}, {"id": "card_n_b5ad3d476485", "title": "Easton: Writing", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The art of writing must have been known in the time of the early Pharaohs. Moses is commanded “to write for a memorial in a book” (Ex. 17:14) a record of the attack of Amalek. Frequent mention is afte"}, {"id": "card_n_9f70a75c8771", "title": "Easton: Moses", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Drawn (or Egypt. mesu, “son;” hence Rameses, royal son). On the invitation of Pharaoh (Gen. 45:17-25), Jacob and his sons went down into Egypt. This immigration took place probably about 350 years bef"}, {"id": "card_n_8d4a34825837", "title": "Easton: Pentateuch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The five-fold volume, consisting of the first five books of the Old Testament. This word does not occur in Scripture, nor is it certainly known when the roll was thus divided into five portions Genesi"}, {"id": "card_n_169ab095061e", "title": "Easton: Kibroth-hattaavah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The graves of the longing or of lust, one of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness. It was probably in the Wady Murrah, and has been identified with the Erweis el-Ebeirig, where the remains"}, {"id": "card_n_7b5e46967768", "title": "Easton: Golden calf", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ex. 32:4, 8; Deut. 9:16; Neh. 9:18). This was a molten image of a calf which the idolatrous Israelites formed at Sinai. This symbol was borrowed from the custom of the Egyptians. It was destroyed at "}, {"id": "card_n_34022799d569", "title": "Easton: Hur", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A hole, as of a viper, etc. (1.) A son of Caleb (1 Chr. 2:19, 50; 4:1, 4; comp. 2 Chr. 1:5). (2.) The husband of Miriam, Moses’ sister (Ex. 17:10-12). He was associated with Aaron in charge of the peo"}, {"id": "card_n_d565fd946a54", "title": "Easton: Miriam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Their rebellion. (1.) The sister of Moses and Aaron (Ex. 2:4-10; 1 Chr. 6:3). Her name is prominent in the history of the Exodus. She is called “the prophetess” (Ex. 15:20). She took the lead in the s"}, {"id": "card_n_d527b91db34d", "title": "Easton: Zelophehad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First-born, of the tribe of Manasseh, and of the family of Gilead; died in the wilderness. Having left no sons, his daughters, concerned lest their father’s name should be “done away from among his fa"}]}