{"query": "Easton: Oath", "count": 15, "results": [{"id": "card_n_60dc80d6f932", "title": "Easton: Oath", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A solemn appeal to God, permitted on fitting occasions (Deut. 6:13; Jer. 4:2), in various forms (Gen. 16:5; 2 Sam. 12:5; Ruth 1:17; Hos. 4:15; Rom. 1:9), and taken in different ways (Gen. 14:22; 24:2;"}, {"id": "card_c_68b8ffd802cd", "title": "Easton: Oath references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_98906fb5e001", "title": "Easton: Oath cites Ruth", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Ruth 1:17 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_c79b0a3416cf", "title": "Easton: Elisabeth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God her oath, the mother of John the Baptist (Luke 1:5). She was a descendant of Aaron. She and her husband Zacharias (q.v.) “were both righteous before God” (Luke 1:5, 13). Mary’s visit to Elisabeth "}, {"id": "card_n_c5dfe91c133f", "title": "Easton: Phicol", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Great, the chief captain of the army of Abimelech, the Philistine king of Gerar. He entered into an alliance with Abraham with reference to a certain well which, from this circumstance, was called Bee"}, {"id": "card_c_325c4f71ca65", "title": "Easton: Oath references Paul", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Paul (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_2dced3217f09", "title": "Easton: Bath-sheba", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Daughter of the oath, or of seven, called also Bath-shu’a (1 Chr. 3:5), was the daughter of Eliam (2 Sam. 11:3) or Ammiel (1 Chr. 3:5), and wife of Uriah the Hittite. David committed adultery with her"}, {"id": "card_n_f658e3e5bc23", "title": "Easton: Adjuration", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A solemn appeal whereby one person imposes on another the obligation of speaking or acting as if under an oath (1 Sam. 14:24; Josh. 6:26; 1 Kings 22:16). We have in the New Testament a striking exampl"}, {"id": "card_n_700a3130c275", "title": "Easton: Amen", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This Hebrew word means firm, and hence also faithful (Rev. 3:14). In Isa. 65:16, the Authorized Version has “the God of truth,” which in Hebrew is “the God of Amen.” It is frequently used by our Savio"}, {"id": "card_n_7f07a0785478", "title": "Easton: Hand", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called by Galen “the instrument of instruments.” It is the symbol of human action (Ps. 9:16; Job 9:30; Isa. 1:15; 1 Tim. 2:8). Washing the hands was a symbol of innocence (Ps. 26:6; 73:13; Matt. 27:24"}, {"id": "card_n_46469e8f5962", "title": "Easton: Gibeon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hill-city, “one of the royal cities, greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty” (Josh. 10:2). Its inhabitants were Hivites (11:19). It lay within the territory of Benjamin, and became a pri"}, {"id": "card_n_69941284339e", "title": "Easton: Beersheba", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Well of the oath, or well of seven, a well dug by Abraham, and so named because he and Abimelech here entered into a compact (Gen. 21:31). On re-opening it, Isaac gave it the same name (Gen. 26:31-33)"}, {"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_35d7bd1c815e", "title": "Easton: Melchizedek", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "King of righteousness, the king of Salem (q.v.). All we know of him is recorded in Gen. 14:18-20. He is subsequently mentioned only once in the Old Testament, in Ps. 110:4. The typical significance of"}, {"id": "card_n_9b7efb5d3aa6", "title": "Easton: Burial", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The first burial we have an account of is that of Sarah (Gen. 23). The first commercial transaction recorded is that of the purchase of a burial-place, for which Abraham weighed to Ephron “four hundre"}]}