{"query": "Easton: Paradise", "count": 12, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f549b7951bef", "title": "Easton: Paradise", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Persian word (pardes), properly meaning a “pleasure-ground” or “park” or “king’s garden.” (See EDEN.) It came in course of time to be used as a name for the world of happiness and rest hereafter (Lu"}, {"id": "card_c_507dfc4528b5", "title": "Easton: Paradise cites Luke", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Luke 23:43 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_0877c288ee71", "title": "Easton: Abraham’s bosom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Luke 16:22, 23) refers to the custom of reclining on couches at table, which was prevalent among the Jews, an arrangement which brought the head of one person almost into the bosom of the one who sat"}, {"id": "card_n_9eaec0a2a5d0", "title": "Easton: Hiddekel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called by the Accadians id Idikla; i.e., “the river of Idikla”, the third of the four rivers of Paradise (Gen. 2:14). Gesenius interprets the word as meaning “the rapid Tigris.” The Tigris rises in th"}, {"id": "card_n_37bb7663ba5c", "title": "Easton: Gennesaret", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A garden of riches. (1.) A town of Naphtali, called Chinnereth (Josh. 19:35), sometimes in the plural form Chinneroth (11:2). In later times the name was gradually changed to Genezar and Gennesaret (L"}, {"id": "card_n_759f8b59f423", "title": "Easton: Tree of life", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Stood also in the midst of the garden of Eden (Gen. 2:9; 3:22). Some writers have advanced the opinion that this tree had some secret virtue, which was fitted to preserve life. Probably the lesson con"}, {"id": "card_n_5394dc7fa434", "title": "Easton: Gardens", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned in Scripture, of Eden (Gen. 2:8, 9); Ahab’s garden of herbs (1 Kings 21:2); the royal garden (2 Kings 21:18); the royal garden at Susa (Esther 1:5); the garden of Joseph of Arimathea (John 1"}, {"id": "card_n_19e9af3fa46d", "title": "Easton: Wife", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The ordinance of marriage was sanctioned in Paradise (Gen. 2:24; Matt. 19:4-6). Monogamy was the original law under which man lived, but polygamy early commenced (Gen. 4:19), and continued to prevail "}, {"id": "card_n_60745de1050f", "title": "Easton: Euphrates", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hebrew, Perath; Assyrian, Purat; Persian cuneiform, Ufratush, whence Greek Euphrates, meaning “sweet water.” The Assyrian name means “the stream,” or “the great stream.” It is generally called in the "}, {"id": "card_n_cd52e85ccf7b", "title": "Easton: Marriage", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was instituted in Paradise when man was in innocence (Gen. 2:18-24). Here we have its original charter, which was confirmed by our Lord, as the basis on which all regulations are to be framed (Matt. 1"}, {"id": "card_n_bf566768d509", "title": "Easton: Sabbath", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. verb shabbath, meaning “to rest from labour”), the day of rest. It is first mentioned as having been instituted in Paradise, when man was in innocence (Gen. 2:2). “The sabbath was made for man,”"}, {"id": "card_n_211a08342363", "title": "Easton: Cush", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Black. (1.) A son, probably the eldest, of Ham, and the father of Nimrod (Gen. 10:8; 1 Chr. 1:10). From him the land of Cush seems to have derived its name. The question of the precise locality of the"}]}