{"query": "Easton: Pentecost", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_48b778dd5047", "title": "Easton: Tongues, Gift of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Granted on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:4), in fulfilment of a promise Christ had made to his disciples (Mark 16:17). What this gift actually was has been a subject of much discussion. Some have argue"}, {"id": "card_n_39fb74a3b5b2", "title": "Easton: Pentecost", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I.e., “fiftieth”, found only in the New Testament (Acts 2:1; 20:16; 1 Cor. 16:8). The festival so named is first spoken of in Ex. 23:16 as “the feast of harvest,” and again in Ex. 34:22 as “the day of"}, {"id": "card_n_12f0fa95e7f5", "title": "Easton: Ephesus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The capital of proconsular Asia, which was the western part of Asia Minor. It was colonized principally from Athens. In the time of the Romans it bore the title of “the first and greatest metropolis o"}, {"id": "card_c_5a0cd176835c", "title": "Easton: Pentecost cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 2:1 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_2ef422fd8d78", "title": "Easton: Parthians", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Were present in Jerusalem at Pentecost (Acts 2:9). Parthia lay on the east of Media and south of Hyrcania, which separated it from the Caspian Sea. It corresponded with the western half of the modern "}, {"id": "card_n_d769cdf5aa56", "title": "Easton: Pamphylia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Paul and his company, loosing from Paphos, sailed north-west and came to Perga, the capital of Pamphylia (Acts 13:13, 14), a province about the middle of the southern sea-board of Asia Minor. It lay b"}, {"id": "card_c_ff74cbe9f8f1", "title": "Easton: Pentecost references Jerusalem", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jerusalem (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_c_25274ac4d6c3", "title": "Easton: Pentecost references Peter", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Peter (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_n_716e70d8f1c7", "title": "Easton: Wave offerings", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Parts of peace-offerings were so called, because they were waved by the priests (Ex. 29:24, 26, 27; Lev. 7:20-34; 8:27; 9:21; 10:14, 15, etc.), in token of a solemn special presentation to God. They t"}, {"id": "card_n_615dd6cca916", "title": "Easton: Convocation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A meeting of a religious character as distinguished from congregation, which was more general, dealing with political and legal matters. Hence it is called an “holy convocation.” Such convocations wer"}, {"id": "card_n_c3ef2e5f26d0", "title": "Easton: Pontus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A province of Asia Minor, stretching along the southern coast of the Euxine Sea, corresponding nearly to the modern province of Trebizond. In the time of the apostles it was a Roman province. Stranger"}, {"id": "card_n_e38dc005366a", "title": "Easton: Harvest", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The season for gathering grain or fruit. On the 16th day of Abib (or April) a handful of ripe ears of corn was offered as a first-fruit before the Lord, and immediately after this the harvest commence"}, {"id": "card_n_80acf3dd2e2b", "title": "Easton: Gifts, spiritual", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. charismata), gifts supernaturally bestowed on the early Christians, each having his own proper gift or gifts for the edification of the body of Christ. These were the result of the extraordinary "}, {"id": "card_n_2cd22a6c554f", "title": "Easton: Crete", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Now called Candia, one of the largest islands in the Meditterranean, about 140 miles long and 35 broad. It was at one time a very prosperous and populous island, having a “hundred cities.” The charact"}, {"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_faea09fdb08c", "title": "Easton: Cyrene", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A city (now Tripoli) in Upper Libya, North Africa, founded by a colony of Greeks (B.C. 630). It contained latterly a large number of Jews, who were introduced into the city by Ptolemy, the son of Lagu"}, {"id": "card_n_a13975ce6129", "title": "Easton: Festivals, Religious", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There were daily (Lev. 23), weekly, monthly, and yearly festivals, and great stress was laid on the regular observance of them in every particular (Num. 28:1-8; Ex. 29:38-42; Lev. 6:8-23; Ex. 30:7-9; "}, {"id": "card_n_60a78689f6ad", "title": "Easton: Agriculture", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Tilling the ground (Gen. 2:15; 4:2, 3, 12) and rearing cattle were the chief employments in ancient times. The Egyptians excelled in agriculture. And after the Israelites entered into the possession o"}, {"id": "card_n_972ee38e2278", "title": "Easton: Hallel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Praise, the name given to the group of Psalms 113-118, which are preeminently psalms of praise. It is called “The Egyptian Hallel,” because it was chanted in the temple whilst the Passover lambs were "}, {"id": "card_n_37fd58b5ed80", "title": "Easton: Burnt offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hebrew olah; i.e., “ascending,” the whole being consumed by fire, and regarded as ascending to God while being consumed. Part of every offering was burnt in the sacred fire, but this was wholly burnt,"}]}