{"query": "Easton: Persia", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_3121e5a544cb", "title": "Easton: Persia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An ancient empire, extending from the Indus to Thrace, and from the Caspian Sea to the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. The Persians were originally a Medic tribe which settled in Persia, on the eastern "}, {"id": "card_n_cb74eecb6f37", "title": "Easton: Cyrus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. Ko’resh), the celebrated “King of Persia” (Elam) who was conqueror of Babylon, and issued the decree of liberation to the Jews (Ezra 1:1, 2). He was the son of Cambyses, the prince of Persia, an"}, {"id": "card_n_8bde6e74f4ef", "title": "Easton: Pethahiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Loosed of the Lord. (1.) The chief of one of the priestly courses (the nineteenth) in the time of David (1 Chr. 24:16). (2.) A Levite (Ezra 10:23). (3.) Neh. 9:5. (4.) A descendant of Judah who had so"}, {"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_250b46e425dd", "title": "Easton: Wise men", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned in Dan. 2:12 included three classes, (1) astrologers, (2) Chaldeans, and (3) soothsayers. The word in the original (hakamim) probably means “medicine men. In Chaldea medicine was only a bran"}, {"id": "card_c_471d5d5c8760", "title": "Easton: Persia references Darius", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Darius (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_c_142ef89e7045", "title": "Easton: Persia references East", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions East (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_1508d740ea41", "title": "Easton: Persia references Egypt", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Egypt (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_8fcc06040ceb", "title": "Easton: Persia references Elam", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Elam (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_c_a0b3534c2da1", "title": "Easton: Persia references India", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions India (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_aebc75fa7cfa", "title": "Easton: Persia references Lydia", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Lydia (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_3d3a69056bb1", "title": "Easton: Cup-bearer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An officer of high rank with Egyptian, Persian, Assyrian, and Jewish monarchs. The cup-bearer of the king of Egypt is mentioned in connection with Joseph’s history (Gen. 40:1-21; 41:9). Rabshakeh (q.v"}, {"id": "card_c_adc004cda964", "title": "Easton: Persia references Red Sea", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Red Sea (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_1f0a211c571e", "title": "Easton: Haman", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(of Persian origin), magnificent, the name of the vizier (i.e., the prime minister) of the Persian king Ahasuerus (Esther 3:1, etc.). He is called an “Agagite,” which seems to denote that he was desce"}, {"id": "card_n_72ee8398374b", "title": "Easton: Amethyst", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the precious stones in the breastplate of the high priest (Ex. 28:19; 39:12), and in the foundation of the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:20). The ancients thought that this stone had the power of disp"}, {"id": "card_n_d3346d27eaef", "title": "Easton: Zerubbabel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The seed of Babylon, the son of Salathiel or Shealtiel (Hag. 1:1; Zorobabel, Matt. 1:12); called also the son of Pedaiah (1 Chr. 3:17-19), i.e., according to a frequent usage of the word “son;” the gr"}, {"id": "card_n_e4bb5d58f8af", "title": "Easton: Sela", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Se’lah, rock, the capital of Edom, situated in the great valley extending from the Dead Sea to the Red Sea (2 Kings 14:7). It was near Mount Hor, close by the desert of Zin. It is called “the rock” ("}, {"id": "card_n_ebb9ee6aa3ee", "title": "Easton: Malachi", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Messenger or angel, the last of the minor prophets, and the writer of the last book of the Old Testament canon (Mal. 4:4, 5, 6). Nothing is known of him beyond what is contained in his book of prophec"}, {"id": "card_n_4c3273cdf559", "title": "Easton: Dispersion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. diaspora, “scattered,” James 1:1; 1 Pet. 1:1) of the Jews. At various times, and from the operation of divers causes, the Jews were separated and scattered into foreign countries “to the outmost "}, {"id": "card_n_5687975b1ee1", "title": "Easton: Marble", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As a mineral, consists of carbonate of lime, its texture varying from the highly crystalline to the compact. In Esther 1:6 there are four Hebrew words which are rendered marble:, (1.) Shesh, “pillars "}]}