{"query": "Easton: Post", "count": 19, "results": [{"id": "card_n_6c9d42bdea5d", "title": "Easton: Garrison", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. matstsab, a station; a place where one stands (1 Sam. 14:12); a military or fortified post (1 Sam. 13:23; 14:1, 4, 6, etc.). (2.) Heb. netsib, a prefect, superintendent; hence a military pos"}, {"id": "card_n_78baa62e42d3", "title": "Easton: Post", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A runner, or courier, for the rapid transmission of letters, etc. (2 Chr. 30:6; Esther 3:13, 15; 8:10, 14; Job 9:25; Jer. 51:31). Such messengers were used from very early times. Those employed b"}, {"id": "card_n_d94f34776bd9", "title": "Easton: Ziba", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Post; statue, “a servant of the house of Saul” (2 Sam. 9:2), who informed David that Mephibosheth, a son of Jonathan, was alive. He afterwards dealt treacherously toward Mephibosheth, whom he slandero"}, {"id": "card_c_2725b35d12ac", "title": "Easton: Post cites Esther", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Esther 3:13 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_2745d326bba5", "title": "Easton: Post cites Job", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Job 9:25 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_d8869046c211", "title": "Easton: Post cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 10:25 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_043d2ef601b6", "title": "Easton: Lintel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. mashkoph, a projecting cover (Ex. 12:22, 23; ver. 7, “upper door post,” but R.V. “lintel”); the head-piece of a door, which the Israelites were commanded to mark with the blood of the pascha"}, {"id": "card_n_0f7cba330ec1", "title": "Easton: Marcheshvan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The post-biblical name of the month which was the eighth of the sacred and the second of the civil year of the Jews. It began with the new moon of our November. It is once called Bul (1 Kings 6:38). A"}, {"id": "card_n_8ef5a09a7a77", "title": "Easton: Threshold", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. miphtan, probably a projecting beam at a higher point than the threshold proper (1 Sam. 5:4, 5; Ezek. 9:3; 10:4, 18; 46:2; 47:1); also rendered “door” and “door-post.” (2.) ‘Asuppim, pl. (Ne"}, {"id": "card_n_823cd1eea651", "title": "Easton: Door-posts", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Jews were commanded to write the divine name on the posts (mezuzoth’) of their doors (Deut. 6:9). The Jews, misunderstanding this injunction, adopted the custom of writing on a slip of parchment t"}, {"id": "card_n_6f8d7f85415d", "title": "Easton: Eber", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Beyond. (1.). The third post-duluvian patriach after Shem (Gen. 10:24; 11:14). He is regarded as the founder of the Hebrew race (10:21; Num. 24:24). In Luke 3:35 he is called Heber. (2.) One of the se"}, {"id": "card_n_9a92b12fb7b4", "title": "Easton: College", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. mishneh (2 Kings 22:14; 2 Chr. 34:22), rendered in Revised Version “second quarter”, the residence of the prophetess Huldah. The Authorized Version followed the Jewish commentators, who, followin"}, {"id": "card_n_d07cde39d4e7", "title": "Easton: Door-keeper", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word is used in Ps. 84:10 (R.V. marg., “stand at the threshold of,” etc.), but there it signifies properly “sitting at the threshold in the house of God.” The psalmist means that he would rather "}, {"id": "card_n_c4309b89f781", "title": "Easton: Ham", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Warm, hot, and hence the south; also an Egyptian word meaning “black”, the youngest son of Noah (Gen. 5:32; comp. 9:22, 24). The curse pronounced by Noah against Ham, properly against Canaan his fourt"}, {"id": "card_n_88255c9e83e6", "title": "Easton: Proportion of faith", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Rom. 12:6). Paul says here that each one was to exercise his gift of prophecy, i.e., of teaching, “according to the proportion of faith.” The meaning is, that the utterances of the “prophet” were not"}, {"id": "card_n_ae5efc074d6e", "title": "Easton: Nethinim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to the hereditary temple servants in all the post-Exilian books of Scripture. The word means given, i.e., “those set apart”, viz., to the menial work of the sanctuary for the Levites. T"}, {"id": "card_n_6acc64eb6306", "title": "Easton: Zacchaeus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Pure, a superintendant of customs; a chief tax-gather (publicanus) at Jericho (Luke 19:1-10). “The collection of customs at Jericho, which at this time produced and exported a considerable quantity of"}, {"id": "card_n_0985414ff4b3", "title": "Easton: Patriarch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A name employed in the New Testament with reference to Abraham (Heb. 7:4), the sons of Jacob (Acts 7:8, 9), and to David (2:29). This name is generally applied to the progenitors of families or “heads"}, {"id": "card_n_29f94b123a26", "title": "Easton: Church", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Derived probably from the Greek kuriakon (i.e., “the Lord’s house”), which was used by ancient authors for the place of worship. In the New Testament it is the translation of the Greek word ecclesia, "}]}