{"query": "Easton: Roll", "count": 12, "results": [{"id": "card_n_e1bdd3e5345c", "title": "Easton: Roll", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The common form of ancient books. The Hebrew word rendered “roll” or “volume” is meghillah, found in Ezra 6:2; Ps. 40:7; Jer. 36:2, 6, 23, 28, 29; Ezek. 2:9; 3:1-3; Zech. 5:1, 2. “Rolls” (Chald. pl. o"}, {"id": "card_c_75f4921ad07f", "title": "Easton: Roll cites Ezra", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Ezra 6:2; Ezra 6:1 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_6ad77e3c9b38", "title": "Easton: Elnathan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whom God has given. (1.) An inhabitant of Jerusalem, the father of Nehushta, who was the mother of king Jehoiachin (2 Kings 24:8). Probably the same who tried to prevent Jehoiakim from burning the rol"}, {"id": "card_n_7689f53adb2d", "title": "Easton: Delaiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Freed by Jehovah. (1.) The head of the twenty-third division of the priestly order (1 Chr. 24:18). (2.) A son of Shemaiah, and one of the courtiers to whom Jeremiah’s first roll of prophecy was read ("}, {"id": "card_n_2d5acfac2f70", "title": "Easton: Leaf", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of a tree. The olive-leaf mentioned Gen. 8:11. The barren fig-tree had nothing but leaves (Matt. 21:19; Mark 11:13). The oak-leaf is mentioned Isa. 1:30; 6:13. There are numerous allusions to leaves, "}, {"id": "card_n_f4d33d1fe36a", "title": "Easton: Ahikam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Brother of support = helper, one of the five whom Josiah sent to consult the prophetess Huldah in connection with the discovery of the book of the law (2 Kings 22:12-14; 2 Chr. 34:20). He was the son "}, {"id": "card_n_a2becb691a05", "title": "Easton: Gemariah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah has made perfect. (1.) The son of Shaphan, and one of the Levites of the temple in the time of Jehoiakim (Jer. 36:10; 2 Kings 22:12). Baruch read aloud to the people from Gemariah’s chamber, a"}, {"id": "card_n_08732dd5cfe9", "title": "Easton: Seraiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Soldier of Jehovah. (1.) The father of Joab (1 Chr. 4:13, 14). (2.) The grandfather of Jehu (1 Chr. 4:35). (3.) One of David’s scribes or secretaries (2 Sam. 8:17). (4.) A Netophathite (Jer. 40:8), a "}, {"id": "card_n_805840165576", "title": "Easton: Baruch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Blessed. (1.) The secretary of the prophet Jeremiah (32:12; 36:4). He was of the tribe of Judah (51:59). To him Jeremiah dictated his prophecies regarding the invasion of the Babylonians and the Capti"}, {"id": "card_n_38e4cd414e5d", "title": "Easton: Book", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word has a comprehensive meaning in Scripture. In the Old Testament it is the rendering of the Hebrew word sepher, which properly means a “writing,” and then a “volume” (Ex. 17:14; Deut. 28:58; 2"}, {"id": "card_n_abd17e525428", "title": "Easton: Deuteronomy", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In all the Hebrew manuscripts the Pentateuch (q.v.) forms one roll or volume divided into larger and smaller sections called parshioth_ and _sedarim. It is not easy to say when it was divided into fiv"}, {"id": "card_n_8d4a34825837", "title": "Easton: Pentateuch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The five-fold volume, consisting of the first five books of the Old Testament. This word does not occur in Scripture, nor is it certainly known when the roll was thus divided into five portions Genesi"}]}