{"query": "Easton: Sabbatical year", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_b83f131ff564", "title": "Easton: Sabbatical year", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Every seventh year, during which the land, according to the law of Moses, had to remain uncultivated (Lev. 25:2-7; comp. Ex. 23:10, 11, 12; Lev. 26:34, 35). Whatever grew of itself during that year wa"}, {"id": "card_n_9810cd0e8219", "title": "Easton: Poor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Mosaic legislation regarding the poor is specially important. (1.) They had the right of gleaning the fields (Lev. 19:9, 10; Deut. 24:19, 21). (2.) In the sabbatical year they were to have their s"}, {"id": "card_n_5c4ccf73a436", "title": "Easton: Year", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. shanah, meaning “repetition” or “revolution” (Gen. 1:14; 5:3). Among the ancient Egyptians the year consisted of twelve months of thirty days each, with five days added to make it a complete revo"}, {"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_0dbb2495b4d4", "title": "Easton: Debt", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Mosaic law encouraged the practice of lending (Deut. 15:7; Ps. 37:26; Matt. 5:42); but it forbade the exaction of interest except from foreigners. Usury was strongly condemned (Prov. 28:8; Ezek. 1"}, {"id": "card_n_bd8404b052c2", "title": "Easton: Nativity of Christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The birth of our Lord took place at the time and place predicted by the prophets (Gen. 49:10; Isa. 7:14; Jer. 31:15; Micah 5:2; Hag. 2:6-9; Dan. 9:24, 25). Joseph and Mary were providentially led to g"}, {"id": "card_n_762f89d493c9", "title": "Easton: Jubilee", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A joyful shout or clangour of trumpets, the name of the great semi-centennial festival of the Hebrews. It lasted for a year. During this year the land was to be fallow, and the Israelites were only pe"}, {"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_b667f9571c63", "title": "Easton: Beast", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word is used of flocks or herds of grazing animals (Ex. 22:5; Num. 20:4, 8, 11; Ps. 78:48); of beasts of burden (Gen. 45:17); of eatable beasts (Prov. 9:2); and of swift beasts or dromedaries (Is"}, {"id": "card_n_852257e9db4d", "title": "Easton: Month", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Among the Egyptians the month of thirty days each was in use long before the time of the Exodus, and formed the basis of their calculations. From the time of the institution of the Mosaic law the mont"}, {"id": "card_n_5a0d951f0365", "title": "Easton: Ezra, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This book is the record of events occurring at the close of the Babylonian exile. It was at one time included in Nehemiah, the Jews regarding them as one volume. The two are still distinguished in the"}, {"id": "card_n_b8d540332416", "title": "Easton: Deluge", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to Noah’s flood, the history of which is recorded in Gen. 7 and 8. It began in the year 2516 B.C., and continued twelve lunar months and ten days, or exactly one solar year. The cause o"}, {"id": "card_n_3f212c197f4d", "title": "Easton: Ethanim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The month of gifts, i.e., of vintage offerings; called Tisri after the Exile; corresponding to part of September and October. It was the first month of the civil year, and the seventh of the sacred ye"}, {"id": "card_n_f723578df001", "title": "Easton: Seventy weeks", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A prophetic period mentioned in Dan. 9:24, and usually interpreted on the “year-day” theory, i.e., reckoning each day for a year. This period will thus represent 490 years. This is regarded as the per"}, {"id": "card_n_d178a4db5064", "title": "Easton: Abib", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An ear of corn, the month of newly-ripened grain (Ex. 13:4; 23:15); the first of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, and the seventh of the civil year. It began about the time of the vernal equinox, on 21"}, {"id": "card_n_a1558eedbb4e", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_05_08: Seven kinds of punishment come to the world for seven categories of transgres...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Seven kinds of punishment come to the world for seven categories of transgression:When some of them give tithes, and others do not give tithes, a famine from drought comes some go hungry, and others a"}, {"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_e0182ba43379", "title": "Easton: Isaiah, The Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consists of prophecies delivered (Isa. 1) in the reign of Uzziah (1-5), (2) of Jotham (6), (3) Ahaz (7-14:28), (4) the first half of Hezekiah’s reign (14:28-35), (5) the second half of Hezekiah’s reig"}, {"id": "card_n_505b6804bcca", "title": "Easton: Mantle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. ‘addereth, a large over-garment. This word is used of Elijah’s mantle (1 Kings 19:13, 19; 2 Kings 2:8, 13, etc.), which was probably a sheepskin. It appears to have been his only garment, a "}, {"id": "card_n_8ce4e9af1826", "title": "Easton: Ezekiel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God will strengthen. (1.) 1 Chr. 24:16, “Jehezekel.” (2.) One of the great prophets, the son of Buzi the priest (Ezek. 1:3). He was one of the Jewish exiles who settled at Tel-Abib, on the banks of th"}]}