{"query": "Easton: Sacrifice", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_bbe0e699912a", "title": "Easton: Sacrifice", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The offering up of sacrifices is to be regarded as a divine institution. It did not originate with man. God himself appointed it as the mode in which acceptable worship was to be offered to him by gui"}, {"id": "card_n_1e9457830045", "title": "Easton: Daily sacrifice", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Dan. 8:12; 11:31; 12:11), a burnt offering of two lambs of a year old, which were daily sacrificed in the name of the whole Israelitish people upon the great altar, the first at dawn of day, and the "}, {"id": "card_n_a18d58cb31f3", "title": "Easton: Meat-offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. minhah), originally a gift of any kind. This Hebrew word came latterly to denote an “unbloody” sacrifice, as opposed to a “bloody” sacrifice. A “drink-offering” generally accompanied it. The law"}, {"id": "card_n_92c6a001e707", "title": "Easton: Calf", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Calves were commonly made use of in sacrifices, and are therefore frequently mentioned in Scripture. The “fatted calf” was regarded as the choicest of animal food; it was frequently also offered as a "}, {"id": "card_n_b03fc83a1c3e", "title": "Easton: Blemish", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Imperfection or bodily deformity excluding men from the priesthood, and rendering animals unfit to be offered in sacrifice (Lev. 21:17-23; 22:19-25). The Christian church, as justified in Christ, is “"}, {"id": "card_n_12ce9a5d36c8", "title": "Easton: Bird", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Birds are divided in the Mosaic law into two classes, (1) the clean (Lev. 1:14-17; 5:7-10; 14:4-7), which were offered in sacrifice; and (2) the unclean (Lev. 11:13-20). When offered in sacrifice, the"}, {"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_e4bfef18f9ff", "title": "Easton: Altar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. mizbe’ah, from a word meaning “to slay”), any structure of earth (Ex. 20:24) or unwrought stone (20:25) on which sacrifices were offered. Altars were generally erected in conspicuous places (Gen"}, {"id": "card_n_b4a51340736e", "title": "Easton: Intercession of Christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Christ’s priestly office consists of these two parts, (1) the offering up of himself as a sacrifice, and (2) making continual intercession for us. When on earth he made intercession for his people (Lu"}, {"id": "card_n_8f0a85097bdc", "title": "Easton: Turtle, Turtle-dove", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Its peculiar peaceful and gentle habit its often referred to in Scripture. A pair was offered in sacrifice by Mary at her purification (Luke 2:24). The pigeon and the turtle-dove were the only birds p"}, {"id": "card_c_14c40023ef88", "title": "Easton: Sacrifice references Hebrews", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Hebrews. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_3dd7aa5595a0", "title": "Easton: Disciple", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A scholar, sometimes applied to the followers of John the Baptist (Matt. 9:14), and of the Pharisees (22:16), but principally to the followers of Christ. A disciple of Christ is one who (1) believes h"}, {"id": "card_n_b1d045e329f2", "title": "Easton: Mercy", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Compassion for the miserable. Its object is misery. By the atoning sacrifice of Christ a way is open for the exercise of mercy towards the sons of men, in harmony with the demands of truth and righteo"}, {"id": "card_n_2c86349ac717", "title": "Easton: Heifer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ‘eglah, (Deut. 21:4, 6; Jer. 46:20). Untrained to the yoke (Hos. 10:11); giving milk (Isa. 7:21); ploughing (Judg. 14:18); treading out grain (Jer. 50:11); unsubdued to the yoke an emblem of Juda"}, {"id": "card_n_eda5117447df", "title": "Easton: First-born, Sanctification of the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A peculiar sanctity was attached to the first-born both of man and of cattle. God claimed that the first-born males of man and of animals should be consecrated to him, the one as a priest (Ex. 19:22, "}, {"id": "card_n_9bbf8334bd0a", "title": "Easton: Animal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An organized living creature endowed with sensation. The Levitical law divided animals into clean and unclean, although the distinction seems to have existed before the Flood (Gen. 7:2). The clean cou"}, {"id": "card_n_0b5c0fbe5a50", "title": "Easton: Flesh-hook", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A many-pronged fork used in the sacrificial services (1 Sam. 2:13, 14; Ex. 27:3; 38:3) by the priest in drawing away the flesh. The fat of the sacrifice, together with the breast and shoulder (Lev. 7:"}, {"id": "card_n_954d1069825b", "title": "Easton: Knife", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. hereb, “the waster,” a sharp instrument for circumcision (Josh. 5:2, 3, lit. “knives of flint;” comp. Ex. 4:25); a razor (Ezek. 5:1); a graving tool (Ex. 20:25); an axe (Ezek. 26:9). (2.) He"}, {"id": "card_n_0e26ba1fdd35", "title": "Easton: Fat", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. heleb) denotes the richest part of the animal, or the fattest of the flock, in the account of Abel’s sacrifice (Gen. 4:4). It sometimes denotes the best of any production (Gen. 45:18; Num. 18:12"}, {"id": "card_n_112346515522", "title": "Easton: Treasury", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Matt. 27:6; Mark 12:41; John 8:20). It does not appear that there was a separate building so called. The name was given to the thirteen brazen chests, called “trumpets,” from the form of the opening "}]}