{"query": "Easton: Shepherd", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_4c83f4c09b41", "title": "Easton: Shepherd", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A word naturally of frequent occurence in Scripture. Sometimes the word “pastor” is used instead (Jer. 2:8; 3:15; 10:21; 12:10; 17:16). This word is used figuratively to represent the relation of rule"}, {"id": "card_n_9f70a75c8771", "title": "Easton: Moses", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Drawn (or Egypt. mesu, “son;” hence Rameses, royal son). On the invitation of Pharaoh (Gen. 45:17-25), Jacob and his sons went down into Egypt. This immigration took place probably about 350 years bef"}, {"id": "card_c_6070bbdc37d8", "title": "Easton: Shepherd cites Nahum", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Nahum 3:18 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_3f1a40686a86", "title": "Easton: Shepherd cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 10:11 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_8b344e295909", "title": "Easton: Hermas", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mercury, a Roman Christian to whom Paul sends greetings (Rom. 16: 14). Some suppose him to have been the author of the celebrated religious romance called The Shepherd, but it is very probable that th"}, {"id": "card_n_91a860fa326a", "title": "Easton: Sceptre", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. shebet = Gr. skeptron), properly a staff or rod. As a symbol of authority, the use of the sceptre originated in the idea that the ruler was as a shepherd of his people (Gen. 49:10; Num. 24:17; P"}, {"id": "card_n_be912262d5f1", "title": "Easton: Bands", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1) of love (Hos. 11:4); (2) of Christ (Ps. 2:3); (3) uniting together Christ’s body the church (Col. 2:19; 3:14; Eph. 4:3); (4) the emblem of the captivity of Israel (Ezek. 34:27; Isa. 28:22; 52:2); "}, {"id": "card_c_b7708a341770", "title": "Easton: Shepherd references David", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions David (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_62105637980d", "title": "Easton: Shepherd references Palestine", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Palestine (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_fe05d1122bb5", "title": "Easton: Scrip", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A small bag or wallet usually fastened to the girdle (1 Sam. 17:40); “a shepherd’s bag.” In the New Testament it is the rendering of Gr. pera, which was a bag carried by travellers and shepherds, gene"}, {"id": "card_n_f13eeb39b444", "title": "Easton: Terah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The wanderer; loiterer, for some unknown reason emigrated with his family from his native mountains in the north to the plains of Mesopotamia. He had three sons, Haran, Nahor, and Abraham, and one dau"}, {"id": "card_n_e2339f328782", "title": "Easton: Anakim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The descendants of Anak (Josh. 11:21; Num. 13:33; Deut. 9:2). They dwelt in the south of Palestine, in the neighbourhood of Hebron (Gen. 23:2; Josh. 15:13). In the days of Abraham (Gen. 14:5, 6) they "}, {"id": "card_n_3b6b2af72c47", "title": "Easton: Esau", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hairy, Rebekah’s first-born twin son (Gen. 25:25). The name of Edom, “red”, was also given to him from his conduct in connection with the red lentil “pottage” for which he sold his birthright (30, 31)"}, {"id": "card_n_66a391ecb6ba", "title": "Easton: Abomination", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word is used, (1.) To express the idea that the Egyptians considered themselves as defiled when they ate with strangers (Gen. 43:32). The Jews subsequently followed the same practice, holding it "}, {"id": "card_n_c509e7979431", "title": "Easton: Sheep", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Are of different varieties. Probably the flocks of Abraham and Isaac were of the wild species found still in the mountain regions of Persia and Kurdistan. After the Exodus, and as a result of intercou"}, {"id": "card_n_30931ccf98b6", "title": "Easton: Jacob", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who follows on another’s heels; supplanter, (Gen. 25:26; 27:36; Hos. 12:2-4), the second born of the twin sons of Isaac by Rebekah. He was born probably at Lahai-roi, when his father was fifty-nin"}, {"id": "card_n_497deb4deadf", "title": "Easton: Zoan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Old Egypt. Sant= “stronghold,” the modern San). A city on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, called by the Greeks Tanis. It was built seven years after Hebron in Palestine (Num. 13:22). This great and i"}, {"id": "card_n_12f104078338", "title": "Easton: Pharaoh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The official title borne by the Egyptian kings down to the time when that country was conquered by the Greeks. (See EGYPT.) The name is a compound, as some think, of the words Ra, the “sun” or “sun-go"}, {"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_1aea0e78ee46", "title": "Easton: David", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Beloved, the eighth and youngest son of Jesse, a citizen of Bethlehem. His father seems to have been a man in humble life. His mother’s name is not recorded. Some think she was the Nahash of 2 Sam. 17"}]}