{"query": "Easton: Slave", "count": 12, "results": [{"id": "card_n_bb6a0264e07f", "title": "Easton: Onesimus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Useful, a slave who, after robbing his master Philemon (q.v.) at Colosse, fled to Rome, where he was converted by the apostle Paul, who sent him back to his master with the epistle which bears his nam"}, {"id": "card_n_00343224ea02", "title": "Easton: Slave", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jer. 2:14 (A.V.), but not there found in the original. In Rev. 18:13 the word “slaves” is the rendering of a Greek word meaning “bodies.” The Hebrew and Greek words for slave are usually rendered simp"}, {"id": "card_n_f9bd9bc02f9e", "title": "Easton: Awl", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An instrument only referred to in connection with the custom of boring the ear of a slave (Ex. 21:6; Deut. 15:17), in token of his volunteering perpetual service when he might be free. (Comp. Ps. 40:6"}, {"id": "card_n_190c252f3c03", "title": "Easton: Freedom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The law of Moses pointed out the cases in which the servants of the Hebrews were to receive their freedom (Ex. 21:2-4, 7, 8; Lev. 25:39-42, 47-55; Deut. 15:12-18). Under the Roman law the “freeman” (i"}, {"id": "card_n_b5974b5050f2", "title": "Easton: Malchus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Reigning, the personal servant or slave of the high priest Caiaphas. He is mentioned only by John. Peter cut off his right ear in the garden of Gethsemane (John 18:10). But our Lord cured it with a to"}, {"id": "card_n_87480a2f4984", "title": "Easton: Allegory", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Used only in Gal. 4:24, where the apostle refers to the history of Isaac the free-born, and Ishmael the slave-born, and makes use of it allegorically. Every parable is an allegory. Nathan (2 Sam. 12:1"}, {"id": "card_n_4dda736c33a9", "title": "Easton: Libertine", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Found only Acts 6:9, one who once had been a slave, but who had been set at liberty, or the child of such a person. In this case the name probably denotes those descendants of Jews who had been carrie"}, {"id": "card_n_45c76ed549cc", "title": "Easton: Greece", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Orginally consisted of the four provinces of Macedonia, Epirus, Achaia, and Peleponnesus. In Acts 20:2 it designates only the Roman province of Macedonia. Greece was conquered by the Romans B.C. 146. "}, {"id": "card_n_c4d5bb49da3c", "title": "Easton: Naaman", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Pleasantness, a Syrian, the commander of the armies of Benhadad II. in the time of Joram, king of Israel. He was afflicted with leprosy; and when the little Hebrew slave-girl that waited on his wife t"}, {"id": "card_n_d46250e36e08", "title": "Easton: Ransom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The price or payment made for our redemption, as when it is said that the Son of man “gave his life a ransom for many” (Matt. 20:28; comp. Acts 20:28; Rom. 3:23, 24; 1 Cor. 6:19, 20; Gal. 3:13; 4:4, 5"}, {"id": "card_n_35577e29e930", "title": "Easton: Ishmael", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God hears. (1.) Abraham’s eldest son, by Hagar the concubine (Gen. 16:15; 17:23). He was born at Mamre, when Abraham was eighty-six years of age, eleven years after his arrival in Canaan (16:3; 21:5)."}, {"id": "card_n_4d86f761eb36", "title": "Easton: Pilate, Pontius", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Probably connected with the Roman family of the Pontii, and called “Pilate” from the Latin pileatus, i.e., “wearing the pileus”, which was the “cap or badge of a manumitted slave,” as indicating that "}]}