{"query": "Easton: Star, Morning", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_154d4d078d35", "title": "Easton: Star, Morning", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A name figuratively given to Christ (Rev. 22:16; comp. 2 Pet. 1:19). When Christ promises that he will give the “morning star” to his faithful ones, he “promises that he will give to them himself, tha"}, {"id": "card_c_d2561be36782", "title": "Easton: Star, Morning references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_5ca55b6b0a65", "title": "Easton: Daystar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Which precedes and accompanies the sun-rising. It is found only in 2 Pet. 1:19, where it denotes the manifestation of Christ to the soul, imparting spiritual light and comfort. He is the “bright and m"}, {"id": "card_n_05e4265f7048", "title": "Easton: Astronomy", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hebrews were devout students of the wonders of the starry firmanent (Amos 5:8; Ps. 19). In the Book of Job, which is the oldest book of the Bible in all probability, the constellations are disting"}, {"id": "card_n_40ade7d64bd2", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_xxv: The Pythagoreans were wont betimes in the morning the first thing they did, t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Pythagoreans were wont betimes in the morning the first thing they did, to look up unto the heavens, to put themselves in mind of them who constantly and invariably did perform their task: as also"}, {"id": "card_n_fccffa9d40ab", "title": "Easton: Remphan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Acts 7:43; R.V., “Rephan”). In Amos 5:26 the Heb. Chiun (q.v.) is rendered by the LXX. “Rephan,” and this name is adopted by Luke in his narrative of the Acts. These names represent the star-god Satu"}, {"id": "card_n_240684b92c40", "title": "Easton: Arcturus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Bear-keeper, the name given by the ancients to the brightest star in the constellation Bootes. In the Authorized Version (Job 9:9; 38:32) it is the rendering of the Hebrew word ’ash, which probably de"}, {"id": "card_n_36bc0d25d84e", "title": "Easton: Orion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. Kesil; i.e., “the fool”, the name of a constellation (Job 9:9; 38:31; Amos 5:8) consisting of about eighty stars. The Vulgate renders thus, but the LXX. renders by Hesperus, i.e., “the evening-st"}, {"id": "card_n_954e0f9a06ad", "title": "Easton: Dove’s dung", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(2 Kings 6:25) has been generally understood literally. There are instances in history of the dung of pigeons being actually used as food during a famine. Compare also the language of Rabshakeh to the"}, {"id": "card_n_55446f052b23", "title": "Easton: Thistle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. hoah (2 Kings 14:9; Job 31:40). In Job 41:2 the Hebrew word is rendered “thorn,” but in the Revised Version “hook.” It is also rendered “thorn” in 2 Chr. 33:11; Prov. 26:9; Cant. 2:2; “bramb"}, {"id": "card_n_0d8566b1a5d6", "title": "Easton: Peor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Opening. (1.) A mountain peak (Num. 23:28) to which Balak led Balaam as a last effort to induce him to pronounce a curse upon Israel. When he looked on the tribes encamped in the acacia groves below h"}, {"id": "card_n_ec0c50ab4614", "title": "Easton: Wormwood", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. la’anah, the Artemisia absinthium of botanists. It is noted for its intense bitterness (Deut. 29:18; Prov. 5:4; Jer. 9:15; Amos 5:7). It is a type of bitterness, affliction, remorse, punitive suf"}, {"id": "card_n_cad0d491b8cc", "title": "Easton: Harod", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Palpitation, a fountain near which Gideon and his army encamped on the morning of the day when they encountered and routed the Midianites (Judg. 7). It was south of the hill Moreh. The present ‘Ain Ja"}, {"id": "card_n_c61aa49bf7b4", "title": "Easton: Esther", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The queen of Ahasuerus, and heroine of the book that bears her name. She was a Jewess named Hadas’sah (the myrtle), but when she entered the royal harem she received the name by which she henceforth b"}, {"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_16838d75beae", "title": "Easton: Raven", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ‘orebh, from a root meaning “to be black” (comp. Cant. 5:11); first mentioned as “sent forth” by Noah from the ark (Gen. 8:7). “Every raven after his kind” was forbidden as food (Lev. 11:15; Deut"}, {"id": "card_n_b9e78a502510", "title": "Easton: Sermon on the mount", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "After spending a night in solemn meditation and prayer in the lonely mountain-range to the west of the Lake of Galilee (Luke 6:12), on the following morning our Lord called to him his disciples, and f"}, {"id": "card_n_383ae27df1b2", "title": "Easton: Watches", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The periods into which the time between sunset and sunrise was divided. They are so called because watchmen relieved each other at each of these periods. There are frequent references in Scripture to "}, {"id": "card_n_ea1eb2bf8a62", "title": "Easton: Hour", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First found in Dan. 3:6; 4:19, 33;5:5. It is the rendering of the Chaldee shaah, meaning a “moment,” a “look.” It is used in the New Testament frequently to denote some determinate season (Matt. 8:13;"}, {"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"}]}