{"query": "Easton: Stars", "count": 15, "results": [{"id": "card_n_7927cf8b7e10", "title": "Easton: Stars", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The eleven stars (Gen. 37:9); the seven (Amos 5:8); wandering (Jude 1:13); seen in the east at the birth of Christ, probably some luminous meteors miraculously formed for this specific purpose (Matt. "}, {"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_ded0a1a22846", "title": "Easton: Stargazers", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 47:13), those who pretend to tell what will occur by looking upon the stars. The Chaldean astrologers “divined by the rising and setting, the motions, aspects, colour, degree of light, etc., of "}, {"id": "card_n_0d7b2ec525cd", "title": "Easton: Constellation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A cluster of stars, or stars which appear to be near each other in the heavens, and which astronomers have reduced to certain figures (as the “Great Bear,” the “Bull,” etc.) for the sake of classifica"}, {"id": "card_c_82e0c415b1ae", "title": "Easton: Stars references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_30cfb8cc238f", "title": "Easton: Stars cites Amos", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Amos 5:8 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_293044457036", "title": "Easton: Stars cites Jude", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Jude 1:13 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_44b8c00fa619", "title": "Easton: Stars cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 17:16 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_3e3b1843ff8a", "title": "Easton: Astrologer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Dan. 1:20; 2:2, 10, 27, etc.) Heb. ‘ashshaph’, an enchanter, one who professes to divine future events by the appearance of the stars. This science flourished among the Chaldeans. It was positively f"}, {"id": "card_n_222165569bb6", "title": "Easton: Sabaoth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The transliteration of the Hebrew word tsebha’oth, meaning “hosts,” “armies” (Rom. 9:29; James 5:4). In the LXX. the Hebrew word is rendered by “Almighty.” (See Rev. 4:8; comp. Isa. 6:3.) It may desig"}, {"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_098bfecbdf2c", "title": "Easton: Soothsayer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who pretends to prognosticate future events. Baalam is so called (Josh. 13:22; Heb. kosem, a “diviner,” as rendered 1 Sam. 6:2; rendered “prudent,” Isa. 3:2). In Isa. 2:6 and Micah 5:12 (Heb. yone"}, {"id": "card_n_e336d82739e0", "title": "Easton: Mystery", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The calling of the Gentiles into the Christian Church, so designated (Eph. 1:9, 10; 3:8-11; Col. 1:25-27); a truth undiscoverable except by revelation, long hid, now made manifest. The resurrection of"}, {"id": "card_n_22287c2f7117", "title": "Easton: Seven", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This number occurs frequently in Scripture, and in such connections as lead to the supposition that it has some typical meaning. On the seventh day God rested, and hallowed it (Gen. 2:2, 3). The divis"}, {"id": "card_n_df68c9d261cd", "title": "Easton: Idolatry", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Image-worship or divine honour paid to any created object. Paul describes the origin of idolatry in Rom. 1:21-25: men forsook God, and sank into ignorance and moral corruption (1:28). The forms of ido"}]}