{"query": "Easton: Stephen", "count": 12, "results": [{"id": "card_n_06aa0f5f9391", "title": "Easton: Stephen", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the seven deacons, who became a preacher of the gospel. He was the first Christian martyr. His personal character and history are recorded in Acts 6. “He fell asleep” with a prayer for his pers"}, {"id": "card_c_db95b60cb185", "title": "Easton: Stephen cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 22:19 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_f10db0ba1ac2", "title": "Easton: Stephen references Saul", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Saul (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_a3d3280d8bb7", "title": "Easton: Stephen references Tarsus", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Tarsus (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_6da44a31a50e", "title": "Easton: Chiun", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Occurs only in Amos 5:26 (R.V. marg., “shrine”). The LXX. translated the word by Rhephan, which became corrupted into Remphan, as used by Stephen (Acts 7:43; but R.V., “Rephan”). Probably the planet S"}, {"id": "card_n_e44556ff7b1a", "title": "Easton: Martyr", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who bears witness of the truth, and suffers death in the cause of Christ (Acts 22:20; Rev. 2:13; 17:6). In this sense Stephen was the first martyr. The Greek word so rendered in all other cases is"}, {"id": "card_n_83690d0d297b", "title": "Easton: Mourn", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Frequent references are found in Scripture to, (1.) Mourning for the dead. Abraham mourned for Sarah (Gen. 23:2); Jacob for Joseph (37:34, 35); the Egyptians for Jacob (50:3-10); Israel for Aaron (Num"}, {"id": "card_n_f2fc8ec22344", "title": "Easton: Sanhedrim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "More correctly Sanhedrin (Gr. synedrion), meaning “a sitting together,” or a “council.” This word (rendered “council,” A.V.) is frequently used in the New Testament (Matt. 5:22; 26:59; Mark 15:1, etc."}, {"id": "card_n_7d9956a4576e", "title": "Easton: Philip", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lover of horses. (1.) One of the twelve apostles; a native of Bethsaida, “the city of Andrew and Peter” (John 1:44). He readily responded to the call of Jesus when first addressed to him (43), and for"}, {"id": "card_n_fa1a942e187a", "title": "Easton: Bethesda", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "House of mercy, a reservoir (Gr. kolumbethra, “a swimming bath”) with five porches, close to the sheep-gate or market (Neh. 3:1; John 5:2). Eusebius the historian (A.D. 330) calls it “the sheep-pool.”"}, {"id": "card_n_4f4a1850fb90", "title": "Easton: Exodus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The great deliverance wrought for the children of Isreal when they were brought out of the land of Egypt with “a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm” (Ex 12:51; Deut. 26:8; Ps 114; 136), about B."}, {"id": "card_n_a463240061b5", "title": "Easton: Alexandria", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The ancient metropolis of Lower Egypt, so called from its founder, Alexander the Great (about B.C. 333). It was for a long period the greatest of existing cities, for both Nineveh and Babylon had been"}]}