{"query": "Easton: Syria", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_15cf1812afc8", "title": "Easton: Syria", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. Aram), the name in the Old Testament given to the whole country which lay to the north-east of Phoenicia, extending to beyond the Euphrates and the Tigris. Mesopotamia is called (Gen. 24:10; Deu"}, {"id": "card_n_f9f40f0265a5", "title": "Easton: Cyrenius", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Grecized form of Quirinus. His full name was Publius Sulpicius Quirinus. Recent historical investigation has proved that Quirinus was governor of Cilicia, which was annexed to Syria at the time of"}, {"id": "card_n_5e1dc6d0bfeb", "title": "Easton: Ben-hadad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The standing title of the Syrian kings, meaning “the son of Hadad.” (See HADADEZER.) (1.) The king of Syria whom Asa, king of Judah, employed to invade Israel (1 Kings 15:18). (2.) Son of the precedin"}, {"id": "card_n_872b89e55a65", "title": "Easton: Lebanon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "White, “the white mountain of Syria,” is the loftiest and most celebrated mountain range in Syria. It is a branch running southward from the Caucasus, and at its lower end forking into two parallel ra"}, {"id": "card_n_ef469bafedb3", "title": "Easton: Taxing", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Luke 2:2; R.V., “enrolment”), “when Cyrenius was governor of Syria,” is simply a census of the people, or an enrolment of them with a view to their taxation. The decree for the enrolment was the occa"}, {"id": "card_n_b42d7b947328", "title": "Easton: Aram", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The son of Shem (Gen. 10:22); according to Gen. 22:21, a grandson of Nahor. In Matt. 1:3, 4, and Luke 3:33, this word is the Greek form of Ram, the father of Amminadab (1 Chr. 2:10). The word means hi"}, {"id": "card_n_b9d1c313dce6", "title": "Easton: Hare", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ‘arnebeth) was prohibited as food according to the Mosaic law (Lev. 11:6; Deut. 14:7), “because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof.” The habit of this animal is to grind its teeth and"}, {"id": "card_n_89b77586ed79", "title": "Easton: Mesopotamia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The country between the two rivers (Heb. Aram-naharaim; i.e., “Syria of the two rivers”), the name given by the Greeks and Romans to the region between the Euphrates and the Tigris (Gen. 24:10; Deut. "}, {"id": "card_n_e373a1911a6f", "title": "Easton: Antioch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) In Syria, on the river Orontes, about 16 miles from the Mediterranean, and some 300 miles north of Jerusalem. It was the metropolis of Syria, and afterwards became the capital of the Roman provin"}, {"id": "card_n_6cba4f6bc006", "title": "Easton: Pul", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) An Assyrian king. It has been a question whether he was identical with Tiglath-pileser III. (q.v.), or was his predecessor. The weight of evidence is certainly in favour of their identity. Pul wa"}, {"id": "card_n_fa940ac90630", "title": "Easton: Hazael", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whom God beholds, an officer of Ben-hadad II., king of Syria, who ultimately came to the throne, according to the word of the Lord to Elijah (1 Kings 19:15), after he had put the king to death (2 King"}, {"id": "card_c_17bace9beb23", "title": "Easton: Syria references Romans", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Romans. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_0e2c85963a72", "title": "Easton: Chun", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the cities of Hadarezer, king of Syria. David procured brass (i.e., bronze or copper) from it for the temple (1 Chr. 18:8). It is called Berothai in 2 Sam. 8:8; probably the same as Berothah in"}, {"id": "card_n_72a54afcd69b", "title": "Easton: Tortoise", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. tsabh). Ranked among the unclean animals (Lev. 11:29). Land tortoises are common in Syria. The LXX. renders the word by “land crocodile.” The word, however, more probably denotes a lizard, calle"}, {"id": "card_n_acd5d25b3bb9", "title": "Easton: Arvad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Wandering, (Ezek. 27:8), a small island and city on the coast of Syria, mentioned as furnishing mariners and soldiers for Tyre. The inhabitants were called Arvadites. The name is written Aruada or Ara"}, {"id": "card_n_f6014b451c59", "title": "Easton: Zobah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Aram-Zobah, (Ps. 60, title), a Syrian province or kingdom to the south of Coele-Syria, and extending from the eastern slopes of Lebanon north and east toward the Euphrates. Saul and David had war wit"}, {"id": "card_n_9de284733d92", "title": "Easton: Rhodes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A rose, an island to the south of the western extremity of Asia Minor, between Coos and Patara, about 46 miles long and 18 miles broad. Here the apostle probably landed on his way from Greece to Syria"}, {"id": "card_n_58abd1e22959", "title": "Easton: Kenizzite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The name of a tribe referred to in the covenant God made with Abraham (Gen. 15:19). They are not mentioned among the original inhabitants of Canaan (Ex. 3:8; Josh. 3:10), and probably they inhabi"}, {"id": "card_n_7c9ac8cf3b99", "title": "Easton: Beans", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned in 2 Sam. 17:28 as having been brought to David when flying from Absalom. They formed a constituent in the bread Ezekiel (4:9) was commanded to make, as they were in general much used as an "}, {"id": "card_n_4c82845bf946", "title": "Easton: Tares", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The bearded darnel, mentioned only in Matt. 13:25-30. It is the Lolium temulentum, a species of rye-grass, the seeds of which are a strong soporific poison. It bears the closest resemblance to wheat t"}]}