{"query": "Easton: Testament", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_bcf612baa9e1", "title": "Easton: Testament", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Occurs twelve times in the New Testament (Heb. 9:15, etc.) as the rendering of the Gr. diatheke, which is twenty times rendered “covenant” in the Authorized Version, and always so in the Revised Versi"}, {"id": "card_n_6bd81caffadd", "title": "Easton: Syriac", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(2 Kings 18:26; Ezra 4:7; Dan. 2:4), more correctly rendered “Aramaic,” including both the Syriac and the Chaldee languages. In the New Testament there are several Syriac words, such as “Eloi, Eloi, l"}, {"id": "card_n_d0a36622cd97", "title": "Easton: Covenant", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A contract or agreement between two parties. In the Old Testament the Hebrew word berith is always thus translated. Berith is derived from a root which means “to cut,” and hence a covenant is a “cutti"}, {"id": "card_n_fb5c0aaf1941", "title": "Easton: Messiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. mashiah), in all the thirty-nine instances of its occurring in the Old Testament, is rendered by the LXX. “Christos.” It means anointed. Thus priests (Ex. 28:41; 40:15; Num. 3:3), prophets (1 Ki"}, {"id": "card_n_9766871f45b6", "title": "Easton: Quotations", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From the Old Testament in the New, which are very numerous, are not made according to any uniform method. When the New Testament was written, the Old was not divided, as it now is, into chapters and v"}, {"id": "card_n_4150298825ee", "title": "Easton: Hebrew language", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The language of the Hebrew nation, and that in which the Old Testament is written, with the exception of a few portions in Chaldee. In the Old Testament it is only spoken of as “Jewish” (2 Kings 18:26"}, {"id": "card_n_8464079d9b3f", "title": "Easton: New Testament", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Luke 22:20), rather “New Covenant,” in contrast to the old covenant of works, which is superseded. “The covenant of grace is called new; it succeeds to the old broken covenant of works. It is ever fr"}, {"id": "card_n_779567f94985", "title": "Easton: Vaticanus, Codex", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is said to be the oldest extant vellum manuscript. It and the Codex Sinaiticus are the two oldest uncial manuscripts. They were probably written in the fourth century. The Vaticanus was placed in the "}, {"id": "card_n_8b7feef8497c", "title": "Easton: Scripture", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Invariably in the New Testament denotes that definite collection of sacred books, regarded as given by inspiration of God, which we usually call the Old Testament (2 Tim. 3:15, 16; John 20:9; Gal. 3:2"}, {"id": "card_n_29f94b123a26", "title": "Easton: Church", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Derived probably from the Greek kuriakon (i.e., “the Lord’s house”), which was used by ancient authors for the place of worship. In the New Testament it is the translation of the Greek word ecclesia, "}, {"id": "card_n_d80fbe8b0d63", "title": "Easton: Apocrypha", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hidden, spurious, the name given to certain ancient books which found a place in the LXX. and Latin Vulgate versions of the Old Testament, and were appended to all the great translations made from the"}, {"id": "card_n_60d23d6d1465", "title": "Easton: Elioenai", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Toward Jehovah are my eyes, the name of several men mentioned in the Old Testament (1 Chr. 7:8; 4:36; Ezra 10:22, 27). Among these was the eldest son of Neariah, son of Shemaiah, of the descendants of"}, {"id": "card_n_e2f860e7d5f2", "title": "Easton: Dye", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The art of dyeing is one of great antiquity, although no special mention is made of it in the Old Testament. The Hebrews probably learned it from the Egyptians (see Ex. 26:1; 28:5-8), who brought it t"}, {"id": "card_n_4aa47c220cf2", "title": "Easton: Belial", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Worthlessness, frequently used in the Old Testament as a proper name. It is first used in Deut. 13:13. In the New Testament it is found only in 2 Cor. 6:15, where it is used as a name of Satan, the pe"}, {"id": "card_n_fc28befc80c3", "title": "Easton: Rock", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. tsur), employed as a symbol of God in the Old Testament (1 Sam. 2:2; 2 Sam. 22:3; Isa. 17:10; Ps. 28:1; 31:2, 3; 89:26; 95:1); also in the New Testament (Matt. 16:18; Rom. 9:33; 1 Cor. 10:4). In"}, {"id": "card_n_9bf7ce2fdd05", "title": "Easton: Caesar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The title assumed by the Roman emperors after Julius Caesar. In the New Testament this title is given to various emperors as sovereigns of Judaea without their accompanying distinctive proper names (J"}, {"id": "card_n_464d6678fdb0", "title": "Easton: Frog", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. tsepharde’a, meaning a “marsh-leaper”). This reptile is mentioned in the Old Testament only in connection with one of the plagues which fell on the land of Egypt (Ex. 8:2-14; Ps. 78:45; 105:30)."}, {"id": "card_n_0da65c6d6d7b", "title": "Easton: Hagiographa", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The holy writings, a term which came early into use in the Christian church to denote the third division of the Old Testament scriptures, called by the Jews Kethubim, i.e., “Writings.” It consisted of"}, {"id": "card_n_646dfa6224c0", "title": "Easton: Fear of the Lord the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is in the Old Testament used as a designation of true piety (Prov. 1:7; Job 28:28; Ps. 19:9). It is a fear conjoined with love and hope, and is therefore not a slavish dread, but rather filial reveren"}, {"id": "card_n_c43986684fdf", "title": "Easton: Oracle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In the Old Testament used in every case, except 2 Sam. 16:23, to denote the most holy place in the temple (1 Kings 6:5, 19-23; 8:6). In 2 Sam. 16:23 it means the Word of God. A man inquired “at the or"}]}