{"query": "Easton: Tradition", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_e04d8ca9fba8", "title": "Easton: Tradition", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Any kind of teaching, written or spoken, handed down from generation to generation. In Mark 7:3, 9, 13, Col. 2:8, this word refers to the arbitrary interpretations of the Jews. In 2 Thess. 2:15; 3:6, "}, {"id": "card_n_2e6ce5fca91a", "title": "Easton: Lamentations, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called in the Hebrew canon ’Ekhah, meaning “How,” being the formula for the commencement of a song of wailing. It is the first word of the book (see 2 Sam. 1:19-27). The LXX. adopted the name rendered"}, {"id": "card_c_b24974634578", "title": "Easton: Tradition references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_889668855d1f", "title": "Easton: Tradition cites Mark", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Mark 7:3 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_cfb15ddad274", "title": "Easton: Tradition cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 15:10 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_35486821fc86", "title": "Easton: Sabbath day’s journey", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Supposed to be a distance of 2,000 cubits, or less than half-a-mile, the distance to which, according to Jewish tradition, it was allowable to travel on the Sabbath day without violating the law (Acts"}, {"id": "card_n_6ff462f28016", "title": "Easton: Potters field", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to the piece of ground which was afterwards bought with the money that had been given to Judas. It was called the “field of blood” (Matt. 27:7-10). Tradition places it in the valley of "}, {"id": "card_n_f1a22c93a685", "title": "Easton: Journey", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A day’s journey in the East is from 16 to 20 miles (Num. 11:31). (2.) A Sabbath-day’s journey is 2,000 paces or yards from the city walls (Acts 1:12). According to Jewish tradition, it was the di"}, {"id": "card_n_c760b1cd5195", "title": "Easton: Daberath", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Pasture, a Levitical town of Issachar (Josh. 19:12; 21:28), near the border of Zebulum. It is the modern small village of Deburich, at the base of Mount Tabor. Tradition has incorrectly made it the sc"}, {"id": "card_n_9eccb337d22d", "title": "Easton: Halhul", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Full of hollows, a town in the highlands of Judah (Josh. 15:58). It is now a small village of the same name, and is situated about 5 miles north-east of Hebron on the way to Jerusalem. There is an old"}, {"id": "card_n_77a96dddd02f", "title": "Easton: Thieves, The two", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Luke 23:32, 39-43), robbers, rather brigands, probably followers of Barabbas. Our Lord’s cross was placed between those of the “malefactors,” to add to the ignominy of his position. According to trad"}, {"id": "card_n_ec96176baf7f", "title": "Easton: Porch, Solomon’s", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A colonnade on the east of the temple, so called from a tradition that it was a relic of Solomon’s temple left standing after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. (Comp. 1 Kings 7:6.) The "}, {"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_e57ccb63eb48", "title": "Easton: Grave", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Among the ancient Hebrews graves were outside of cities in the open field (Luke 7:12; John 11:30). Kings (1 Kings 2:10) and prophets (1 Sam. 25:1) were generally buried within cities. Graves were gene"}, {"id": "card_n_d9f557168b6f", "title": "Easton: Leviathan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A transliterated Hebrew word (livyathan), meaning “twisted,” “coiled.” In Job 3:8, Revised Version, and marg. of Authorized Version, it denotes the dragon which, according to Eastern tradition, is an "}, {"id": "card_n_2acf4e5828ab", "title": "Easton: Ruth The Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was originally a part of the Book of Judges, but it now forms one of the twenty-four separate books of the Hebrew Bible. The history it contains refers to a period perhaps about one hundred and twenty"}, {"id": "card_n_ae5efc074d6e", "title": "Easton: Nethinim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to the hereditary temple servants in all the post-Exilian books of Scripture. The word means given, i.e., “those set apart”, viz., to the menial work of the sanctuary for the Levites. T"}, {"id": "card_n_5b73aa3dee52", "title": "Easton: Washing", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Mark 7:1-9). The Jews, like other Orientals, used their fingers when taking food, and therefore washed their hands before doing so, for the sake of cleanliness. Here the reference is to the ablutions"}, {"id": "card_n_16e019f825c8", "title": "Easton: Adullam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the royal cities of the Canaanites, now ‘Aid-el-ma (Josh. 12:15; 15:35). It stood on the old Roman road in the valley of Elah (q.v.), which was the scene of David’s memorable victory over Golia"}, {"id": "card_n_e72941a03901", "title": "Easton: Mark, Gospel according to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "It is the current and apparently well-founded tradition that Mark derived his information mainly from the discourses of Peter. In his mother’s house he would have abundant opportunities of obtaining i"}]}