{"query": "Easton: Wailing-place, Jews’", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_21b324ea833f", "title": "Easton: Wailing-place, Jews’", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A section of the western wall of the temple area, where the Jews assemble every Friday afternoon to bewail their desolate condition (Ps. 79:1, 4, 5). The stones in this part of the wall are of great s"}, {"id": "card_n_e06f3c060113", "title": "Easton: Hinnom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A deep, narrow ravine separating Mount Zion from the so-called “Hill of Evil Counsel.” It took its name from “some ancient hero, the son of Hinnom.” It is first mentioned in Josh. 15:8. It had been th"}, {"id": "card_n_f1d1a72d85aa", "title": "Easton: Claudius", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lame. (1.) The fourth Roman emperor. He succeeded Caligula (A.D. 41). Though in general he treated the Jews, especially those in Asia and Egypt, with great indulgence, yet about the middle of his reig"}, {"id": "card_n_2a4cde8be49b", "title": "Easton: Exorcist", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Acts 19:13). “In that sceptical and therefore superstitious age professional exorcist abounded. Many of these professional exorcists were disreputable Jews, like Simon in Samaria and Elymas in Cyprus"}, {"id": "card_n_2e5eecd9c3f4", "title": "Easton: Samaritans", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to the new and mixed inhabitants whom Esarhaddon (B.C. 677), the king of Assyria, brought from Babylon and other places and settled in the cities of Samaria, instead of the original inh"}, {"id": "card_n_4c3273cdf559", "title": "Easton: Dispersion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. diaspora, “scattered,” James 1:1; 1 Pet. 1:1) of the Jews. At various times, and from the operation of divers causes, the Jews were separated and scattered into foreign countries “to the outmost "}, {"id": "card_n_16e2e3ffa90f", "title": "Easton: Grecians", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hellenists, Greek-Jews; Jews born in a foreign country, and thus did not speak Hebrew (Acts 6:1; 9:29), nor join in the Hebrew services of the Jews in Palestine, but had synagogues of their own in Jer"}, {"id": "card_n_faea09fdb08c", "title": "Easton: Cyrene", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A city (now Tripoli) in Upper Libya, North Africa, founded by a colony of Greeks (B.C. 630). It contained latterly a large number of Jews, who were introduced into the city by Ptolemy, the son of Lagu"}, {"id": "card_n_d7529710ccc0", "title": "Easton: Sepharad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Obad. 1:20), some locality unknown. The modern Jews think that Spain is meant, and hence they designate the Spanish Jews “Sephardim,” as they do the German Jews by the name “Ashkenazim,” because the "}, {"id": "card_n_8c47e9d129ae", "title": "Easton: Tertullus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A modification of “Tertius;” a Roman advocate, whom the Jews employed to state their case against Paul in the presence of Felix (Acts 24:1-9). The charges he adduced against the apostle were, “First, "}, {"id": "card_n_e3616f871091", "title": "Easton: Maccabees, Books of the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There were originally five books of the Maccabees. The first contains a history of the war of independence, commencing (B.C. 175) in a series of patriotic struggles against the tyranny of Antiochus Ep"}, {"id": "card_n_0c498c3c5dcd", "title": "Easton: Stranger", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word generally denotes a person from a foreign land residing in Palestine. Such persons enjoyed many privileges in common with the Jews, but still were separate from them. The relation of the Jew"}, {"id": "card_n_114f779f9d18", "title": "Easton: Thessalonica", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A large and populous city on the Thermaic bay. It was the capital of one of the four Roman districts of Macedonia, and was ruled by a praetor. It was named after Thessalonica, the wife of Cassander, w"}, {"id": "card_n_8ef7418cf050", "title": "Easton: Arimathea", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A “city of the Jews” (Luke 23:51), the birth-place of Joseph in whose sepulchre our Lord was laid (Matt. 27:57, 60; John 19:38). It is probably the same place as Ramathaim in Ephraim, and the birth-pl"}, {"id": "card_n_7df96180ca83", "title": "Easton: Felix", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Happy, the Roman procurator of Judea before whom Paul “reasoned” (Acts 24:25). He appears to have expected a bribe from Paul, and therefore had several interviews with him. The “worthy deeds” referred"}, {"id": "card_n_1a8808bd0681", "title": "Easton: Publican", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who farmed the taxes (e.g., Zacchaeus, Luke 19:2) to be levied from a town or district, and thus undertook to pay to the supreme government a certain amount. In order to collect the taxes, the pub"}, {"id": "card_n_823cd1eea651", "title": "Easton: Door-posts", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Jews were commanded to write the divine name on the posts (mezuzoth’) of their doors (Deut. 6:9). The Jews, misunderstanding this injunction, adopted the custom of writing on a slip of parchment t"}, {"id": "card_n_e5a2dbc040bc", "title": "Easton: Congregation, mount of the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 14:13), has been supposed to refer to the place where God promised to meet with his people (Ex. 25:22; 29:42, 43) i.e., the mount of the Divine presence, Mount Zion. But here the king of Babylon"}, {"id": "card_n_3f3e93a90ba2", "title": "Easton: Tables", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Mark 7:4) means banqueting-couches or benches, on which the Jews reclined when at meals. This custom, along with the use of raised tables like ours, was introduced among the Jews after the Captivity."}, {"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"}]}