{"query": "Easton: Wife", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_19e9af3fa46d", "title": "Easton: Wife", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The ordinance of marriage was sanctioned in Paradise (Gen. 2:24; Matt. 19:4-6). Monogamy was the original law under which man lived, but polygamy early commenced (Gen. 4:19), and continued to prevail "}, {"id": "card_n_d2651b5f511d", "title": "Easton: Cleophas", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(in the spelling of this word h is inserted by mistake from Latin MSS.), rather Cleopas, which is the Greek form of the word, while Clopas is the Aramaic form. In John 19:25 the Authorized Version rea"}, {"id": "card_n_5865165127d0", "title": "Easton: Abigail", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Father (i.e., “leader”) of the dance, or “of joy.” (1.) The sister of David, and wife of Jether an Ishmaelite (1 Chr. 2:16, 17). She was the mother of Amasa (2 Sam. 17:25). (2.) The wife of the churli"}, {"id": "card_n_ae156ab14bbe", "title": "Easton: Antipas", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Herod Antipas, a son of Herod the Great by his Samaritan wife Malthace. He was tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea during the whole period of our Lord’s life on earth (Luke 23:7). He was a frivolous a"}, {"id": "card_n_f04ecbc0eb49", "title": "Easton: Concubine", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In the Bible denotes a female conjugally united to a man, but in a relation inferior to that of a wife. Among the early Jews, from various causes, the difference between a wife and a concubine was les"}, {"id": "card_n_1e2a6d9b6b70", "title": "Easton: Michal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Rivulet, or who as God?, the younger of Saul’s two daughters by his wife Ahinoam (1 Sam. 14:49, 50). “Attracted by the graces of his person and the gallantry of his conduct, she fell in love with Davi"}, {"id": "card_n_9b7efb5d3aa6", "title": "Easton: Burial", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The first burial we have an account of is that of Sarah (Gen. 23). The first commercial transaction recorded is that of the purchase of a burial-place, for which Abraham weighed to Ephron “four hundre"}, {"id": "card_n_2a814d3c5281", "title": "Easton: Ahinoam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Brother of pleasantness = pleasant. (1.) The daughter of Ahimaaz, and wife of Saul (1 Sam. 14:50). (2.) A Jezreelitess, the first wife of David (1 Sam. 25:43; 27:3). She was the mother of Amnon (2 Sam"}, {"id": "card_n_1e4c3305bbae", "title": "Easton: Dowry", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(mohar; i.e., price paid for a wife, Gen. 34:12; Ex. 22:17; 1 Sam. 18:25), a nuptial present; some gift, as a sum of money, which the bridegroom offers to the father of his bride as a satisfaction bef"}, {"id": "card_n_b99870ca074a", "title": "Easton: Huldah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Weasel, a prophetess; the wife of Shallum. She was consulted regarding the “book of the law” discovered by the high priest Hilkiah (2 Kings 22:14-20; 2 Chr. 34:22-28). She resided in that part of Jeru"}, {"id": "card_n_83dcc8166873", "title": "Easton: Naomi", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The lovable; my delight, the wife of Elimelech, and mother of Mahlon and Chilion, and mother-in-law of Ruth (1:2, 20, 21; 2:1). Elimelech and his wife left the district of Bethlehem-Judah, and found a"}, {"id": "card_n_5e3796a10633", "title": "Easton: Queen", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "No explicit mention of queens is made till we read of the “queen of Sheba.” The wives of the kings of Israel are not so designated. In Ps. 45:9, the Hebrew for “queen” is not malkah, one actually ruli"}, {"id": "card_n_5a006c598b69", "title": "Easton: Aquila", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Eagle, a native of Pontus, by occupation a tent-maker, whom Paul met on his first visit to Corinth (Acts 18:2). Along with his wife Priscilla he had fled from Rome in consequence of a decree (A.D. 50)"}, {"id": "card_n_76e73075506e", "title": "Easton: Pharaoh’s daughters", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Three princesses are thus mentioned in Scripture: (1.) The princess who adopted the infant Moses (q.v.), Ex. 2:10. She is twice mentioned in the New Testament (Acts 7:21: Heb. 11:24). It would seem th"}, {"id": "card_n_ba308fcd1d4f", "title": "Easton: Isaiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. Yesh’yahu, i.e., “the salvation of Jehovah”). (1.) The son of Amoz (Isa. 1:1; 2:1), who was apparently a man of humble rank. His wife was called “the prophetess” (8:3), either because she was en"}, {"id": "card_n_5fb49f6d21b3", "title": "Easton: Mary", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hebrew Miriam. (1.) The wife of Joseph, the mother of Jesus, called the “Virgin Mary,” though never so designated in Scripture (Matt. 2:11; Acts 1:14). Little is known of her personal history. Her gen"}, {"id": "card_n_92d23ae82bf7", "title": "Easton: Rechabites", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The descendants of Rechab through Jonadab or Jehonadab. They belonged to the Kenites, who accompanied the children of Israel into Palestine, and dwelt among them. Moses married a Kenite wife (Judg. 1:"}, {"id": "card_n_e1043bdb741a", "title": "Easton: Deborah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A bee. (1.) Rebekah’s nurse. She accompanied her mistress when she left her father’s house in Padan-aram to become the wife of Isaac (Gen. 24:59). Many years afterwards she died at Bethel, and was bur"}, {"id": "card_n_3c0550712d94", "title": "Easton: Eve", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Life; living, the name given by Adam to his wife (Gen. 3:20; 4:1). The account of her creation is given in Gen. 2:21, 22. The Creator, by declaring that it was not good for man to be alone, and by cre"}, {"id": "card_n_21cce410a6a5", "title": "Easton: Abihail", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Father of might. (1.) Num. 3:35. (2.) 1 Chr. 2:29. (3.) 1 Chr. 5:14. (4.) The second wife of King Rehoboam (2 Chr. 11:18), a descendant of Eliab, David’s eldest brother. (5.) The father of Esther and "}]}