{"query": "Easton: Witness", "count": 17, "results": [{"id": "card_n_6277625c7696", "title": "Easton: Witness", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "More than one witness was required in criminal cases (Deut. 17:6; 19:15). They were the first to execute the sentence on the condemned (Deut. 13:9; 17:7; 1 Kings 21:13; Matt. 27:1; Acts 7:57, 58). Fal"}, {"id": "card_n_10c1d0425f60", "title": "Easton: Ed", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Witness, a word not found in the original Hebrew, nor in the LXX. and Vulgate, but added by the translators in the Authorized Version, also in the Revised Version, of Josh. 22:34. The words are litera"}, {"id": "card_n_6834a2d4716a", "title": "Easton: Witness of the Spirit", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Rom. 8:16), the consciousness of the gracious operation of the Spirit on the mind, “a certitude of the Spirit’s presence and work continually asserted within us”, manifested “in his comforting us, hi"}, {"id": "card_n_e44556ff7b1a", "title": "Easton: Martyr", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who bears witness of the truth, and suffers death in the cause of Christ (Acts 22:20; Rev. 2:13; 17:6). In this sense Stephen was the first martyr. The Greek word so rendered in all other cases is"}, {"id": "card_n_71b91a864610", "title": "Easton: Testimony", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Witness or evidence (2 Thess. 1:10). (2.) The Scriptures, as the revelation of God’s will (2 Kings 11:12; Ps. 19:7; 119:88; Isa. 8:16, 20). (3.) The altar raised by the Gadites and Reubenites (Jo"}, {"id": "card_c_4c3677901115", "title": "Easton: Witness references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_efaf258d6e9f", "title": "Easton: Witness cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 21:13 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_e81730290c74", "title": "Easton: Witness cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 7:57 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_6de6b9b58236", "title": "Easton: Galeed", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heap of witness, the name of the pile of stones erected by Jacob and Laban to mark the league of friendship into which they entered with each other (Gen. 31:47, 48). This was the name given to the “he"}, {"id": "card_n_76200f2ff6da", "title": "Easton: Bartholomew", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Son of Tolmai, one of the twelve apostles (Matt. 10:3; Acts 1:13); generally supposed to have been the same as Nathanael. In the synoptic gospels Philip and Bartholomew are always mentioned together, "}, {"id": "card_n_38bdc502efb4", "title": "Easton: Rainbow", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Caused by the reflection and refraction of the rays of the sun shining on falling rain. It was appointed as a witness of the divine faithfulness (Gen. 9:12-17). It existed indeed before, but it was th"}, {"id": "card_n_f41baa987d0f", "title": "Easton: Tabernacle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A house or dwelling-place (Job 5:24; 18:6, etc.). (2.) A portable shrine (comp. Acts 19:24) containing the image of Moloch (Amos 5:26; marg. and R.V., “Siccuth”). (3.) The human body (2 Cor. 5:1,"}, {"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_6ae7b068ea27", "title": "Easton: Phinehas", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mouth of brass, or from old Egypt, the negro. (1.) Son of Eleazar, the high priest (Ex. 6:25). While yet a youth he distinguished himself at Shittim by his zeal against the immorality into which the M"}, {"id": "card_n_f419a8e795cf", "title": "Easton: Luke", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The evangelist, was a Gentile. The date and circumstances of his conversion are unknown. According to his own statement (Luke 1:2), he was not an “eye-witness and minister of the word from the beginni"}, {"id": "card_n_efd92dd5f79e", "title": "Easton: Luke, Gospel according to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written by Luke. He does not claim to have been an eye-witness of our Lord’s ministry, but to have gone to the best sources of information within his reach, and to have written an orderly narrativ"}, {"id": "card_n_48613152e266", "title": "Easton: Baptism of Christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Christ had to be formally inaugurated into the public discharge of his offices. For this purpose he came to John, who was the representative of the law and the prophets, that by him he might be introd"}]}