{"query": "Easton: Word, The", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_6b809ee37820", "title": "Easton: Bullock", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The translation of a word which is a generic name for horned cattle (Isa. 65:25). It is also rendered “cow” (Ezek. 4:15), “ox” (Gen. 12:16). (2.) The translation of a word always meaning an anima"}, {"id": "card_n_2133c346ee9b", "title": "Easton: Love", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word seems to require explanation only in the case of its use by our Lord in his interview with “Simon, the son of Jonas,” after his resurrection (John 21:16, 17). When our Lord says, “Lovest tho"}, {"id": "card_n_6ebe7f9139d7", "title": "Easton: Easter", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Originally a Saxon word (Eostre), denoting a goddess of the Saxons, in honour of whom sacrifices were offered about the time of the Passover. Hence the name came to be given to the festival of the Res"}, {"id": "card_n_ad9dc748d311", "title": "Easton: Horn", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Trumpets were at first horns perforated at the tip, used for various purposes (Josh. 6:4, 5). Flasks or vessels were made of horn (1 Sam. 16:1, 13; 1 Kings 1:39). But the word is used also metaphorica"}, {"id": "card_n_4d83e01c50a0", "title": "Easton: Atonement", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word does not occur in the Authorized Version of the New Testament except in Rom. 5:11, where in the Revised Version the word “reconciliation” is used. In the Old Testament it is of frequent occu"}, {"id": "card_n_58684f4f1f5a", "title": "Easton: Corn", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The word so rendered (dagan) in Gen. 27:28, 37, Num. 18:27, Deut. 28:51, Lam. 2:12, is a general term representing all the commodities we usually describe by the words corn, grain, seeds, peas, beans."}, {"id": "card_n_d070a34c67cf", "title": "Easton: Word of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. 4:12, etc.). The Bible so called because the writers of its several books were God’s organs in communicating his will to men. It is his “word,” because he speaks to us in its sacred pages. Whate"}, {"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_84d0c51936f1", "title": "Easton: Heathen", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. plural goyum). At first the word goyim denoted generally all the nations of the world (Gen. 18:18; comp. Gal. 3:8). The Jews afterwards became a people distinguished in a marked manner from the "}, {"id": "card_n_e1df4c77bac5", "title": "Easton: Word, The", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. Logos), one of the titles of our Lord, found only in the writings of John (John 1:1-14; 1 John 1:1; Rev. 19:13). As such, Christ is the revealer of God. His office is to make God known. “No man h"}, {"id": "card_n_56e151b61acf", "title": "Easton: Hell", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Derived from the Saxon helan, to cover; hence the covered or the invisible place. In Scripture there are three words so rendered: (1.) Sheol, occurring in the Old Testament sixty-five times. This word"}, {"id": "card_n_be06128aa496", "title": "Easton: Jehovah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The special and significant name (not merely an appellative title such as Lord [adonai]) by which God revealed himself to the ancient Hebrews (Ex. 6:2, 3). This name, the Tetragrammaton of the Greeks,"}, {"id": "card_n_f20ec40cc2e8", "title": "Easton: By-word", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hebrew millah (Job 30:9), a word or speech, and hence object of talk; Hebrew mashal (Ps. 44:14), a proverb or parable. When it denotes a sharp word of derision, as in Deut. 28:37, 1 Kings 9:7, 2 Chr. "}, {"id": "card_n_d423b7639365", "title": "Easton: Baptism, Christian", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An ordinance immediately instituted by Christ (Matt. 28:19, 20), and designed to be observed in the church, like that of the Supper, “till he come.” The words “baptize” and “baptism” are simply Greek "}, {"id": "card_n_1ab6b9f04639", "title": "Easton: Michtam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Writing; i.e., a poem or song found in the titles of Ps. 16; 56-60. Some translate the word “golden”, i.e., precious. It is rendered in the LXX. by a word meaning “tablet inscription” or a “stelograph"}, {"id": "card_n_8521c3585b3f", "title": "Easton: Captain", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. sar (1 Sam. 22:2; 2 Sam. 23:19). Rendered “chief,” Gen. 40:2; 41:9; rendered also “prince,” Dan. 1:7; “ruler,” Judg. 9:30; “governor,’ 1 Kings 22:26. This same Hebrew word denotes a military"}, {"id": "card_n_e1a68aa77be3", "title": "Easton: Anathema", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Anything laid up or suspended; hence anything laid up in a temple or set apart as sacred. In this sense the form of the word is anath(ee)ma, once in plural used in the Greek New Testament, in Luke 21:"}, {"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_b293beee5d09", "title": "Easton: Yoke", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Fitted on the neck of oxen for the purpose of binding to them the traces by which they might draw the plough, etc. (Num. 19:2; Deut. 21:3). It was a curved piece of wood called ’ol. (2.) In Jer. "}, {"id": "card_n_df21a88e0bd5", "title": "Easton: Axe", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Used in the Authorized Version of Deut. 19:5; 20:19; 1 Kings 6:7, as the translation of a Hebrew word which means “chopping.” It was used for felling trees (Isa. 10:34) and hewing timber for building."}]}