{"query": "Easton: Day", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_9c24074fe17d", "title": "Easton: Day", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Jews reckoned the day from sunset to sunset (Lev. 23:32). It was originally divided into three parts (Ps. 55:17). “The heat of the day” (1 Sam. 11:11; Neh. 7:3) was at our nine o’clock, and “the c"}, {"id": "card_n_ea1eb2bf8a62", "title": "Easton: Hour", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First found in Dan. 3:6; 4:19, 33;5:5. It is the rendering of the Chaldee shaah, meaning a “moment,” a “look.” It is used in the New Testament frequently to denote some determinate season (Matt. 8:13;"}, {"id": "card_n_39fb74a3b5b2", "title": "Easton: Pentecost", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I.e., “fiftieth”, found only in the New Testament (Acts 2:1; 20:16; 1 Cor. 16:8). The festival so named is first spoken of in Ex. 23:16 as “the feast of harvest,” and again in Ex. 34:22 as “the day of"}, {"id": "card_n_db6466823b72", "title": "Easton: Atonement, Day of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The great annual day of humiliation and expiation for the sins of the nation, “the fast” (Acts 27:9), and the only one commanded in the law of Moses. The mode of its observance is described in Lev. 16"}, {"id": "card_ref_rda_iron", "title": "Iron — recommended daily allowance", "shelf": "nutrition", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Iron — recommended dietary allowance by life stage: child 9–13 8 mg/day, adolescent 14–18 male 11 mg/day, adolescent 14–18 female 15 mg/day, adult male 8 mg/day, adult female 19–50 18 mg/day, adult fe"}, {"id": "card_n_b0fbbec3a8f1", "title": "Easton: Lord’s day", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Only once, in Rev. 1:10, was in the early Christian ages used to denote the first day of the week, which commemorated the Lord’s resurrection. There is every reason to conclude that John thus used the"}, {"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_822b5a119a23", "title": "Easton: Day’s journey", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The usual length of a day’s journey in the East, on camel or horseback, in six or eight hours, is about 25 or 30 miles. The “three days’ journey” mentioned in Ex. 3:18 is simply a journey which would "}, {"id": "card_ref_rda_vitamin_c", "title": "Vitamin c — recommended daily allowance", "shelf": "nutrition", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Vitamin c — recommended dietary allowance by life stage: child 9–13 45 mg/day, adolescent 14–18 male 75 mg/day, adolescent 14–18 female 65 mg/day, adult male 90 mg/day, adult female 75 mg/day, pregnan"}, {"id": "card_n_18556a9035c6", "title": "Easton: Birth-day", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The observance of birth-days was common in early times (Job 1:4, 13, 18). They were specially celebrated in the land of Egypt (Gen. 40:20). There is no recorded instance in Scripture of the celebratio"}, {"id": "card_n_39d02442bb0b", "title": "Easton: Dew", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“There is no dew properly so called in Palestine, for there is no moisture in the hot summer air to be chilled into dew-drops by the coldness of the night. From May till October rain is unknown, the s"}, {"id": "card_ref_rda_calcium", "title": "Calcium — recommended daily allowance", "shelf": "nutrition", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Calcium — recommended dietary allowance by life stage: child 9–13 1300 mg/day, adolescent 14–18 1300 mg/day, adult 19–50 1000 mg/day, adult male 51–70 1000 mg/day, adult female 51–70 1200 mg/day, adul"}, {"id": "card_src_taxon_143529", "title": "Phelsuma laticauda — broad-tailed day gecko", "shelf": "taxonomy", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "broad-tailed day gecko (Phelsuma laticauda) — a species. In the tree of life under Phelsuma. Also known as: broad-tailed day gecko, gold dust day gecko."}, {"id": "card_n_ea8d5a535544", "title": "Easton: Solemn meeting", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 1:13), the convocation on the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles (Lev. 23:36; Num. 29:35, R.V., “solemn assembly;” marg., “closing festival”). It is the name given also to the convocation he"}, {"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_bf566768d509", "title": "Easton: Sabbath", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. verb shabbath, meaning “to rest from labour”), the day of rest. It is first mentioned as having been instituted in Paradise, when man was in innocence (Gen. 2:2). “The sabbath was made for man,”"}, {"id": "card_n_169ab095061e", "title": "Easton: Kibroth-hattaavah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The graves of the longing or of lust, one of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness. It was probably in the Wady Murrah, and has been identified with the Erweis el-Ebeirig, where the remains"}, {"id": "card_n_03384119f988", "title": "Easton: Evening", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The period following sunset with which the Jewish day began (Gen. 1:5; Mark 13:35). The Hebrews reckoned two evenings of each day, as appears from Ex. 16:12: 30:8; 12:6 (marg.); Lev. 23:5 (marg. R.V.,"}, {"id": "card_n_f723578df001", "title": "Easton: Seventy weeks", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A prophetic period mentioned in Dan. 9:24, and usually interpreted on the “year-day” theory, i.e., reckoning each day for a year. This period will thus represent 490 years. This is regarded as the per"}, {"id": "card_n_aac8e92a9281", "title": "Easton: Pur, Purim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A lot, lots, a festival instituted by the Jews (Esther 9:24-32) in ironical commemoration of Haman’s consultation of the Pur (a Persian word), for the purpose of ascertaining the auspicious day for ex"}]}