{"query": "Easton: Heathen", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_f00240775d03", "title": "Easton: Drink-offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consisted of wine (Num. 15:5; Hos. 9:4) poured around the altar (Ex. 30:9). Joined with meat-offerings (Num. 6:15, 17; 2 Kings 16:13; Joel 1:9, 13; 2:14), presented daily (Ex. 29:40), on the Sabbath ("}, {"id": "card_n_df68c9d261cd", "title": "Easton: Idolatry", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Image-worship or divine honour paid to any created object. Paul describes the origin of idolatry in Rom. 1:21-25: men forsook God, and sank into ignorance and moral corruption (1:28). The forms of ido"}, {"id": "card_n_eeb3273afc89", "title": "Easton: Jezebel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Chaste, the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of the Zidonians, and the wife of Ahab, the king of Israel (1 Kings 16:31). This was the “first time that a king of Israel had allied himself by marriage with"}, {"id": "card_n_2c8ff9de8e8c", "title": "Easton: Garlands", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Acts 14:13). In heathen sacrifices the victims were adorned with fillets and garlands made of wool, with leaves and flowers interwoven. The altar and the priests and attendants were also in like mann"}, {"id": "card_n_7cb72e89c54b", "title": "Easton: Forces", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of the Gentiles (Isa. 60:5, 11; R.V., “the wealth of the nations”) denotes the wealth of the heathen. The whole passage means that the wealth of the Gentile world should be consecrated to the service "}, {"id": "card_n_89403baca699", "title": "Easton: Mercurius", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hermes (i.e., “the speaker”) of the Greeks (Acts 14:12), a heathen God represented as the constant attendant of Jupiter, and the god of eloquence. The inhabitants of Lystra took Paul for this god "}, {"id": "card_src_word_heathen", "title": "heathen", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "heathen: (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god — syn: pagan, gentile, infidel · (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam — syn: heathenish, pagan, ethnic"}, {"id": "card_n_90277a772ad1", "title": "Easton: Physician", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Asa, afflicted with some bodily malady, “sought not to the Lord but to the physicians” (2 Chr. 16:12). The “physicians” were those who “practised heathen arts of magic, disavowing recognized methods o"}, {"id": "card_n_90060f4405b0", "title": "Easton: Concision", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. katatome; i.e., “mutilation”), a term used by Paul contemptuously of those who were zealots for circumcision (Phil. 3:2). Instead of the warning, “Beware of the circumcision” (peritome) i.e., of "}, {"id": "card_src_book_31676", "title": "Heathen Master Filcsik — Kálmán Mikszáth", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heathen Master Filcsik, by Kálmán Mikszáth. Subjects: Hungarian fiction -- Translations into English. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31676"}, {"id": "card_n_89a43780807f", "title": "Easton: Greek", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Found only in the New Testament, where a distinction is observed between “Greek” and “Grecian” (q.v.). The former is (1) a Greek by race (Acts 16:1-3; 18:17; Rom. 1:14), or (2) a Gentile as opposed to"}, {"id": "card_n_d9ce8058d054", "title": "Easton: Witchcraft", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 Sam. 15:23; 2 Kings 9:22; 2 Chr. 33:6; Micah 5:12; Nahum 3:4; Gal. 5:20). In the popular sense of the word no mention is made either of witches or of witchcraft in Scripture. The “witch of En-dor” "}, {"id": "card_src_book_12818", "title": "Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers — Elizabeth Wheeler Andrew", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers, by Elizabeth Wheeler Andrew. Subjects: Prostitution -- China -- Hong Kong. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12818"}, {"id": "card_n_f816e9c29cca", "title": "Easton: Conversion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The turning of a sinner to God (Acts 15:3). In a general sense the heathen are said to be “converted” when they abandon heathenism and embrace the Christian faith; and in a more special sense men are "}, {"id": "card_n_4d974cdf43bd", "title": "Easton: Gaius", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A Macedonian, Paul’s fellow-traveller, and his host at Corinth when he wrote his Epistle to the Romans (16:23). He with his household were baptized by Paul (1 Cor. 1:14). During a heathen outbrea"}, {"id": "card_src_book_34170", "title": "Heathen mythology, Illustrated by extracts from the most celebrated writers, both ancient and modern — Various", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heathen mythology, Illustrated by extracts from the most celebrated writers, both ancient and modern, by Various. Subjects: Legends; Mythology. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenber"}, {"id": "card_src_book_76362", "title": "Africana; or, the heart of heathen Africa, Volume 1 (of 2) — Duff Macdonald", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Africana; or, the heart of heathen Africa, Volume 1 (of 2), by Duff Macdonald. Subjects: Missions -- Africa, East; Africa, East -- Social life and customs. Read the full text (public domain): https://"}, {"id": "card_src_book_76363", "title": "Africana; or, the heart of heathen Africa, Volume 2 (of 2) — Duff Macdonald", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Africana; or, the heart of heathen Africa, Volume 2 (of 2), by Duff Macdonald. Subjects: Missions -- Africa, East; Africa, East -- Social life and customs. Read the full text (public domain): https://"}, {"id": "card_n_54ab3b8289d7", "title": "Easton: Jonah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A dove, the son of Amittai of Gath-hepher. He was a prophet of Israel, and predicted the restoration of the ancient boundaries (2 Kings 14:25-27) of the kingdom. He exercised his ministry very early i"}]}