{"query": "Easton: Lamentations, Book of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_2e6ce5fca91a", "title": "Easton: Lamentations, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called in the Hebrew canon ’Ekhah, meaning “How,” being the formula for the commencement of a song of wailing. It is the first word of the book (see 2 Sam. 1:19-27). The LXX. adopted the name rendered"}, {"id": "card_c_6c1cc17ed83e", "title": "Easton: Lamentations, Book of references Lamentations", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Lamentations. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_src_book_8329", "title": "The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 29: Lamentations of Jeremias The Challoner Revision", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 29: Lamentations of Jeremias The Challoner Revision. Subjects: Bible. Lamentations. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8329"}, {"id": "card_src_word_book_of_lamentations", "title": "book of lamentations", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "book of lamentations: (noun) an Old Testament book lamenting the desolation of Judah after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC; traditionally attributed to the prophet Jeremiah — syn: Lamentations"}, {"id": "card_src_book_39941", "title": "The Expositor's Bible: The Song of Solomon and the Lamentations of Jeremiah — Walter F. (Walter Frederic) Adeney", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Expositor's Bible: The Song of Solomon and the Lamentations of Jeremiah, by Walter F. (Walter Frederic) Adeney. Subjects: Bible. Song of Solomon -- Commentaries; Bible. Lamentations -- Commentarie"}, {"id": "card_src_word_lamentations", "title": "lamentations", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "lamentations: (noun) an Old Testament book lamenting the desolation of Judah after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC; traditionally attributed to the prophet Jeremiah — syn: Book of Lamentations"}, {"id": "card_n_d37649c81c16", "title": "Easton: Nehemiah, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The author of this book was no doubt Nehemiah himself. There are portions of the book written in the first person (ch. 1-7; 12:27-47, and 13). But there are also portions of it in which Nehemiah is sp"}, {"id": "card_c_8261e4a93fff", "title": "Easton: Bible references Lamentations", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Lamentations. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_3f25971a39e2", "title": "Easton: Chronicles, Books of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The two books were originally one. They bore the title in the Massoretic Hebrew Dibre hayyamim, i.e., “Acts of the Days.” This title was rendered by Jerome in his Latin version “Chronicon,” and hence "}, {"id": "card_n_915917bcd1fb", "title": "Easton: Revelation, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=The Apocalypse, the closing book and the only prophetical book of the New Testament canon. The author of this book was undoubtedly John the apostle. His name occurs four times in the book itself (1:1"}, {"id": "card_n_734bcd21be45", "title": "Easton: Joshua, The Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Contains a history of the Israelites from the death of Moses to that of Joshua. It consists of three parts: (1.) The history of the conquest of the land (1-12). (2.) The allotment of the land to the d"}, {"id": "card_n_addb6bb817e8", "title": "Easton: Proverbs, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A collection of moral and philosophical maxims of a wide range of subjects presented in a poetic form. This book sets forth the “philosophy of practical life. It is the sign to us that the Bible does "}, {"id": "card_n_ea0835f4fb1b", "title": "Easton: Jasher", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Upright. “The Book of Jasher,” rendered in the LXX. “the Book of the Upright One,” by the Vulgate “the Book of Just Ones,” was probably a kind of national sacred song-book, a collection of songs in pr"}, {"id": "card_n_5a0d951f0365", "title": "Easton: Ezra, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This book is the record of events occurring at the close of the Babylonian exile. It was at one time included in Nehemiah, the Jews regarding them as one volume. The two are still distinguished in the"}, {"id": "card_c_4fa9a310f589", "title": "Easton: Lamentations, Book of references Jeremiah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Jeremiah. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_d5e0dcfe0809", "title": "Easton: Lamentations, Book of references Psalms", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Psalms. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_b0a399e44fbf", "title": "Easton: Esther, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The authorship of this book is unknown. It must have been obviously written after the death of Ahasuerus (the Xerxes of the Greeks), which took place B.C. 465. The minute and particular account also g"}, {"id": "card_n_2acf4e5828ab", "title": "Easton: Ruth The Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was originally a part of the Book of Judges, but it now forms one of the twenty-four separate books of the Hebrew Bible. The history it contains refers to a period perhaps about one hundred and twenty"}, {"id": "card_n_fdff2a158d3f", "title": "Easton: Numbers, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The fourth of the books of the Pentateuch, called in the Hebrew be-midbar, i.e., “in the wilderness.” In the LXX. version it is called “Numbers,” and this name is now the usual title of the book. It i"}, {"id": "card_n_d064b0d2110e", "title": "Easton: Shushan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A lily, the Susa of Greek and Roman writers, once the capital of Elam. It lay in the uplands of Susiana, on the east of the Tigris, about 150 miles to the north of the head of the Persian Gulf. It is "}]}