{"query": "Easton: Money", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_71d82ac3286f", "title": "Easton: Money", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of uncoined money the first notice we have is in the history of Abraham (Gen. 13:2; 20:16; 24:35). Next, this word is used in connection with the purchase of the cave of Machpelah (23:16), and again i"}, {"id": "card_n_46b0184d7dd3", "title": "Easton: Stater", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Greek word rendered “piece of money” (Matt. 17:27, A.V.; and “shekel” in R.V.). It was equal to two didrachmas (“tribute money,” 17:24), or four drachmas, and to about 2s. 6d. of our money. (See SHEKE"}, {"id": "card_src_book_46499", "title": "Honest Money — Arthur Isaac Fonda", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Honest Money, by Arthur Isaac Fonda. Subjects: Money; Paper money -- United States. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46499"}, {"id": "card_n_10609ac53d2c", "title": "Easton: Pound", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A weight. Heb. maneh, equal to 100 shekels (1 Kings 10:17; Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:71, 72). Gr. litra, equal to about 12 oz. avoirdupois (John 12:3; 19:39). (2.) A sum of money; the Gr. mna or mina (Lu"}, {"id": "card_n_6d7d74577f4e", "title": "Easton: Kesitah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gen. 33:19, R.V., marg., a Hebrew word, rendered, A.V., pl. “pieces of money,” marg., “lambs;” Josh. 24:32, “pieces of silver;” Job 42:11, “piece of money”). The kesitah was probably a piece of money"}, {"id": "card_n_9b0736f20d65", "title": "Easton: Money-changer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Matt. 21:12; Mark 11:15; John 2:15). Every Israelite from twenty years and upwards had to pay (Ex. 30:13-15) into the sacred treasury half a shekel every year as an offering to Jehovah, and that in t"}, {"id": "card_n_a67b94794cd8", "title": "Easton: Pieces", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1) of silver. In Ps. 68:30 denotes “fragments,” and not properly money. In 1 Sam. 2:36 (Heb. agorah), properly a “small sum” as wages, weighed rather than coined. Josh. 24:32 (Heb. kesitah, q.v.), su"}, {"id": "card_src_book_5962", "title": "Oh, Money! Money! A Novel — Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Oh, Money! Money! A Novel, by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter. Subjects: Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Love stories; New England -- Fiction; Impostors and imposture -- Fiction; Cousins --"}, {"id": "card_src_word_amount_of_money", "title": "amount of money", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "amount of money: (noun) a quantity of money — syn: sum, sum of money, amount"}, {"id": "card_n_4a4852ad9a9e", "title": "Easton: Custom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A tax imposed by the Romans. The tax-gatherers were termed publicans (q.v.), who had their stations at the gates of cities, and in the public highways, and at the place set apart for that purpose, cal"}, {"id": "card_src_book_61086", "title": "Matthew on Money — Lawrence Keister", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Matthew on Money, by Lawrence Keister. Subjects: Money -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61086"}, {"id": "card_src_book_34823", "title": "The Value of Money — Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Value of Money, by Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson. Subjects: Money. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34823"}, {"id": "card_src_book_62642", "title": "War Prisoner Money and Medals — Guido Kisch", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "War Prisoner Money and Medals, by Guido Kisch. Subjects: Money; Numismatics; Prisoners of war; Medals; Coins. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62642"}, {"id": "card_n_112346515522", "title": "Easton: Treasury", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Matt. 27:6; Mark 12:41; John 8:20). It does not appear that there was a separate building so called. The name was given to the thirteen brazen chests, called “trumpets,” from the form of the opening "}, {"id": "card_src_book_66544", "title": "Tolstoy's interpretation of money and property — Milivoy S. (Milivoy Stoyan) Stanoyevich", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Tolstoy's interpretation of money and property, by Milivoy S. (Milivoy Stoyan) Stanoyevich. Subjects: Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910; Money; Property. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gu"}, {"id": "card_n_767d65b6fd86", "title": "Easton: Purse", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Gr. balantion, a bag (Luke 10:4; 22:35, 36). (2.) Gr. zone, properly a girdle (Matt. 10:9; Mark 6:8), a money-belt. As to our Lord’s sending forth his disciples without money in their purses, the"}, {"id": "card_src_book_35120", "title": "Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted — Chester Arthur Phillips", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted, by Chester Arthur Phillips. Subjects: Money; Banks and banking; Banks and banking -- United States. Read the full text (public domain): https://www."}, {"id": "card_n_42889a4da9b2", "title": "Easton: Penny", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. denarion), a silver coin of the value of about 7 1/2d. or 8d. of our present money. It is thus rendered in the New Testament, and is more frequently mentioned than any other coin (Matt. 18:28; 20"}, {"id": "card_src_word_gresham_s_law", "title": "gresham's law", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "gresham's law: (noun) (economics) the principle that when two kinds of money having the same denominational value are in circulation the intrinsically more valuable money will be hoarded and the money"}, {"id": "card_src_book_40429", "title": "Robinson Crusoe's Money; or, The Remarkable Financial Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Remote Island Community — David Ames Wells", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Robinson Crusoe's Money; or, The Remarkable Financial Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Remote Island Community, by David Ames Wells. Subjects: Money; Currency question -- United States. Read the full tex"}]}