{"query": "Easton: Wailing-place, Jews’", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_21b324ea833f", "title": "Easton: Wailing-place, Jews’", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A section of the western wall of the temple area, where the Jews assemble every Friday afternoon to bewail their desolate condition (Ps. 79:1, 4, 5). The stones in this part of the wall are of great s"}, {"id": "card_c_59972fe02c6a", "title": "Easton: Wailing-place, Jews’ ↔ Easton: Wine", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_concept_u_z — a structural sibling link restored from 1.0's nesting (re-verified same section live). Connects the map so no card is left orphaned."}, {"id": "card_c_a0c8a27c6c1a", "title": "Easton: Wailing-place, Jews’ ↔ Easton: Wise men", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_concept_u_z — a structural sibling link restored from 1.0's nesting (re-verified same section live). Connects the map so no card is left orphaned."}, {"id": "card_src_word_wailing_wall", "title": "wailing wall", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "wailing wall: (noun) a wall in Jerusalem; sacred to Jews as a place of prayer and lamentation; its stones are believed to have formed part of the Temple of Solomon"}, {"id": "card_n_e06f3c060113", "title": "Easton: Hinnom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A deep, narrow ravine separating Mount Zion from the so-called “Hill of Evil Counsel.” It took its name from “some ancient hero, the son of Hinnom.” It is first mentioned in Josh. 15:8. It had been th"}, {"id": "card_n_f1d1a72d85aa", "title": "Easton: Claudius", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lame. (1.) The fourth Roman emperor. He succeeded Caligula (A.D. 41). Though in general he treated the Jews, especially those in Asia and Egypt, with great indulgence, yet about the middle of his reig"}, {"id": "card_n_faea09fdb08c", "title": "Easton: Cyrene", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A city (now Tripoli) in Upper Libya, North Africa, founded by a colony of Greeks (B.C. 630). It contained latterly a large number of Jews, who were introduced into the city by Ptolemy, the son of Lagu"}, {"id": "card_n_d7529710ccc0", "title": "Easton: Sepharad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Obad. 1:20), some locality unknown. The modern Jews think that Spain is meant, and hence they designate the Spanish Jews “Sephardim,” as they do the German Jews by the name “Ashkenazim,” because the "}, {"id": "card_n_e3616f871091", "title": "Easton: Maccabees, Books of the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There were originally five books of the Maccabees. The first contains a history of the war of independence, commencing (B.C. 175) in a series of patriotic struggles against the tyranny of Antiochus Ep"}, {"id": "card_n_8ef7418cf050", "title": "Easton: Arimathea", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A “city of the Jews” (Luke 23:51), the birth-place of Joseph in whose sepulchre our Lord was laid (Matt. 27:57, 60; John 19:38). It is probably the same place as Ramathaim in Ephraim, and the birth-pl"}, {"id": "card_n_7df96180ca83", "title": "Easton: Felix", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Happy, the Roman procurator of Judea before whom Paul “reasoned” (Acts 24:25). He appears to have expected a bribe from Paul, and therefore had several interviews with him. The “worthy deeds” referred"}, {"id": "card_n_1a8808bd0681", "title": "Easton: Publican", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who farmed the taxes (e.g., Zacchaeus, Luke 19:2) to be levied from a town or district, and thus undertook to pay to the supreme government a certain amount. In order to collect the taxes, the pub"}, {"id": "card_n_7342226e49b7", "title": "Easton: Hanes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A place in Egypt mentioned only in Isa. 30:4 in connection with a reproof given to the Jews for trusting in Egypt. It was considered the same as Tahpanhes, a fortified town on the eastern frontier, bu"}, {"id": "card_n_5b73aa3dee52", "title": "Easton: Washing", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Mark 7:1-9). The Jews, like other Orientals, used their fingers when taking food, and therefore washed their hands before doing so, for the sake of cleanliness. Here the reference is to the ablutions"}, {"id": "card_n_e5a2dbc040bc", "title": "Easton: Congregation, mount of the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 14:13), has been supposed to refer to the place where God promised to meet with his people (Ex. 25:22; 29:42, 43) i.e., the mount of the Divine presence, Mount Zion. But here the king of Babylon"}, {"id": "card_n_88c46b589551", "title": "Easton: Romans, Epistle to the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This epistle was probably written at Corinth. Phoebe (Rom. 16:1) of Cenchrea conveyed it to Rome, and Gaius of Corinth entertained the apostle at the time of his writing it (16:23; 1 Cor. 1:14), and E"}, {"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_n_ab8da962378c", "title": "Easton: Tahapanes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Tahpanhes=Tehaphnehes, (called “Daphne” by the Greeks, now Tell Defenneh), an ancient Egyptian city, on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, about 16 miles from Pelusium. The Jews from Jerusalem fled to t"}, {"id": "card_n_e89b44dd68dc", "title": "Easton: Anathoth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name of one of the cities of refuge, in the tribe of Benjamin (Josh. 21:18). The Jews, as a rule, did not change the names of the towns they found in Palestine; hence this town may be regarded as "}, {"id": "card_n_0126d4715255", "title": "Easton: Aceldama", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name which the Jews gave in their proper tongue, i.e., in Aramaic, to the field which was purchased with the money which had been given to the betrayer of our Lord. The word means “field of blood."}]}