Bible dictionaries

Anon

What Bible dictionaries say about “Anon”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Anon - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

ANON', adv.

1. Quickly; without intermission: soon; immediately.

The same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it. Mat 13.

2. Sometimes; now and then; at other times; accompanied with ever, ever and anon.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

a-non' (eutheos, euthus): In the King James Version of Mr 1:30; Mt 13:20, for "straightway" of the Revised Version (British and American), i.e. "without delay," "immediately."

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915