Bible dictionaries
Banishment
What Bible dictionaries say about “Banishment”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Banishment - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
BAN'ISHMENT, n. The act of a prince or government, compelling a citizen to leave his country, either for a limited time or forever, as for some crime.
2. A voluntary forsaking of one's country upon oath, called abjuration. [This practice has now ceased in G.Britain.]
3. The state of being banished; exile.
4. The act of driving away or dispelling; as the banishment of care from the mind.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
ban'-ish-ment.
See PUNISHMENTS.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915