Bible dictionaries

Chambering

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

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Chambering - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

(Rom. 13:13), wantonness, impurity.

Chambering - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

CHAMBERING,

CHAMBERING, n. Wanton, lewd, immodest behavior. Rom 13.

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)

cham'-ber-ing: Illicit intercourse; the rendering in English Versions of the Bible since Tyndale of koitias (literally "beds," Ro 13:13). The Greek usage is paralleled in classic authors and the Septuagint; like the English participle, it denotes repeated or habitual acts. The word is not recorded elsewhere in English literature as verb or participle in this sense; in Othello, iii, 3, a chamberer is an intriguer, male wanton, in Byron, Werner, IV, 1, 404, a gallant or carpet knight, and in Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 766, a concubine.

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

The article in ISBE 1915