Bible dictionaries
Concourse
What Bible dictionaries say about “Concourse”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Concourse - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
CONCOURSE, n. [L., to run together, to run.]
1. A moving, flowing or running together; confluence; as a fortuitous concourse of atoms; a concourse of men.
2. A meeting; an assembly of men; an assemblage of things; a collection formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving and meeting in one place. Acts 19.
3. The place or point of meeting, or a meeting; the point of junction of two bodies.
The drop will begin to move towards the concourse of the glasses. [This application is unusual.]
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)
kon'-kors (hamah, "to hum," "to make a noise"; sustrophe, "a turning" or "twisting together"): Hamah, usually translated by some word signifying "sound" is rendered "concourse" in Pr 1:21 (perhaps from the noise made by people thronging and talking together; compare 1Ki 1:41, "uproar"), "She (wisdom) crieth in the chief place of concourse," the Revised Version, margin, Hebrew "at the head of the noisy (streets)"; sustrophe is translated "concourse" (Ac 19:40), a riotous crowd. Compare Judith 10:18.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915