Bible dictionaries

Conform; Conformable

What Bible dictionaries say about “Conform; Conformable”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Conformable - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

CONFORMABLE, a.

1. Correspondent; having the same or similar external form, or shape; like; resembling; as an edifice conformable to a model or draft.

2. Having the same or similar manners, opinions or moral qualities.

The Gentiles were not made conformable to the Jews, in that which was to cease at the coming of Christ.

3. Agreeable; suitable; consistent; as, nature is conformable to herself.

4. Compliant; ready to follow directions; submissive; obsequious; peaceable; disposed to obey.

I have been to you a true and humble wife, At all time to your will conformable.

It is generally followed by to, but good writers have used with. In its etymological sense, that may be conformed, capable of being conformed, it seems not to be used.

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)

kon-form', kon-form'-a-b'-l (summorphoo "to become or be like," or "of the same form"): Indicating an inner change of nature, working into the outward life (Ro 8:29; Php 3:10,21); while suschematizo, "fashioned according to" (Ro 12:21 the Revised Version (British and American), the King James Version. "conformed"), refers to that which is external.

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

The article in ISBE 1915