Bible dictionaries

Constant

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

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Constant - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

CONSTANT, a. [L.]

1. Fixed; firm; opposed to fluid.

To turn two fluid liquors into a constant body.

[In this sense, not used.]

2. Fixed; not varied; unchanged; permanent; immutable.

The worlds a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

3. Fixed or firm in mind, purpose, affection or principle; unshaken; unmoved; as a constant friend or lover.

4. Certain; steady; firmly adherent; with to; as a man constant to his purpose, or to his duties.

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

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Constantly - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

CONSTANTLY, adv. Firmly; steadily; invariably; continually; perseveringly.

Rhoda constantly affirmed that it was even so. Acts 12.

These things I will that thou affirm constantly. Titus 3.

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'-stant, kon'-stant-li: In 1Ch 28 (chazaq) meaning "firm," "strong." In Pr 21:28 the adverb ("constantly") of the King James Version is replaced in the American Standard Revised Version by "shall speak so as to endure," the English Revised Version "unchallenged." the Revised Version (British and American) gives "confidently" for the King James Version "constantly" in Ac 12:15; Tit 3:8.

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

The article in ISBE 1915