Bible dictionaries
Descry
What Bible dictionaries say about “Descry”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Descry - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
DESCRY, v.t.
1. To espy; to explore; to examine by observation.
The house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. Judg 1.
2. To detect; to find out; to discover any thing concealed.
3. To see; to behold; to have a sight of from a distance; as, the seamen descried land.
4. To give notice of something suddenly discovered.
DESCRY, n. Discovery; thing descovered.
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)
de-skri': This word like "describe" came into the English through the French descrire (Latin, describere); it occurs only in the King James Version of Jud 1:23: "And the house of Joseph sent to Bethel." tur the verb thus translated, signifies "to explore" or "examine," and the Revised Version (British and American) correctly renders "sent to spy out."
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915