Bible dictionaries
Dishonesty
What Bible dictionaries say about “Dishonesty”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Dishonesty - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
DISHONESTY, n. Dizonesty.
1. Want of probity, or integrity in principle; faithlessness; a disposition to cheat or defraud, or to deceive and betray; applied to persons.
2. Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; treachery; any deviation from probity or integrity; applied to acts.
3. Unchastity; incontinence; lewdness.
4. Deceit; wickedness; shame. 2 Cor 4.
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)
dis-on'-es-ti: Only in 2Co 4:2, the King James Version rendering of Greek aischune; the King James Version elsewhere and the Revised Version (British and American) uniformly, "shame."
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915