Bible dictionaries

Drought

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

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Drought - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

From the middle of May to about the middle of August the land of Palestine is dry. It is then the "drought of summer" (Gen. 31:40; Ps. 32:4), and the land suffers (Deut. 28:23: Ps. 102:4), vegetation being preserved only by the dews (Hag. 1:11). (See [167]DEW.)

Drought - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

DROUGHT. [See Drouth.]

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)

drout. See FAMINE.

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

The article in ISBE 1915