Bible dictionaries

Ensue

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

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Ensue - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

ENSU'E, v.t. [L. sequor, to follow. See Seek.]

To follow; to pursue.

Seek peace,and ensue it. l Pet.3.

[In this sense, it is obsolete.]

ENSU'E, v.i. To follow as a consequence of premises; as, from these facts or this evidence, the argument will ensue.

1. To follow in a train of events or course of time; to succeed; to come after. He spoke and silence ensued. We say, the ensuing age or years;the ensuing events.

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)

en-su':

Synonymous with "to pursue," "ensue" is found in 1Pe 3:11 the King James Version as a translation of dioko, "to follow after," "to pursue."

Also in /APC Judith 9:5, "such as ensued after" (ta metepeita, "the things that follow").

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

The article in ISBE 1915