Bible dictionaries
Goodliness
What Bible dictionaries say about “Goodliness”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Goodliness - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
GOOD'LINESS, n. [from goodly.] Beauty of form; grace; elegance.
Her goodliness was full of harmony to his eyes.
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)
good'-li-nes: This word is found in Isa 40:6 as the translation of checedh, commonly translated "mercy," "kindness," etc.: "All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness (beauty, charm, comeliness) thereof is as the flower of the field." The rendering is retained by the English Revised Version and the American Standard Revised Version as appropriate in this place; checedh is frequently translated goodness.' In Isa 40:6 Septuagint has doxa, "glory" (so also 1Pe 1:24), which also fitly expresses the idea of the passage.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915