Bible dictionaries
Gorgeous
What Bible dictionaries say about “Gorgeous”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Gorgeous - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
GOR'GEOUS, a. Showy; fine; splendid; glittering with gay colors.
With gorgeous wings, the marks of sovereign sway.
A gorgeous robe. Luke 23.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Gorgeously - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
GOR'GEOUSLY, adv. With showy magnificence; splendidly; finely. The prince was gorgeously arrayed.
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)
gor'-jus, gor'-jus-li (mikhlol; lampros): Mikhlol occurs twice in the Old Testament, translated in the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) "most gorgeously" (Eze 23:12); in Eze 38:4, the King James Version translates "all sorts" (of armor), the Revised Version (British and American) "clothed in full armor." Lampros ("shining," "bright"), is only once translated "gorgeous" (Lu 23:11); "Herod .... arrayed him in a gorgeous robe," the Revised Version (British and American) "gorgeous apparel." We have also in Lu 7:25, "They that are gorgeously appareled ([~endoxos, "splendid," "glorious") .... are in kings' courts." They were scarcely to be looked for among the prophets, or in the new community of Jesus.
W. L. Walker
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915