Bible dictionaries

Heartily

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

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Heartily - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

HE`ARTILY, adv. [from hearty.] From the heart; with all the heart; with sincerity; really.

I heartily forgive them.

1. With zeal; actively; vigorously. He heartily assisted the prince.

2. Eagerly; freely; largely; as, to eat heartily.

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)

har'-ti-li: Occurs (Col 3:23) as the translation of ek psuches, "out of the soul," "Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as unto the Lord (who sees the heart and recompenses "whatsoever good thing a man does") and not unto men" (however they, your masters according to the flesh, may regard it); the Revised Version (British and American) "work heartily," margin (Greek) "from the soul."

In 2 Macc 4:37, we have "Antiochus was heartily sorry," psuchikos ("from the soul").

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

The article in ISBE 1915