Bible dictionaries

Hen

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

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Hen - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

Common in later times among the Jews in Palestine (Matt. 23:37; Luke 13:34). It is noticeable that this familiar bird is only mentioned in these passages in connection with our Lord's lamentation over the impenitence of Jerusalem.

Hen - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

HEN, n. The female of any kind of fowl; but it is particularly applied to the female of the domestic fowl of the gallinaceous kind, or as sometimes called, the barn-door fowl.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

The hen is nowhere noticed in the Bible except in (Matthew 23:37; Luke 13:34) That a bird so common in Palestine should receive such slight notice is certainly peculiar.

Additional entry

(rest), probably a son of Zephaniah, and apparently the same who is called JOSIAH in (Zechariah 6:10)

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith