Bible dictionaries
Hundred
What Bible dictionaries say about “Hundred”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Hundred - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
HUND'RED, a. [L. centum.] Denoting the product of ten multiplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; as a hundred men.
HUND'RED, n. A collection, body or sum, consisting of ten times ten individuals or units; the number 100.
1. A division or part of a county in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families,or a hundred warriors, or a hundred manors. [But as the word denotes primarily a circuit or division, it is not certin that Alfred's divisions had any reference to that number.]
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)
hun'-dred (me'-ah; hekaton).
See NUMBER.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915