Bible dictionaries

Meteyard

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

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Meteyard - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

ME'TEYARD, n. A yard, staff or rod, used as a measure. [We now use yard.]

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)

met'-yard (middah, "a measure," Le 19:35): Has this meaning in the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American), but in the American Standard Revised Version, "measures of length."

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

The article in ISBE 1915