Bible dictionaries

Noon

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

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Noon - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

NOON, n. [ said to be from naw, that is up or ultimate, that limits, also nine. I has been supposed that the ninth hour, among the Romans, was the time of eating the chief meal; this hour was three o'clock, P.M. In Danish, none is an afternooning, a collation.]

1. The middle of the day; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock.

2. Dryden used the word for midnight. ""At the noon of night.""

NOON, a. Meridional.

How of the noon bell.

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

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Noonday - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

NOON'DAY, n. Mid-day; twelve o'clock in the day.

NOON'DAY, a. Pertaining to mid-day; meridional; as the noonday heat.

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)

noon, noon'-da (tsohorayim; mesembria): The word means light, splendor, brightness, and hence, the brightest part of the day (Ge 43:16,25; Ac 22:6).