Bible dictionaries
Painting
What Bible dictionaries say about “Painting”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Painting - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
PA'INTING, ppr. Representing in colors; laying on colors.
PA'INTING, n. The art of forming figures or resembling objects in colors on canvas or other material, or the art of representing to the eye by means of figures and colors, any object of sight, and sometimes the emotions of the mind.
1. A picture; a likeness or resemblance in colors.
2. Colors laid on.
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)
pan'-ting.
See CRAFTS, II, 12.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915