Bible dictionaries

Redound

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

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Redound - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

REDOUND, v.i. [L. redundo; red, re, and undo, to rise or swell, as waves.]

1. To be sent, rolled or driven back.

The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung.

2. To conduce in the consequence; to contribute; to result.

The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God the author of it.

3. To proceed in the consequence or effect; to result.

There will no small use redound from them to that manufactures.

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)

re-dound' (from re-, "back," and undare, "to surge as a wave"): To be sent back as a reaction, to overflow; occurs only as the translation of perisseuo, "to be over and above," "to superabound" (frequent in the New Testament); in 2Co 4:15, "might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God," the Revised Version (British and American) "may cause the thanksgiving to abound."

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

The article in ISBE 1915