Bible dictionaries

Scythian

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

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Scythian - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

The Scythians consisted of "all the pastoral tribes who dwelt to the north of the Black Sea and the Caspian, and were scattered far away toward the east. Of this vast country but little was anciently known. Its modern representative is Russia, which, to a great extent, includes the same territories." They were the descendants of Japheth (Gen. 9:27). It appears that in apostolic times there were some of this people that embraced Christianity (Col. 3:11).

Scythian - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

SCYTH'IAN, a. Pretaining to Scythia, a name given to the northern part of Asia, and Europe adjoining to Asia.

SCYTH'IAN, n. [See Scot.] A native of Scythia.

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

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

occurs in (Colossians 3:11) as a generalized term for rude, ignorant, degraded. The name often included all the nomadic tribes, who dwelt mostly on the north of the Black and the Caspian Sea, stretching thence indefinitely into inner Asia, and were regarded by the ancients as standing extremely low In point of intelligence and civilization.

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith