Bible dictionaries
Sometime
What Bible dictionaries say about “Sometime”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Sometime - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
SOMETIME, adv. [some and time.]
1. Once; formerly. That fair and warlike form, in which the majesty of buried Denmark did sometime march.
2. At one time or other hereafter. [Sometime is really a compound noun, and at is understood before it; at some time.]
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)
sum'-tim: In modern English means "occasionally," and is so used in Sirach 37:14 for eniote. Otherwise the word means "at some past time," and is the translation of pote. the Revised Version (British and American) changes to "aforetime" in The Wisdom of Solomon 5:3; 1Pe 3:20; to "once" in Eph 2:13; 5:8; to "in time past" in Col 1:21; while in Col 3:7 the English Revised Version has "aforetime," the American Standard Revised Version "once." the King James Version does not distinguish between "sometime" and "sometimes."
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915