Bible dictionaries

Twelve

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

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Twelve - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

TWELVE, a. twelv. The sum of two and ten; twice six; a dozen. Twelve men compose a petty jury.

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)

twelv (shenem `asar; dodeka).

See APOSTLE; NUMBER.

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

The article in ISBE 1915