Bible dictionaries
Unequal
What Bible dictionaries say about “Unequal”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Unequal - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
UNE'QUAL, a. [L. inaequalis.]
1. Not equal; not even; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, _c.; as men of unequal stature; houses of unequal dimensions.
2. Not equal in strength, talents, acquirements, _c.; inferior.
3. Not equal in age or station; inferior.
4. Insufficient; inadequate. His strength is unequal to the task.
5. Partial; unjust; not furnishing equivalents to the different parties; as an unequal peace; an unequal bargain.
6. Disproportioned; ill matched.
Against unequal arms to fight in pain.
7. Not regular; not uniform; as unequal pulsations.
8. In botany, having the parts not corresponding in size, but in proportion only, as a corol; rugged, not even or smooth, as the surface of a leaf or stem.
An unequal leaf, is when the two halves separated by the mid-rib, are unequal in dimensions, and their bases not parallel; called also an oblique leaf.
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)
un-e'-kwal: Eze 18:25,29 for lo' thakhan, "not weighed," "illogical." "Unequally" in 2Co 6:14, in the phrase "unequally yoked," heterozugeo, is used of the yoking together of two animals of different kinds (compare the Septuagint of Le 19:19).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915