Bible dictionaries
Untoward
What Bible dictionaries say about “Untoward”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Untoward - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
UNTO'WARD, a.
1. Froward; perverse; refractory; not easily guided or taught. Acts 2.
2. Awkward; ungraceful; as untoward words.
3. Inconvenient; troublesome; unmanageable; as an untoward vow.
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-to'-erd, un-tord' (skolios): Appears only in Ac 2:40, the King James Version "Save yourselves from this untoward generation." It means "perverse," "willful," "crooked," and is so translated in Revised Version: "this crooked generation" (apo tes geneas tes skolias tautes). the King James Version headings to Isa 28 and Ho 6 have "untowardness." This now obsolete term probably derived its orgin from the idea of the heart that was not inclined toward the divine will and teaching. Hence, "not-toward," or "untoward."
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915