Bible dictionaries

Urbane

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

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Urbane - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

UR'BANE, a. [L. urbanus, from urbs, a city.] Civil; courteous in manners; polite.

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)

ur'-ban, -ban'.

See URBANUS.

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

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

(of the city; polite), the Greek form of the Latin Urbanus, as it is given in the Revised Version. He was a Christian disciple who is in the long list of those whom St. Paul salutes in writing to Rome. (Romans 16:9) (A.D. 55.)

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

The article in Smith