Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Recently, while doing some house sitting for my daughter Beth, I discovered the Noah Webster 1828 Dictionary that my husband and I gave our son-in-law Todd a few years ago for his birthday. Funny how different this dictionary is from an updated version that we have at our house. It makes me realize how so many people, especially Christians, can live such licentious lifestyles. Just like the other versions of the Bible have taken out many of the words that are in the King James Bible, the dictionaries, when updated took out and even changed some of the meanings that were intended by God for us to read in order to know the full meaning, especially when it comes to practical living. I feel that the devil through subtlety has come into our homes and stolen the truth from under our noses. 

I have taken the liberty to look up a few words that I feel  are very necessary in the age which we live. All around me I see so many departing from the faith and from the lifestyle that the Lord Jesus Christ and the Apostles penned down in our beloved Bible. I have also added some scriptures that it seems many Christians have taken lightly due to either reading a different version of the Bible or not understanding the impact of what the scriptures teach by their definitions.

Definitions according to Noah Webster 1828 Dictionary

     Doctrine
     1)  In a general sense, whatever is taught. Hence, a principle or                position in any science, whatever is laid down as true by an instructor or master. “The doctrines of the gospel are the principles or truth taught by Christ and his Apostles. The doctrines of Plato are the principles which he taught. Hence, a doctrine may be true or false; it may be mere tenet or opinion.

2) The act of teaching.- “He taught them many things by parables, and said to them in his doctrine…Mark 4

3) Learning; knowledge -“Whom shall he make to understand doctrine?” Isaiah 27

4) The truths of the gospel in general. “That they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.” Titus 2

5) Instruction and confirmation in the truths of the gospels.

Ephesians 5:3-4

3) But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

4) Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

I Thessalonians 4:1

1)  Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

2) For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus

3) For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

4) That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

5) Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

6) That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forwarned you and testified.

7) For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

8) He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given to us his Holy Spirit.

Fornication
1) The incontinence or lewdness of unmarried persons, male or female; also, the criminal conversation of a married man with an unmarried woman.
2) Adultery  Matthew 5
3) Incest  1 Corithians 5
4) Idolatry; a forsaking of the true God, and worshipping of idols  2 Chronicles 21; Revelation 19

Fornicator
1) An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal conversation with the other sex; also, a married man who has sexual commerce with an unmarried woman. (See adultery)
2) A lewd person
3) An idolater

Lewd

1) Given to the unlawful indulgence of lust; addicted to fornication or adultery; dissolute; lustful

2) Proceeding from unlawful lust; a lewd action

3) Wicked, vile, profligate, licentious

Incontinency

1) Want of restraint of the passions or appetites; free or uncontrolled indulgence of the passions or appetites, as of anger.

2) Want of restraint of the sexual appetite; free or illegal indulgence of lust; lewdness; used of either sex, but appropriately of the male sex. Incontinence in the men is the same as unchastity in women.

Concupiscence

1) To covet or lust after

2)  Lust; unlawful or irregular desire of sexual pleasure. In a more general sense, the coveting of carnal things, or an irregular appetite for worldly good; inclination for unlawful enjoyments.

Malice

1) Extreme enmity of heart, or malevolence; a disposition to injure others without cause, from mere personal gratification or from a spirit of revenge; unprovoked malignity or spite.

2) To regard with extreme ill will.

Perverse

1) Literally, turned aside; hence, distorted from the right.

2) Obstinate in the wrong; disposed to be contrary; stubborn; untractable.

3) Cross; petulant; peevish; disposed to cross and vex.

Colossians 4:6

Let your speech be always with grace seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Grace

1) Favor; good will; kindness; disposition to oblige another; as a grant made as an act of grace.

2) Appropriately, the free unmerited love and favor of God, the spring and source of all benefits men receive from him.

3) Favorable influence of God; divine influence or the influence of the spirit, in renewing the heart and restraining from sin.

4) The application of Christ’s righteousness to the sinner.

Titus 2:3-5

1) The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things.

2) That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children.

3)To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not     blasphemed.

Sober

1) Not mad or insane; not wild, visionary or heated with passion. Having the regular exercise of cool dispassionate reason.

2) Regular, calm, not under the influence of passion.

Discreet

Prudent; wise in avoiding errors of evil, and in selecting the best means to accomplish a purpose; circumspect; cautious; wary; not rash.

Chaste

1) Pure from all unlawful commerce of sexes. True to the marriage bed

2) Free from obscenity

3) In language, pure; genuine, uncorrupt; free from barbarous phrases, and from quaint, affected, extravagant expressions

     I Peter 3:1-4

1) Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

2) While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

3) Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

4) But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

Meek

1)Mild of temper; soft; gentle; not easily provoked or irritated; yielding; given to forbearance under injuries.

2)Appropriately, humble in an evangelical sense; submissive to the divine will; not proud; self sufficient or refractory; not peevish and apt to complain of divine dispensations.

*This is definitely something that I need to work on!