Engine
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
(2): ( n.) (Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill.
(3): ( v. t.) To equip with an engine; - said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.
(4): ( n.) A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect.
(5): ( n.) Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture.
(6): ( v. t.) (Pronounced, in this sense, /////.) To rack; to torture.
(7): ( v. t.) To assault with an engine.
King James Dictionary [2]
EN'GINE, n. L. ingenium.
1. In mechanics, a compound machine, or artificial instrument, composed of different parts, and intended to produce some effect by the help of the mechanical powers as a pump, a windlas, a capstan, a fire engine, a steam engine. 2. A military machine as a battering ram, &c. 3. Any instrument that by which any effect is produced. An arrow, a sword, a musket is an engine of death. 4. A machine for throwing water to extinguish fire. 5. Means any thing used to effect a purpose. 6. An agent for another usually in an sense.
Smith's Bible Dictionary [3]
Engine. A term applied exclusively to military affairs in the Bible. The engines to which the term is applied in 2 Chronicles 26:15, were designed to propel various missiles from the walls of the besieged town. One, with which the Hebrews were acquainted, was the battering-ram, described in Ezekiel 26:9 and still more precisely in Ezekiel 4:2; Ezekiel 21:22.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [4]
Engine . See Fortification, etc., § 6 .
Holman Bible Dictionary [5]
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [6]
Copyright StatementThese files are public domain. Bibliography InformationMcClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Engine'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/e/engine.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [7]
en´jin ( 2 Chronicles 26:15; Ezekiel 26:9; 1 Macc 6:51; 13:43 f). See Siege .
References
- ↑ Engine from Webster's Dictionary
- ↑ Engine from King James Dictionary
- ↑ Engine from Smith's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Engine from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
- ↑ Engine from Holman Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Engine from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
- ↑ Engine from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
