Honesty Honest
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [1]
HONEST, Honesty . In 2Es 16:49 ‘honest’ has the meaning of ‘chaste.’ Elsewhere it means either ‘honourable’ or ‘becoming.’ For the meaning ‘honourable’ compare Ruth 1:22 Cov. ‘There was a kinsman also … whose name was Boos, which was an honest man’; and, for ‘becoming,’ Isaiah 52:1 Cov. ‘Put on thine honest rayment, O Jerusalem, thou citle of the holy one.’
‘Honesty’ in 1 Timothy 2:2 , its only occurrence, means ‘seemliness’ (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘gravity’).
Morrish Bible Dictionary [2]
These words in the N.T. are not confined to trustworthiness, as the words are now commonly understood; but extend to any honourable conduct. Luke 8:15; Romans 12:17; 2 Corinthians 8:21; 2 Corinthians 13:7; Philippians 4:8; 1 Timothy 2:2; Hebrews 13:18; 1 Peter 2:12 .
