Person
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
for the meaning of which see Appearance , No. 2, is translated "person" or "persons" in Matthew 22:16; Mark 12:14; Luke 20:21; 2—Corinthians 1:11; 2—Corinthians 2:10; Galatians 2:6; Jude 1:16 , lit., "(admiring, or showing respect of, RV) persons."
a generic name for man, is translated "persons" in Revelation 11:13 , RV (AV, "men").
Hebrews 1:3Substance. Matthew 27:24 Philemon 1:12 1—Corinthians 5:13 2—Peter 2:5
King James Dictionary [2]
PERSON, n. per'sn. L. persona said to be compounded of per, through or by, and sonus, sound a Latin word signifying primarily a mask used by actors on the state.
1. An individual human being consisting of body and soul. We apply the word to living beings only, possessed of a rational nature the body when dead is not called a person. It is applied alike to a man, woman or child.
A person is a thinking intelligent being.
2. A man, woman or child, considered as opposed to things, or distinct from them.
A zeal for persons is far more easy to be perverted, than a zeal for things.
3. A human being, considered with respect to the living body or corporeal existence only. The form of her person is elegant.
You'll find her person difficult to gain.
The rebels maintained the fight for a small time, and for their persons showed no want of courage.
4. A human being, indefinitely one a man. Let a person's attainments be never so great, he should remember he is frail and imperfect. 5. A human being represented in dialogue, fiction, or on the state character. A player appears in the person of king Lear.
These tables, Cicero pronounced under the person of Crassus, were of more use and authority than all the books of the philosophers.
6. Character of office.
How different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a friend.
7. In grammar, the nominative to a verb the agent that performs or the patient that suffers any thing affirmed by a verb as, I write he is smitten she is beloved the rain descends in torrents. I, thou or you, he, she or it, are called the first, second and third persons. Hence we apply the word person to the termination or modified form of the verb used in connection with the persons as the first or the third person of the verb the verb is in the second person. 8. In law, an artificial person, is a corporation or body politic.
In person, by one's self with bodily presence not be representative.
The king in person visits all around.
Charles Buck Theological Dictionary [3]
An individual substance of a rational intelligent nature. Some have been offended at the term persons as applied to the Trinity, as unwarrantable. The term person, when applied to Deity, is certainly used in a sense somewhat different from that in which we apply to one another; but when it is considered that the Greek words to which it answers, are, in the New Testament, applied to the Father and Son, Hebrews 1:3 . 2 Corinthians 4:6 . and that no single term, at least, can be found more suitable, it can hardly be condemned as unscriptural and improper. There have been warm debates between the Greek and Latin churches about the words hypostasis and persona; the Latin concluding that the word hypostasis signified substance or essence, thought that to assert that there were three divine hypostases was to say that there were three gods. On the other hand, the Greek church thought that the word person did not sufficiently guard against the Sabellian notion of the same individual Being sustaining three relations; whereupon each part of the church was ready to brand the other with heresy, till by a free and mutual conference in a synod at Alexandria, A. D. 362, they made it appear that it was but a mere contention about the grammatical sense of a word; and then it was allowed by men of temper on both sides, that either of the two words might be indifferently used.
See Marci Medulla, 50: 5.& 3; Ridgley's Divinity, qu. 11; Hurrion on the Spirit, p. 140; Doddridge's Lectures, lec. 159; Gill on the Trinity, p. 93; Watts' works, vol. 5: p. 48, 208; Gill's body of Divinity, vol. 1: p. 205, 8 vo. Edwards' History of Redemption, p. 51, note; Horae sol. vol. 2: p. 20.
Webster's Dictionary [4]
(1): ( n.) A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.
(2): ( n.) One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject.
(3): ( n.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.
(4): ( v. t.) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
(5): ( n.) A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.
(6): ( n.) A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character.
(7): ( n.) A parson; the parish priest.
(8): ( n.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.
(9): ( n.) The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.
