Dictionaries :: Sound (Adjective), Be Sound

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Sound (Adjective), Be Sound:

"whole, healthy," is used metaphorically of "sound speech," Tts 2:8.
See WHOLE.

Sound (Adjective), Be Sound:

"to be healthy, sound in health" (Eng., "hygiene," etc.), translated "safe and sound" in Luk 15:27, is used metaphorically of doctrine, 1Ti 1:10; 2Ti 4:3; Tts 1:9; 2:1; of words, 1Ti 6:3, RV (AV, "wholesome," RV marg., "healthful"); 2Ti 1:13; "in the faith," Tts 1:13 (RV marg., "healthy"); "in faith," Tts 2:2 (RV marg., ditto).

Note: For "sound mind" in 2Ti 1:7, AV, see DISCIPLINE; in 1Pe 4:7 (AV, "sober"), see MIND, B, No. 5.