כָּבוֹדkâbôwd

abundance, honour, glory

Pronunciation: kaw-bode' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3519

Meanings

1. abudance, riches (Genesis 31:1; Isaiah 10:3; Isaiah 61:6)

2. honour, splendour, glory

a. of men (Genesis 45:18; Job 19:9; Job 29:20)

b. of things (Esther 5:11; 1 Samuel 2:8; Isaiah 22:23)

c. glory, of God (Exodus 33:18; Exodus 33:22; Numbers 14:22)

3. honour, dignity (Numbers 24:11; Jeremiah 48:18; Zechariah 2:12)

4. honour, reputation (2 Chronicles 26:18; Ecclesiastes 10:1; Proverbs 21:21)

5. my honour, poetic of the seat of honour in the inner man, the noblest part of man (Genesis 49:6; Psalms 7:6; Psalms 16:9)

6. honour, reverence, glory, as due to one or ascribed to one

a. of men (Malachi 1:6; 1 Chronicles 17:18; 2 Chronicles 32:33)

b. of God (Isaiah 42:8; Isaiah 43:7; Isaiah 48:11)

7. glory, as the object of honour, reverence and glorifying (Psalms 3:4; Psalms 106:20; Jeremiah 2:11)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 200 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 31:1 But Jacob soon learned that Laban’s sons were grumbling about him. “Jacob has robbed our father of everything!” they said. “He has gained all his wealth at our father’s expense.”
  • Genesis 45:13 Go tell my father of my honored position here in Egypt. Describe for him everything you have seen, and then bring my father here quickly.”
  • Genesis 49:6 May I never join in their meetings; may I never be a party to their plans. For in their anger they murdered men, and they crippled oxen just for sport.
  • Exodus 16:7 In the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your complaints, which are against him, not against us. What have we done that you should complain about us?”
  • Exodus 16:10 And as Aaron spoke to the whole community of Israel, they looked out toward the wilderness. There they could see the awesome glory of the Lord in the cloud.
  • Exodus 24:16 And the glory of the Lord settled down on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day the Lord called to Moses from inside the cloud.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).