Word study

Glorious

3 Hebrew and 3 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “glorious”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “glorious” or one of its forms.

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • כָּבוֹד kâbôdabundance, honour, glorytranslated this way 14 times of its 198 uses · Strong’s H3519Noun  ·  Translated: glory 124, honor 30, glorious 14, splendor 5

    Nehemiah 9:5 Then the Levites— Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah— said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting: Blessed be Your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.

    Esther 1:4 And for a full 180 days he displayed the glorious riches of his kingdom and the magnificent splendor of his greatness.

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  • תִּפְאָרָה tiphârâhbeauty, glorytranslated this way 8 times of its 49 uses · Strong’s H8597Noun  ·  Translated: glory 14, splendor 10, glorious 8, beauty 3

    1 Chronicles 22:5 And David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent — famous and glorious throughout all lands. Therefore I must make preparations for it.” So David made lavish preparations before his death.

    Isaiah 60:7 All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth will serve you and go up on My altar with acceptance; I will adorn My glorious house.

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  • כָּבַד kâbadbe heavy, weighty, burdensome, honouredtranslated this way 2 times of its 109 uses · Strong’s H3513Verb  ·  Translated: honor 19, honored 11, heavy 10, hardened 6

    Deuteronomy 28:58 If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name— the LORD your God—

    Psalm 87:3 Glorious things are ascribed to you, O city of God. Selah

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • δόξα dóxahonor, renown, glory splendortranslated this way 19 times of its 163 uses · Strong’s G1391Noun  ·  Translated: glory 131, glorious 18, praise 3, splendor 3

    Matthew 19:28 Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

    Romans 8:21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

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  • ἔνδοξος éndoxoshighly esteemed, splendid, glorioustranslated this way 2 times of its 4 uses · Strong’s G1741Adjective  ·  Translated: elegant 1, glorious things 1, honored 1, glorious 1

    Luke 13:17 When Jesus said this, all His adversaries were humiliated. And the whole crowd rejoiced at all the glorious things He was doing.

    Ephesians 5:27 and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

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  • δοξάζω doxázōI glorify, honor, bestow glory ontranslated this way 2 times of its 61 uses · Strong’s G1392Verb  ·  Translated: glorified 26, glorify 18, glorifying 4, honored 2

    2 Corinthians 3:10 Indeed, what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it.

    1 Peter 1:8 Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.