Word study

Majestic

6 Hebrew words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “majestic”. 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 “majestic” or one of its forms.

Compare the Hebrew words side by side

Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • אַדִּיר addîrmajestictranslated this way 8 times of its 27 uses · Strong’s H117Adjective  ·  Translated: majestic 7, mighty 6, nobles 5, leaders 3

    Psalm 8:1 For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.

    Isaiah 33:21 But there the Majestic One, our LORD, will be for us a place of rivers and wide canals, where no galley with oars will row, and no majestic vessel will pass.

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  • הָדָר hâdârornament, splendour, honourtranslated this way 3 times of its 30 uses · Strong’s H1926Noun  ·  Translated: splendor 15, majesty 6, majestic 3, honor 3

    Leviticus 23:40 On the first day you are to gather the fruit of majestic trees, the branches of palm trees, and the boughs of leafy trees and of willows of the brook. And you are to rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

    Psalm 29:4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic.

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  • אָדַר âdarwide, greattranslated this way 2 times of its 3 uses · Strong’s H142Verb  ·  Translated: majestic 2, make it glorious 1

    Exodus 15:6 Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.

    Exodus 15:11 Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You — majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?

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  • גָּאוֹן gâônexaltationtranslated this way 2 times of its 49 uses · Strong’s H1347Noun  ·  Translated: pride 21, majesty 6, proud 4, thickets 4

    Job 37:4 Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds.

    Micah 5:4 He will stand and shepherd His flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majestic name of the LORD His God. And they will dwell securely, for then His greatness will extend to the ends of the earth.

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  • אָיֹם âyômterrible, dreadfultranslated this way 2 times of its 3 uses · Strong’s H366Adjective  ·  Translated: majestic 2, dreaded 1

    Song of Solomon 6:4 You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.

    Song of Solomon 6:10 Who is this who shines like the dawn, as fair as the moon, as bright as the sun, as majestic as the stars in procession?

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  • גֵּאוּת gêûthmajestytranslated this way 2 times of its 8 uses · Strong’s H1348Noun  ·  Translated: majesty 2, majestic 2, arrogance 1, raging 1

    Isaiah 28:1 Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine.

    Isaiah 28:3 The majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.

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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.