Word study
Splendor
7 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “splendor”. 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 “splendor” or one of its forms.
Compare the Hebrew words side by side
Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- הָדָר hâdârornament, splendour, honourtranslated this way 15 times of its 30 uses · Strong’s H1926Noun · Translated: splendor 15, majesty 6, majestic 3, honor 3Full study and all 29 verses →
Psalm 45:3 Strap your sword at your side, O mighty warrior; appear in your majesty and splendor.
Proverbs 20:29 The glory of young men is their strength, and gray hair is the splendor of the old.
- תִּפְאָרָה tiphârâhbeauty, glorytranslated this way 10 times of its 49 uses · Strong’s H8597Noun · Translated: glory 14, splendor 10, glorious 8, beauty 3Full study and all 49 verses →
Exodus 28:2 Make holy garments for your brother Aaron, to give him glory and splendor.
Psalm 71:8 My mouth is filled with Your praise and with Your splendor all day long.
- הוֹד hôdsplendour, majesty, vigourtranslated this way 9 times of its 24 uses · Strong’s H1935Noun · Translated: splendor 9, majesty 3, glory 2Full study and all 24 verses →
1 Chronicles 16:27 Splendor and majesty are before Him; strength and joy fill His dwelling.
Psalm 21:5 Great is his glory in Your salvation; You bestow on him splendor and majesty.
- כָּבוֹד kâbôdabundance, honour, glorytranslated this way 6 times of its 198 uses · Strong’s H3519Noun · Translated: glory 124, honor 30, glorious 14, splendor 5Full study and all 188 verses →
Genesis 45:13 Tell my father about all my splendor in Egypt and everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”
Psalm 49:16 Do not be afraid when a man grows rich, when the splendor of his house increases.
- הֲדָרָה hădârâhadornment, glorytranslated this way 5 times of its 5 uses · Strong’s H1927Noun · Translated: splendor 5Full study and all 5 verses →
1 Chronicles 16:29 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; bring an offering and come before Him. Worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness;
2 Chronicles 20:21 Then Jehoshaphat consulted with the people and appointed those who would sing to the LORD and praise the splendor of His holiness. As they went out before the army, they were singing: “Give thanks to the LORD, for His loving devotion endures forever.”
- יִפְעָה yiphâhbrightness, splendourtranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s H3314Noun · Translated: splendor 2Full study and all 2 verses →
Ezekiel 28:7 behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor.
Ezekiel 28:17 Your heart grew proud of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor; so I cast you to the earth; I made you a spectacle before kings.
- גָּאוֹן gâônexaltationtranslated this way 2 times of its 49 uses · Strong’s H1347Noun · Translated: pride 21, majesty 6, proud 4, thickets 4Full study and all 45 verses →
Nahum 2:2 For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and ruined the branches of their vine.
Greek words (New Testament)
- δόξα dóxahonor, renown, glory splendortranslated this way 3 times of its 163 uses · Strong’s G1391Noun · Translated: glory 131, glorious 18, praise 3, splendor 3Full study and all 149 verses →
1 Corinthians 15:40 There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the splendor of the heavenly bodies is of one degree, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is of another.
1 Corinthians 15:41 The sun has one degree of splendor, the moon another, and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.
How to study a word well
- 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.
- 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.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- 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.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- 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.