'Honorable' in the Bible

And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.

May the firstborn of his bull be honorable to him, and may his horns be those of a wild ox. With them may he push people all together, to the ends of the earth. These are the myriads of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh."

Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who among all thy servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into thy council, and is honorable in thy house?

So Achish summoned David and told him, “As the Lord lives, you are an honorable man. I think it is good to have you working with me in the camp, because I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until today. But the leaders don’t think you are reliable.

Was he not most honorable of the three? therefore he was made their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.

He was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.

The Lord will return his bloody deeds upon his own head, because he struck down two men more righteous and honorable than he and killed them with the sword, without my father David knowing: Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Jehovah had given victory unto Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.

Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez and said, “I gave birth to him in pain.”

Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.

Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.

Judges, envoys, officials, Persians, the people of Erech, the Babylonians, the people of Susa (that is, the Elamites) and many other nations whom the great and honorable Osnappar deported and resettled in Samaria and in the rest of the province beyond the Euphrates River.

“But the earth belongs to the mighty man,And the honorable man dwells in it.

The king's daughters are among your honorable women; the queen, dressed in gold from Ophir, has taken her place at your right hand."

Splendid and majestic is His work,And His righteousness endures forever.

Honorable wages lead to life; the salaries of the wicked, to retribution.

The way of the Lord is a stronghold for the honorable,but destruction awaits the malicious.

It is terrible to punish a righteous person, and to flog honorable men is wrong.

It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute,but any fool can get himself into a quarrel.

To eat too much honey isn't good; and neither is it honorable to seek one's own glory.

The captain of fifty and the honorable man,The counselor and the expert artisan,And the skillful enchanter.

The people will oppress one another,man against man, neighbor against neighbor;the youth will act arrogantly toward the elder,and the worthless toward the honorable.

Therefore My people go into exile for their lack of knowledge;And their honorable men are famished,And their multitude is parched with thirst.

The head is the elder and honorable man,And the prophet who teaches falsehood is the tail.

Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?

Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

People will no longer call a fool noble, nor will a bad person be declared honorable.

An honorable man makes honorable plans; his honorable character gives him security.

It pleased Jehovah, for his righteousness'sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.

Since thou hast been precious in my sight, and honorable, and I have loved thee; therefore will I give men in thy stead, and peoples instead of thy life.

“One will say, ‘I am the Lord’s’;And another will name himself after Jacob;And another will write on his hand, ‘I am the Lord’s,’And be called by the [honorable] name of Israel.

And now saith Jehovah that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered unto him (for I am honorable in the eyes of Jehovah, and my God is become my strength);

“If you keep from desecrating the Sabbath,from doing whatever you want on My holy day;if you call the Sabbath a delight,and the holy day of the Lord honorable;if you honor it, not going your own ways,seeking your own pleasure, or talking too much;

All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth shall serve you. They shall present a sacrifice for favor [on] my altar, and I will glorify {my honorable house}.

Yet she became an exile,She went into captivity;Also her small children were dashed to piecesAt the head of every street;They cast lots for her honorable men,And all her great men were bound with fetters.