23 occurrences

'Honourable' in the Bible

And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.

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

And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our way that we should go.

Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?

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

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

Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.

And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.

Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.

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

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?

The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.

Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
אדר 
'adar 
Usage: 3

הוד 
Howd 
Usage: 24

יקר 
Yaqar 
Usage: 36

כּבד כּבד 
Kabad 
Usage: 114

כּבד כּבוד 
Kabowd 
Usage: 200

ἄτιμος 
Atimos 
Usage: 2

ἔνδοξος 
Endoxos 
Usage: 3

ἔντιμος 
Entimos 
Usage: 4

εὐσχήμων 
Euschemon 
Usage: 5

τίμιος 
Timios 
Usage: 14

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