21 occurrences

'Honorable' in the Bible

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

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent Out

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?

Verse ConceptsCaptainsGuardsLoyaltySons In Law

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

Verse ConceptsThree MenPraising Specific People

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

Verse ConceptsGuardsThirtyPraising Specific People

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.

Verse ConceptsCommanderKingdomsLeprosyOccupationsSoldierssyriaarmy

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

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

Verse ConceptsThree Men

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

Verse ConceptsGuardsThirty

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; And the honorable man, he dwelt in it.

Kings daughters are among thy honorable women: At thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

Verse ConceptsBridesGoldPrincesQueensMarriage, The BrideRight SidesWomen's BeautyGodly Womanjewelryroyalty

the captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the expert artificer, and the skilful enchanter.

Verse ConceptsRankSkillFiftiesSkilled Peoplemagicartistscraftsmanship

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToBad ChildrenDisrespect For Old AgeDiscourtesyOppressorsThe Elderly

Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.

Verse ConceptsDangers Of IgnorancePoverty, SpiritualSuffering, Causes OfPeople Exiled

The elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

Verse ConceptsTailsWicked ProphetsHead As ChiefFake Friends

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

Verse ConceptsTradeCommerceGod's Plans

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

Verse ConceptsendHumilitySuperiorityHumbling The ProudGod Opposes The ProudGod's Plans

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

Verse ConceptsThe Law Proclaimed

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.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerEmotions, Shown By GodCherishingGood PeopleExchange Of NationsAcne

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);

Verse ConceptsGod, Feminine Descriptions OfRestoring NationsWombFrom The WombChrist's Own GloryGod Our Strengthmums

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

Verse ConceptsSabbath, In OtDesecrationSabbath Observed

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

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofChainsNoblesPeople Cut In PiecesExiled ForeignersStriking To DeathTragedy On The StreetsChildren Suffering

Bible Theasaurus

Honorable (62 instances)
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