21 occurrences

'Honorable' in the Bible

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

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent Out

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

Verse ConceptsCaptainsGuardsLoyaltySons In Law

Wasn't he most honorable of the three? therefore he was made their captain: however he didn't attain to the [first] three.

Verse ConceptsThree MenPraising Specific People

He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain to the [first] three. David set him over his guard.

Verse ConceptsGuardsThirtyPraising Specific People

Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, [but he was] a leper.

Verse ConceptsCommanderKingdomsLeprosyOccupationsSoldierssyriaarmy

Jabez was more honorable than his brothers: and his mother named him Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him with sorrow."

Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain: however he didn't attain to the [first] three.

Verse ConceptsThree Men

Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain to the [first] three: and David set him over his guard.

Verse ConceptsGuardsThirty

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

Kings' daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.

Verse ConceptsBridesGoldPrincesQueensMarriage, The BrideRight SidesWomen's BeautyGodly Womanjewelryroyalty

the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.

Verse ConceptsRankSkillFiftiesSkilled Peoplemagicartistscraftsmanship

The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will 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 go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

Verse ConceptsDangers Of IgnorancePoverty, SpiritualSuffering, Causes OfPeople Exiled

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

Verse ConceptsTailsWicked ProphetsHead As ChiefFake Friends

Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?

Verse ConceptsTradeCommerceGod's Plans

Yahweh of Armies has planned 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 Yahweh, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.

Verse ConceptsThe Law Proclaimed

Now says Yahweh who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him (for I am honorable in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God is become my strength);

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

"If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, [and] the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking [your 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

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Honorable (62 instances)
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