Topic
Excellency
22 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 49:3ISBE
¶ Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
- Genesis 49:4ISBE
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
- Exodus 15:7ISBE
And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
- Deuteronomy 33:26ISBE
¶ There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
- Deuteronomy 33:29ISBE
Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
- Job 4:21ISBE
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
- Job 13:11ISBE
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
- Job 20:6ISBE
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
- Job 31:23ISBE
For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
- Job 37:4ISBE
After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
- Job 40:10ISBE
Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.
- Psalms 37:20ISBE
But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
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- Psalms 47:4 ISBE
- Psalms 62:4 ISBE
- Psalms 68:34 ISBE
- Ecclesiastes 7:12 ISBE
- Isaiah 13:19 ISBE
- Isaiah 35:2 ISBE
- Ezekiel 24:21 ISBE
- 1 Corinthians 2:1 ISBE
- 2 Corinthians 4:7 ISBE
- Philippians 3:8 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 29 references
ek'-se-len-si (ga-on, ga'awah; huperbole):
"Excellency" in the Old Testament is chiefly the translation of ga'on, "mounting," "swelling" (Ex 15:7; Job 37:4 the King James Version; Ps 47:4 the King James Version; Isa 13:19 the King James Version, etc.); ga'awah, rising, is thrice so rendered (De 33:26,29; Ps 68:34); se'eth, "rising" (twice) (Job 13:11 the King James Version; Ps 62:4 the King James Version); yether, "superabundance" (twice) (Ge 49:3 the King James Version; Job 4:21 the King James Version), and chadhar, "honor," "beauty," "majesty" (twice) (Isa 35:2); gobhah, "uplifted" (Job 40:10); yithron, "advantage" (Ec 7:12); si', "elevation" (Job 20:6, the Revised Version (British and American) "height"). In the New Testament huperbole, "surpassing," "a casting beyond," occurs (2Co 4:7, "that the excellency of the power may be of God," the Revised Version (British and American) "exceeding greatness"); huperoche, "a holding over" or "beyond," is translated "excellency" (1Co 2:1), and to huperechon, "the pre-eminence" (Php 3:8), "the excellency of the knowledge of Christ."
Instead of "excellency" the Revised Version (British and American) has "pride" (Isa 13:19; Eze 24:21), "majesty" (Job 37:4 and the American Standard Revised Version Job 13:11; 31:23), the American Standard Revised Version has "pre-eminence" (Ge 49:3,4), "glory" (Ps 47:4), "dignity" (Ps 62:4); for "the fat of lambs" (Ps 37:20), the English Revised Version has "the excellency of the pastures," with margin, "the fat of lambs"; the American Standard Revised Version retains the King James Version rendering with the English Revised Version in the margin; instead of "Doth not their excellency which is in them go away?" (Job 4:21), the Revised Version (British and American) has "Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them?" margin, "Is not their excellency which is in them removed?"
W. L. Walker
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.