Topic
Honorable
28 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 34:19ISBE
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.
- Numbers 22:15ISBE
¶ And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.
- 1 Samuel 9:6ISBE
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.
- 2 Kings 5:1ISBE
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.
- Job 22:8ISBE
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
- Psalms 45:9ISBE
Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
- Psalms 111:3ISBE
His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
- Isaiah 3:3ISBE
The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
- Isaiah 3:5ISBE
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.
- Isaiah 5:13ISBE
¶ 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.
- Isaiah 9:15ISBE
The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
- Isaiah 42:21ISBE
The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
Show 16 more
- Isaiah 49:5 ISBE
- Tobit 12:7 ISBE
- Judith 16:21 ISBE
- Wisdom of Solomon 4:8 ISBE
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 24:12 ISBE
- Mark 15:43 ISBE
- Luke 14:8 ISBE
- Acts 13:50 ISBE
- Acts 17:12 ISBE
- Romans 12:17 ISBE
- 1 Corinthians 4:10 ISBE
- 1 Corinthians 12:23 ISBE
- 2 Corinthians 13:7 ISBE
- Philippians 4:8 ISBE
- Hebrews 13:4 ISBE
- Hebrews 13:18 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 30 references
on'-er-a-b'-l (kabhedh; euschemon): In the Old Testament "honorable" is for the most part the translation of kabhedh, properly, "to be heavy," "weighty" (Ge 34:19, the Revised Version (British and American) "honored"; Nu 22:15; 1Sa 9:6; Isa 3:5, etc.); kabhodh, "weight," "heaviness," etc., occurs in Isa 5:13; hodh, "beauty," "majesty," "honor" (Ps 111:3, the Revised Version (British and American) "honor"); 'adhar, "to make honorable," "illustrious" (Isa 42:21, "magnify the law, and make it honorable," the Revised Version margin "make the teaching great and glorious"); yaqar}, "precious" (Ps 45:9); [~nasa' panim, "lifted up of face" (2Ki 5:1; Isa 3:3; 9:15); nesu phanim (Job 22:8, the Revised Version margin "he whose person is accepted"); euschemon, literally, "well fashioned," is translated Mr 15:43, the King James Version "honorable," the Revised Version (British and American) "of honorable estate"; compare Ac 13:50; 17:12; endoxos, "in glory," occurs 1Co 4:10, the Revised Version (British and American) "glory"; timios, "weighty" (Heb 13:4, the Revised Version (British and American) "had in honor"); atimos, "without weight or honor" (1Co 12:23, "less honorable"); entimos, "in honor" (Lu 14:8), "more honorable."
The Revised Version (British and American) gives for "honorable" (1Sa 9:6), "held in honor"; for "Yet shall I be glorious" (Isa 49:5), "I am honorable"; "honorable" for "honest" (Ro 12:17; 2Co 13:7; Php 4:8, margin "reverend"); for "honestly" (Heb 13:18) the American Standard Revised Version has "honorably."
In Apocrypha we have endoxos translated "honorable" (Tobit 12:7, the Revised Version (British and American) "gloriously"); endoxos (Judith 16:21), timios (The Wisdom of Solomon 4:8), doxazo (Ecclesiasticus 24:12, the Revised Version (British and American) "glorified"), doxa (29:27, the Revised Version (British and American) "honor"), etc.
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.