hadar (to honor) · Rightly

Meaning

To honour, adorn, glorify, be high(Qal) · (Niphal) to be honoured · (Hithpael) to honour oneself, claim honour

How it's translated

you must show partiality 1
you will honor 1
and you will honor 1
you claim honor 1
and mountainous land 1
adorned 1
they have been honored 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Leviticus 2
Isaiah 2
Exodus 1
Proverbs 1
Lamentations 1

5 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Leviticus 19:15Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Leviticus 19:32Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
Proverbs 25:6Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:
Isaiah 45:2I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
Isaiah 63:1Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Lamentations 5:12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

Hebrew dictionary

הָדַר hadar · to honor

1) to honour, adorn, glorify, be high 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to swell 1a1a) swelling (pass participle) 1a2) to honour, pay honour to, show partiality 1a3) to adorn 1a3a) adorned (pass participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be honoured 1c) (Hithpael) to honour oneself, claim honour

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “honor” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

HON'OR, noun

on'or. [Latin honor honos.]

The esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation.
A testimony of esteem; any expression of respect or of high estimation by words or actions; as the honors of war; military honors; funeral honors; civil honors.
Dignity; exalted rank or place; distinction.“I have given thee riches and honor” 1 Kings 3:13“Thou art clothed with honor and majesty” Psalms 104:1
Reverence; veneration; or any act by which reverence and submission are expressed, as worship paid to the Supreme Being.

All definitions and other forms of “honor”

Reputation; good name; as, his honor is unsullied.
True nobleness of mind; magnanimity; dignified respect for character, springing from probity, principle or moral rectitude; a distinguishing trait in the character of good men.
An assumed appearance of nobleness; scorn of meanness, springing from the fear of reproach, without regard to principle; as, shall I violate my trust? Forbid it, honor
Any particular virtue much valued; as bravery in men, and chastity in females.
Dignity of mien; noble appearance.
That which honors; he or that which confers dignity; as, the chancellor is an honor to his profession.
Privileges of rank or birth; in the plural.
Civilities paid.
That which adorns; ornament; decoration.
A noble kind of seignory or lordship, held of the king in capite.

HON'OR, verb intransitive

on'or. [Latin honoro.]

To revere; to respect; to treat with deference and submission, and perform relative duties to.
To reverence; to manifest the highest veneration for, in words and actions; to entertain the most exalted thoughts of; to worship; to adore.
To dignify; to raise to distinction or notice; to elevate in rank or station; to exalt.“Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honor” Esther 6:9
To glorify; to render illustrious.“I will be honored upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host” Exodus 14:4
To treat with due civility and respect in the ordinary intercourse of life.
In commerce, to accept and pay when due; as, to honor a bill of exchange.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.