Hebrew

To beautify

נָוָהStrong’s H5115

navah (na-vah)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Navah is the Hebrew word usually translated “glorify him” and “stays at home”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.”

Exodus 15:2 KJV

Meaning

To beautify(Hiphil) to beautify, adorn
(Qal) to dwell, abide, keep at home

How it's translated

and i will glorify him 1
he stays at home 1

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

Where it's used most

Exodus 1
Habakkuk 1

2 books in all.

Related words

To beautify (paar)

Explore in Scripture

Habakkuk 2:5Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

Hebrew dictionary

נָוָה navah · to beautify

1) to beautify 1a) (Hiphil) to beautify, adorn

נָוָה navah · to dwell

(Qal) to dwell, abide, keep at home

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

BEAU'TIFY, verb transitive

bu'tify. [beauty and Latin facio.]

All definitions and other forms of “beautify”

BEAU'TIFY, verb intransitive

bu'tify. To become beautiful; to advance in beauty.

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

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.