Adore
Adore
to worship; to express reverence and homage. The forms of adoration among the Jews were putting off the shoes (Ex. 3:5; Josh. 5:15), and prostration (Gen. 17:3; Ps. 95:6; Isa. 44:15, 17, 19; 46:6). To “kiss the Son” in Ps. 2:12 is to adore and worship him. (See Dan. 3:5, 6.) The word itself does not occur in Scripture.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Adore
“To kiss the hand with the mouth” in homage (Job 31:26-27. “If I beheld the sun when it shineth, or the moon, … and my mouth hath kissed my hand”.) The earliest idolatry, that of the sun, moon, and heavenly hosts (Hebrew tsaba), Sabeanism. Laying the hand on the mouth expresses deep reverence and submission (Job 40:4). So “kiss the Son,” i.e. adore (Psa 2:12). Portrayed in the sculptures of Persepolis and Thebes. Falling down and worshipping prostrate was the worship subsequently paid to Babylonian idols (Dan 3:5-6). In the sense of divine worship, it is due to God only, and was rejected by angels and saints when offered to them (Luk 4:8; Act 10:25-26; Rev 19:10; Rev 22:9).
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Adore
By the act of adoration is implied the full and most absolute acknowledgment of worship; and of consequence, such can only be suitable or proper to offer exclusively to Almighty God. JEHOVAH, in his threefold character of person, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, can be the only object of adoration; and this, through the glorious mediator, the Lord Jesus Christ. “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; (saith Jesus) no man cometh unto the Father but by me.” (Joh 14:6) This, in the strictest sense of the word, is adoration. But in the Eastern world, the customs and methods observed in acts of reverence among men, from the humbler to the higher ranks, too nearly approach that homage, which is due only to the Lord. The prostration of the whole body, kissing the earth, and the like, savour much of idolatry.
See Kiss.