Honorable
Honorable
oner-a-b’l (, kabhedh; , euschemon): In the Old Testament honorable is for the most part the translation of kabhedh, properly, to be heavy, weighty (Gen 34:19, the Revised Version (British and American) honored; Num 22:15; 1Sa 9:6; Isa 3:5, etc.); kabhodh, weight, heaviness, etc., occurs in Isa 5:13; hodh, beauty, majesty, honor (Psa 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); , yakar, precious (Psa 45:9); nasa’ panm, lifted up of face (2Ki 5:1; Isa 3:3; Isa 9:15); nesu phanm (Job 22:8, the Revised Version margin he whose person is accepted); euschemon, literally, well fashioned, is translated Mar 15:43, the King James Version honorable, the Revised Version (British and American) of honorable estate; compare Act 13:50; Act 17:12; endoxos, in glory, occurs 1Co 4:10, the Revised Version (British and American) glory; tmios, 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 (Luk 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 (Rom 12:17; 2Co 13:7; Phi 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.