Noble, Nobles, Nobleman
Noble, Nobles, Nobleman
nob’l, nob’lz, nob’l-man (, horm, , ‘addr; , eugenes, , kratistos, , basilikos): Nobles is the translation of the Hebrew horm (occurring only in the plural), free-born, noble (1Ki 21:8, 1Ki 21:11; Neh 2:16; Neh 6:17, etc.); of ‘addr, begirded, mighty, illustrious or noble (Jdg 5:13; 2Ch 23:20, etc.); of nadhbh, liberal, a noble (Num 21:18; Pro 8:16, etc.).
Other words are gadhol, great (Jon 3:7); yakkr, Aramaic precious (Ezr 4:10); naghdh, a leader (Job 29:10); partemm, foremost ones (Est 1:3; Est 6:9); ‘aclm, those near, nobles (Exo 24:11); barah, fugitive (Isa 43:14); kabhedh, weighty, honored (Psa 149:8); eugenes, wellborn (Act 17:11; 1Co 1:26); kratistos, strongest, most powerful (Act 24:3; Act 26:25).
The Apocrypha, the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American), still further enlarges the list. In the Revised Version (British and American) we have megistanes, great ones (1 Esdras 1:38; 8:26, with entimos, in honor; The Wisdom of Solomon 18:12). Otherwise the Revised Version’s uses of noble, and nobleness are for words containing the root genitive and referring to birth (compare The Wisdom of Solomon 8:3; 2 Macc 6:27, 31; 12:42; 14:42 twice). The King James Version’s uses are wider (Judith 2:2, etc.).
Nobleman is, in Luk 19:12, the translation of eugenes anthropos, a man well born, and in Joh 4:46, Joh 4:49 of basilikos, kingly, belonging to a king, a designation extended to the officers, courtiers, etc., of a king, the Revised Version margin king’s officer; he was probably an official, civil or military, of Herod Antipas, who was styled king (basileus).
For nobles (Isa 43:14), the King James Version have brought down all their nobles, the Revised Version (British and American) has I will bring down all of them as fugitives, margin or, as otherwise read, all their nobles even, etc.; for nobles (Jer 30:21), prince; the English Revised Version has worthies for nobles (Nah 3:18); the Revised Version (British and American) has the noble for princes (Pro 17:26): nobles for princes (Job 34:18; Dan 1:3), for Nazarites (Lam 4:7, margin Nazirites); her nobles for his fugitives, margin or, as other otherwise read, fugitives (Isa 15:5); the American Standard Revised Version has noble for liberal (Isa 32:5); for The nobles held their peace, the King James Version margin The voice of the nobles was hid (Job 29:10), the Revised Version (British and American) has The voice of the nobles was hushed, margin Hebrew: hid; for most noble (Act 24:3; Act 26:25), most excellent.