הָדָר
hâdâr · haw-dawr'
magnificence, i.e. ornament or splendor
Lexicon
Derivation: from H1921 (הָדַר);
magnificence, i.e. ornament or splendor
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: beauty, comeliness, excellency, glorious, glory, goodly, honour, majesty.
Letters
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to reveal, behold › the doorway, the way in › the head, the highest
To reveal, behold of the doorway, the way in of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of הָדָר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
30 occurrences · 30 OT · 0 NT · 23 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and honour3 · 10%
- and majesty3 · 10%
- and for the glory3 · 10%
- of goodly1 · 3%
- his glory1 · 3%
- and beauty1 · 3%
- is full of majesty1 · 3%
- and thy majesty1 · 3%
- and in thy majesty1 · 3%
- and thy glory1 · 3%
- in the beauties1 · 3%
- and glorious1 · 3%
- honour1 · 3%
- majesty1 · 3%
- this honour1 · 3%
- and the beauty1 · 3%
- and their glory1 · 3%
- unto it, the excellency1 · 3%
- and the excellency1 · 3%
- nor comeliness1 · 3%
- all her beauty1 · 3%
- through my comeliness1 · 3%
- thy comeliness1 · 3%
- my glory1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.