hod · majesty, splendor

What it means

hod (הוֹד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “majesty, splendor”.

The dignity and authority seen in someone.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The glory of God or the king, or a fine look.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• splendor ×19
• majesty ×5

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Numbers×1
• 1 Chronicles×3
• Job×3
• Psalms×8
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Daniel×2
• Hosea×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Zechariah×2

• Numbers 27:20

  Put some of your majesty on him, so that the whole community of the sons of Israel may listen to him.

• 1 Chronicles 16:27

  Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his place.

• 1 Chronicles 29:11

  Yours, YHWH, are the greatness and the might and the beauty and the eminence and the splendor, for all that is in the heavens and on the earth is yours. Yours, YHWH, is the kingdom, and you are the one who exalts himself as head over all.

• 1 Chronicles 29:25

  YHWH magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and put on him a splendor of kingship such as had not been on any king before him over Israel.

• Job 37:22

  From the north comes gold; upon Eloah is fearsome splendor.

• Job 39:20

  Do you make him leap like the locust? The splendor of his snorting is terror.

• Job 40:10

  Adorn yourself, please, with grandeur and height, and with splendor and majesty clothe yourself.

• Psalms 8:1

  For the director. On the Gitit. A psalm of David. YHWH, our Lord, how magnificent is your name in all the earth, you who have set your splendor above the heavens.

• Psalms 21:5

  Great is his glory through your salvation; splendor and majesty you place upon him.

• Psalms 45:3

  Gird your sword on your thigh, mighty one, your splendor and your majesty.

• Psalms 96:6

  Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

• Psalms 104:1

  Bless YHWH, my soul! YHWH my Elohim, you are very great; with splendor and majesty you have clothed yourself,

• Psalms 111:3

  Splendor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures forever.

• Psalms 145:5

  On the majesty of the glory of your splendor and on the matters of your wonders I will reflect.

• Psalms 148:13

  Let them praise the name of YHWH, for his name alone is exalted; his splendor is above earth and heaven.

• Proverbs 5:9

  lest you give to others your splendor, and your years to the cruel one;

• Isaiah 30:30

  And YHWH will make heard the splendor of his voice, and the descent of his arm he will show, with raging anger and the flame of a devouring fire, cloudburst and downpour and stones of hail.

• Jeremiah 22:18

  Therefore, thus says YHWH concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They will not lament for him, ‘Alas, my brother!’ and ‘Alas, sister!’ they will not lament for him, ‘Alas, lord!’ and ‘Alas, his majesty!’

• Daniel 10:8

  So I was left alone and saw this great vision, and no strength was left in me, and my splendor was turned on me into disfigurement, and I did not retain strength.

• Daniel 11:21

  And there will stand up in his place a despised one, on whom they have not conferred the splendor of the kingdom; but he will come in a time of ease and seize the kingdom by intrigues.

• Hosea 14:6

  His shoots will spread out, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.

• Habakkuk 3:3

  Eloah comes from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His majesty covers the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise.

• Zechariah 6:13

  And he will build the temple of YHWH, and he will bear majesty, and will sit and rule on his throne; and he will be a priest on his throne, and counsel of peace will be between the two of them.’

• Zechariah 10:3

  “Against the shepherds my anger has burned, and the male goats I will call to account; for YHWH Tsevaot has attended to his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like his horse of majesty in battle.