paar · have the honor; glorify

What it means

paar (פָּאַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “have the honor; glorify”.

Have the honor; "be pleased to" is a courtesy formula. In other passages, glorify, boast, or adorn.

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. To go over the olive tree again to beat the branches, looking for what was left.
2. To make lovely, give honor, as God his people.
3. To boast against the one who uses you, as if the tool were more than its owner.
4. A polite formula for asking someone of rank: "deign to".

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• beautify ×3
• boast ×2
• glorify myself ×2
• he has glorified you ×2
• Have the honor ×1
• glorify himself ×1
• go over the branches ×1
• he adorns ×1
• he glorifies himself ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• Ezra×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×9

• Exodus 8:9

  Moses said to Pharaoh, “Have the honor over me: for when shall I pray for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be cut off from you and from your houses and remain only in the Nile?”

• Deuteronomy 24:20

  When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the branches after you; it shall be for the resident alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.

• Judges 7:2

  YHWH said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give Midian into their hand, lest Israel boast against me, saying, ‘My hand has saved me.’

• Ezra 7:27

  Blessed be YHWH, the Elohim of our fathers, who put something like this in the heart of the king, to beautify the house of YHWH which is in Jerusalem,

• Psalms 149:4

  For YHWH takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation.

• Isaiah 10:15

  Shall the axe boast over the one who chops with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against the one who wields it? As if a rod should wield those who lift it, as if a staff should lift one who is not wood!

• Isaiah 44:23

  Shout for joy, heavens, for YHWH has done it; shout aloud, depths of the earth; break forth, mountains, into a shout of joy, forest and every tree in it; for YHWH has redeemed Jacob, and in Israel he glorifies himself.

• Isaiah 49:3

  And he said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will glorify myself.”

• Isaiah 55:5

  Look, a nation that you do not know you will call, and a nation that did not know you will run to you, because of YHWH your Elohim, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.

• Isaiah 60:7

  All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth will serve you; they will go up with favor on my altar, and the house of my beauty I will beautify.

• Isaiah 60:9

  For the coastlands will wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish in the lead, to bring your sons from far away, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of YHWH your Elohim, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.

• Isaiah 60:13

  The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the cypress, the elm, and the boxwood together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and the place of my feet I will honor.

• Isaiah 60:21

  And your people, all of them, will be righteous; forever they will possess the land, the shoot of my planting, the work of my hands, to glorify myself.

• Isaiah 61:3

  to appoint for those who mourn in Zion, to give them a headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit; and they will be called terebinths of righteousness, the planting of YHWH, to glorify himself.