hadar · honor, show favor

What it means

hadar (הָדַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “honor, show favor”.

Honor, show respect. In Exodus 23:3 and Leviticus 19:15, show favor to someone in a judgment.

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 show respect to someone.
2. To give someone special treatment in a trial.
3. Splendid in apparel.
4. To make oneself important before others.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• honor ×2
• glorious ×1
• honored ×1
• put yourself forward ×1
• shall you favor ×1
• twisted places ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×2
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×2
• Lamentations×1

• Exodus 23:3

  Nor shall you favor a poor man in his dispute.

• Leviticus 19:15

  You shall not do injustice in judgment: you shall not show favor to the poor and you shall not honor the great; in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

• Leviticus 19:32

  You shall rise before gray hair, and honor the face of an old man, and fear your Elohim. I am YHWH.

• Proverbs 25:6

  Do not put yourself forward before the king, and in the place of the great do not stand;

• Isaiah 45:2

  “I will go before you and make straight the twisted places; doors of bronze I will break, and bars of iron I will cut through;

• Isaiah 63:1

  Who is this who comes from Edom, with garments dyed red from Bozrah, this one glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I, speaking in righteousness, great to save.”

• Lamentations 5:12

  Princes were hung up by their hand; the face of elders was not honored.