Definition

to render (or esteem) glorious (in a wide application)

Etymology

from G1391 (δόξα);

Where the KJV renders it

• (make) glorify(-ious)
• full of (have) glory
• honour
• magnify

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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