Definition

wide or (generally) large; figuratively, powerful

Etymology

from H142 (אָדַר);

Where the KJV renders it

• excellent
• famous
• gallant
• glorious
• goodly
• lordly
• mighty(-ier one)
• noble
• principal
• worthy

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew 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

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.