Definition

magnificence, i.e. ornament or splendor

Etymology

from H1921 (הָדַר);

Where the KJV renders it

• beauty
• comeliness
• excellency
• glorious
• glory
• goodly
• honour
• majesty

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.