Glory
The Hebrew translation:
| Strong's Concordance | ||
|---|---|---|
| Original Word | כָּבוֹד | |
| Part of Speech | Noun Masculine | |
| Transliteration | kabowd | |
| Phonetic Spelling | kaw-bode' | |
| Definition | glorious |
Brown-Driver-Briggs: abundance, honour, glory
The Greek translation:
| Strong's Concordance | |
|---|---|
| Original Word | δόξα, ης, ἡ |
| Part of Speech | Noun, Feminine |
| Transliteration | doxa |
| Phonetic Spelling | dox'-ah |
| Definition | opinion (always good in NT), praise, honor, glory |
| Usage | honor, renown; glory, an especially divine quality, the unspoken manifestation of God, splendor |
However, the English Oxford dictionary adds "worship" to the definition which causes lots of confusion because only God may be worshipped and served.
- high renown or honour won by notable achievements
- magnificence or great beauty
- praise, worship, and thanksgiving offered to a deity
- a luminous ring or halo, especially as depicted around the head of Christ or a saint
However, in the context of the bible, humans can also have "glory", for example:
And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there. -- Revelations 21:23-25 (ESV)