Dictionaries :: Honorable, without Honor

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Honorable, without Honor:

denotes

(a) "held in honor" (en, "in," doxa, "honor;" cp. HONOR, A, No. 2);

(b) "of high repute," 1Cr 4:10, AV "(are) honorable," RV, "(have) glory," in contrast to atimos, "without honor" (see No. 6 below).
See GLORIOUS, GORGEOUSLY.

Honorable, without Honor:

lit., "in honor" (en, "in," time, "honor:" see HONOR, A, No. 1), is used of the centurion's servant in Luk 7:2, "dear" (RV marg., "precious... or honorable"); of self-sacrificing servants of the Lord, said of Epaphroditus, Phl 2:29, RV "(hold such) in honor" (AV, "in reputation;" marg., "honor such"); of Christ, as a precious stone, 1Pe 2:4, 6 (RV marg., "honorable"). Cp. timios in 1:7, 19; see No. 4.

The comparative degree, entimoteros, is used (in the best mss.) of degrees of honor attached to persons invited to a feast, a marriage feast, Luk 14:8, "a more honorable man."
See PRECIOUS.

Honorable, without Honor:

signifies "elegant, comely, of honorable position," AV, "honorable," RV, "of honorable estate," Mar 15:43; Act 13:50; 17:12; for other renderings in 1Cr 7:35; 12:24 see COMELY, B.

Honorable, without Honor:

"precious, valuable, honorable" (akin to time, "honor;" see No. 2), is used of marriage in Hbr 13:4, AV, as a statement, "(marriage) is honorable (in all)," RV, as an exhortation, "let (marriage) be had in honor (among all)."
See DEAR, PRECIOUS, REPUTATION.

Honorable, without Honor:

"good, fair," is translated "honorable" in Rom 12:17; 2Cr 8:21; 13:7, RV (AV, "honest").
See GOOD, HONEST.

Honorable, without Honor:

without honor (a, negative, or privative, time, "honor"), "despised," is translated "without honor" in Mat 13:57; Mar 6:4; "dishonor" in 1Cr 4:10, RV (AV, "despised").
See DESPISE.

The comparative degree atimoteros is used in the best mss. in 1Cr 12:23, "less honorable."

Note: For semnos, honorable, Phl 4:8, RV, see GRAVE.