H3519

• {"n":"Psalm 19:1","s":"The heavens declare the glory of God. The Hebrew noun means weight before it means brightness.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=psalm-19-1","r":"Psalm 19:1","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads glory. None can carry the root, and the English word has drifted toward radiance and applause."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**His word carries weight.** **That was a weighty decision.** English already uses heaviness for importance, and nobody thinks about scales. Now imagine that were your only word for importance, and it never lost the physical sense."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Kavod is from a root meaning heavy. The same root gives the verb in honour thy father, which is closer to treat as weighty than to feel warmly toward. Kavod is substance, the reason something registers, and in the Septuagint it becomes doxa, which then carries the Hebrew sense into the New Testament."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English glory came in through Latin gloria, which was about renown and splendour. The heaviness never made the trip, so the English word and the Hebrew word overlap without matching."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"Abstract theological nouns almost always come from concrete roots. Find the concrete sense and the abstract one stops floating."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Nothing is disputed. No English word means weight and importance and radiance at once, so glory is the least bad option and has been for a thousand years."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05db\u05b8\u05bc\u05d1\u05d5\u05b9\u05d3 kavod \u00b7 H3519"}],"src":["The root kavad, to be heavy: 1 Samuel 4:18; Isaiah 6:10","kabed, honour, in the fifth commandment: Exodus 20:12","Septuagint doxa; the same word at John 1:14"]}
• {"n":"kavod","s":"Glory. From a root meaning heavy. Weight before brightness.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=kavod","r":"Psalm 19:1","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads glory, or honour in some contexts."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**His word carries weight.** English already uses heaviness for importance and nobody thinks about scales."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Kavod is from kavad, to be heavy. The same root gives the verb in honour thy father, which is nearer treat as weighty. Kavod is substance, the reason something registers."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English glory came through Latin gloria, about renown and splendour, so the heaviness never made the trip."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"Abstract theological nouns almost always come from concrete roots. Find the concrete sense and the abstract one stops floating."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Glory is the majority rendering; honour appears where a person is in view."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05db\u05b8\u05bc\u05d1\u05d5\u05b9\u05d3 kavod \u00b7 H3519"}],"src":["kavad, to be heavy: 1 Samuel 4:18","kabed in the fifth commandment: Exodus 20:12","Septuagint doxa for kavod"]}