Bible word study

Kavod (Strong’s H3519): Meaning in the Bible

Kavod (כָּבוֹד) is the Hebrew word numbered H3519 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness. In the King James Bible it is translated glorious(-ly), glory, honour(-able)..

• Original wordכָּבוֹד
• Transliterationkâbôwd
• Pronunciationkaw-bode'
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH3519
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. rarely כָּבֹד; from H3513;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Kavod appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Kavod (H3519) stands behind 200 English renderings in 189 verses across 27 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Psalms (51), Isaiah (38), Ezekiel (19).

How the King James Bible renders Kavod, by count

• glory156 of 200 (78 percent)
• honour32 of 200 (16 percent)
• glorious10 of 200 (5 percent)
• gloriously1 of 200 (0 percent)
• honourable1 of 200 (0 percent)

Three places to read Kavod

• Genesis 31:1 And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s hath he gotten all this glory.
• Psalms 24:10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
• Isaiah 11:10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Kavod in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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