To render (or esteem) glorious (in a wide application)
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G1392 is a verb for glorifying, honoring, praising, or causing glory to be displayed. Its subject and object vary: people glorify God, God glorifies the Son, the Son glorifies the Father, and believers are described as glorified.
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G1392 is a verb for glorifying, honoring, praising, or causing glory to be displayed. Its subject and object vary: people glorify God, God glorifies the Son, the Son glorifies the Father, and believers are described as glorified.
The BSB source-word alignment has 61 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include glorify (8), they glorified (5), glorified (4), glorifying (3), is glorified (3).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 5:16. Its strongest book concentrations include John (23), Luke (9), Acts (5), Romans (5).
This entry includes 1 verse guide that explain exact original-language forms in context.
G1392 is a verb for glorifying, honoring, praising, or causing glory to be displayed. Its subject and object vary: people glorify God, God glorifies the Son, the Son glorifies the Father, and believers are described as glorified. The verb does not always identify the same action or time sequence, and its meaning should not be derived from an imaginative history of the related noun alone.
John concentrates glorification language around Jesus' hour. John 12:23 announces that the hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified and immediately speaks of a grain dying and bearing fruit. John 13:31 declares the Son of Man glorified after Judas leaves, as the Passion is set in motion. John 17:1 asks the Father to glorify the Son so the Son may glorify the Father, and verse 5 also speaks of glory with the Father before the world existed. John's glory complex includes Jesus' death, resurrection, exaltation, and return to the Father; the passages should define their relationships rather than a slogan that collapses every stage into one moment.
Romans 8:30 says those justified were also glorified, using a past-tense form within Paul's sequence. The grammar contributes to the force of God's purpose, but the verb alone does not settle every debate about timing or perseverance. First Corinthians 6:20 commands believers to glorify God in the body because they were bought at a price. Neither passage permits romanticizing suffering, demanding bodily harm, or calling abuse a path to glory.
G1392 can describe responsive honor given to God, the Father and Son glorifying one another, glory displayed through Jesus' hour, believers' glorification, and embodied conduct that honors God. Each construction supplies its own agent, object, and setting.
But Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
The next sayings connect glorification with death, fruitfulness, service, the troubled soul, judgment, and Jesus being lifted up. The verse does not make all suffering glorious.
When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.
The prayer places mutual glorification within the hour, the Son's authority to give life, completed work, and his return to glory with the Father.
And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.
Paul speaks of glorification in the completed form used throughout the sequence. Interpretations of its temporal and rhetorical force should come from Romans 8 and Pauline eschatology, not tense labeling alone.
You were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
The command concludes Paul's argument about belonging to Christ, union with him, and the body as a temple of the Holy Spirit. It calls for embodied holiness without authorizing shame, control, or harm toward bodies.
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Greek word. To glorify by ascribing honor and splendor; reflects the Hebrew sense of making weighty or significant.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
16 of 62 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How mood, tense, and voice shift the force of this verb in context.
This verb appears through different tense, voice, mood, or stem patterns. Those forms help readers see how the action is presented in context.
How this verb appears across 59 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
Aspect reflects grammatical form — not authorial emphasis. Participles and infinitives are verbal adjectives and nouns respectively.
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δοξάζω is built from this root:
Assures believers of certain future transformation. Acts 21:15-26
Understanding comes after glorification through cross and resurrection. Romans 8:28-30
Spirit's work centers on magnifying Christ.
Even martyrdom glorifies God.
Affirms that the ultimate focus remains God’s work.
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
John's glory language transforms expectations of honor by placing Jesus' hour beside death, fruitfulness, service, resurrection, and return to the Father. The cross is not an embarrassing detour around which glory must work, yet neither is resurrection merely an explanatory footnote to suffering. John's narrative and prayer hold the saving complex together. Romans 8 then speaks of believers' glorification within God's purpose, and First Corinthians calls the redeemed body to honor God.
These texts foster worship and embodied faithfulness, but they must never be used to glorify abuse. Jesus' Passion is unique, voluntary within his mission, and saving in a way no victim's suffering can be. Churches glorify God by telling truth, protecting bodies, resisting coercion, and honoring the Son whose self-giving reveals the Father.
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G1392 is a verb for glorifying, honoring, praising, or displaying glory. Active and passive constructions shift the agent and recipient, and some uses concern responsive praise while others concern divine action or eschatological glory. The local artifact records about 61 occurrences.
Israel's Scriptures speak of God's glory, the honoring of God's name, and the servant's exaltation. These themes provide canonical context for New Testament glory language, but direct quotation and lexical relationships must be shown passage by passage rather than assumed from the gloss.
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