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Strong's #1391: doxa (pronounced dox'-ah)

from the base of 1380; glory (as very apparent), in a wide application (literal or figurative, objective or subjective):--dignity, glory(-ious), honour, praise, worship.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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doxa

1) opinion, judgment, view

2) opinion, estimate, whether good or bad concerning someone

2a) in the NT always a good opinion concerning one, resulting in praise, honour, and glory

3) splendour, brightness

3a) of the moon, sun, stars

3b) magnificence, excellence, preeminence, dignity, grace

3c) majesty

3c1) a thing belonging to God

3c1) the kingly majesty which belongs to him as supreme ruler, majesty in the sense of the absolute perfection of the deity

3c2) a thing belonging to Christ

3c2a) the kingly majesty of the Messiah

3c2b) the absolutely perfect inward or personal excellency of Christ; the majesty

3c3) of the angels

3c3a) as apparent in their exterior brightness

4) a most glorious condition, most exalted state

4a) of that condition with God the Father in heaven to which Christ was raised after he had achieved his work on earth

4b) the glorious condition of blessedness into which is appointed and promised that true Christians shall enter after their Saviour' s return from heaven

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from the base of G1380

Citing in TDNT: 2:233, 178




Usage:

This word is used 168 times:

Romans 3:7: "lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged"
Romans 3:23: "and come short of the glory of God;"
Romans 4:20: "was strong in faith, giving glory to God;"
Romans 5:2: "rejoice in hope of the glory of God."
Romans 6:4: "the dead by the glory of the Father, even so"
Romans 8:18: "worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."
Romans 8:21: "of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God."
Romans 9:4: "adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and"
Romans 9:23: "the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which"
Romans 9:23: "which he had afore prepared unto glory,"
Romans 11:36: "him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen."
Romans 15:7: "received us to the glory of God."
Romans 16:27: "To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever."
1 Corinthians 2:7: "world unto our glory:"
1 Corinthians 2:8: "crucified the Lord of glory."
1 Corinthians 10:31: "do all to the glory of God."
1 Corinthians 11:7: "forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is"
1 Corinthians 11:7: "but the woman is the glory of the man."
1 Corinthians 11:15: "a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given"
1 Corinthians 15:40: "terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one,"
1 Corinthians 15:41: "There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and"
1 Corinthians 15:41: "of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory"
1 Corinthians 15:41: "of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from"
1 Corinthians 15:41: "differeth from another star in glory."
1 Corinthians 15:43: "dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised"
2 Corinthians 1:20: "him Amen, unto the glory of God by us."
2 Corinthians 3:7: "and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the"
2 Corinthians 3:7: "the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance;"
2 Corinthians 3:8: "spirit be rather glorious?"
2 Corinthians 3:9: "the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration"
2 Corinthians 3:9: "of righteousness exceed in glory."
2 Corinthians 3:10: "this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth."
2 Corinthians 3:11: "For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth"
2 Corinthians 3:11: "was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious."
2 Corinthians 3:18: "face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same"
2 Corinthians 3:18: "same image from glory to glory, even as by"
2 Corinthians 3:18: "from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."
2 Corinthians 4:4: "the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is"
2 Corinthians 4:6: "of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus"
2 Corinthians 4:15: "of many redound to the glory of God."
2 Corinthians 4:17: "a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;"
2 Corinthians 6:8: "By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report:"
2 Corinthians 8:19: "us to the glory of the same Lord, and"
2 Corinthians 8:23: "brethren be inquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ."
Galatians 1:5: "To whom be glory forever and ever. Amen."
Ephesians 1:6: "To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted"
Ephesians 1:12: "to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ."
Ephesians 1:14: "unto the praise of his glory."
Ephesians 1:17: "Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom"
Ephesians 1:18: "the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the"









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