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# glory

«glory» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **splendour, praise** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

splendour, praise

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

great brightness, splendour and honour, especially of God; praise given to God. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/glory/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today glory means great fame or honour won by deeds; here it means God's splendour or the praise we give Him.

### examples

- And he said: 'Show me, I pray Thee, Thy glory.' (Torah EXO.33.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/glory/#x1)
- "Well, then, glory be to God! (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/glory/#x2)
- The Thirteenth Path is named the Uniting Intelligence and is so called because it is itself the essence of Glory. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/glory/#x3)

### primary record

glory

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 126 (Torah 23, tales 85, Sefer Yetzirah 18); EWT 0; ratio 14.3 (Torah alone 53.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And there I will meet with the children of Israel; and the Tent shall be sanctified by My glory.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.884/)
- [And he said: 'Show me, I pray Thee, Thy glory.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1001/)
- [Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1262/)
- [But in very deed, as I live — and all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.543/)
- [And she said: 'The glory is departed from Israel; for the ark of God is taken.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.120/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «glory» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/glory/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.