Lexicon
הוֹן
hon
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H:N-M Hebrew

substance

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Hebrew
Language

hon denotes wealth, possessions, and material resources held, gained, traded, or offered in Scripture.

The term denotes material wealth or possessions: household resources, valuable goods, and accumulated assets. The same use appears in sayings about gaining, losing, valuing, or giving such resources and in Ezekiel’s listing of a trading city’s commercial goods.

Senses in use

  1. Material wealth, possessions, and resources · dominant

    The noun identifies resources treated as valuable possessions: in Proverbs 10:15 the APB renders the rich person’s resources as a fortified city, while in Proverbs 13:11 it renders them as something diminished or increased by gathering. In Proverbs 3:9 the construct form stands in the clause about honoring the LORD with one’s resources; in Song of Songs 8:7 it occurs in the proposed exchange of everything in a house for love. In Ezekiel 27:27 and Ezekiel 27:33, construct forms occur among wares, merchandise, and other commercial holdings that fall or enrich kings.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the term with “wealth,” “substance,” and “riches,” especially in clauses about household holdings, commercial goods, and valuable resources. These renderings show the verse-level presentation rather than fixed English equivalents.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture