Excellency
Bible Usage:
- excellency used 26 times.
- First Reference: Genesis 49:3
- Last Reference: Philippians 3:8
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1346 Used 3 times
- H1347 Used 10 times
- H1363 Used 1 time
- H1926 Used 2 times
- H3499 Used 3 times
- H3504 Used 1 time
- H4480 Used 1 time
- H7613 Used 1 time
- H7863 Used 1 time
- G5236 Used 1 time
- G5242 Used 1 time
- G5247 Used 1 time
EX'CELLENCE
EXCELLENCY, noun [Latin excellentia.] The state of possessing food qualities in an unusual or eminent degree; the state of excelling in any thing.
1. An valuabale quality; any thing highly laudable, meritorious or virtuous, in persons, or valuable and esteemed, in things. Purity of heart, uprightness of mind, sincerity, virtue, piety, are excellencies of character; symmetry of parts, strength and beauty are excellencies of body; an accurate knowledge of an art is an excellence in the artisan; soundness and durability are excellencies in timber; fertility, in land; elegance, in writing. In short, whatever contributes to exalt man, or to render him esteemed and happy, or to bless society, is in him an excellence
2. Dignity; high rank in the scale of beings. Angels are beings of more excellence than men; men are beings of more excellence than brutes.
3. A title of honor formerly given to kings and emperors, now given to embassadors, governors, and other persons, below the rank of kings, but elevated above the common classes of men.