For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
The 1611 reading
For thou hast made him a little lower then the Angels; and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of crown, meaning to invest, adorn, or honour with a crown, dignity, or reward.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Psalms 8:5
Complete exact-word concordance
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
For thou hast made him a little lower then the Angels; and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
The simple inherite folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
Goe foorth, O yee daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the Crowne wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladnesse of his heart.
Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
The crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grashoppers which campe in the hedges in the cold day: but when the Sunne ariseth, they flee away, and their place is not knowen where they are.
And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
And if a man also striue for masteries, yet is hee not crowned except hee striue lawfully.
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
But wee see Iesus, who was made a little lower then the Angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour, that hee by the grace of God should taste death for euery man.
1611 marginal noteOr, by.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Invested with a crown, honour, dignity, or reward; in Nahum, describing titled officers or dignitaries.