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Adore

Adore to worship; to express reverence and homage. The forms of adoration among the Jews were putting off the shoes (Ex 3:5; Josh 5:15), and prostration (Gen 17:3; Ps 95:6; Isa 44:15, 17, 19; 46:6). To "kiss t...

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Adore to worship; to express reverence and homage. The forms of adoration among the Jews were putting off the shoes (Ex 3:5; Josh 5:15), and prostration (Gen 17:3; Ps 95:6; Isa 44:15, 17, 19; 46:6). To "kiss the Son" in Ps 2:12 is to adore and worship him. (See Dan 3:5, 6.) The word itself does not occur in Scripture.

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