Adore
Fausset's Bible Dictionary [1]
"To kiss the hand with the mouth" in homage ( Job 31:26-27. "If I beheld the sun when it shineth, or the moon, ... and my mouth hath kissed my hand".) The earliest idolatry, that of the sun, moon, and heavenly hosts (Hebrew tsaba ), Sabeanism. Laying the hand on the mouth expresses deep reverence and submission ( Job 40:4). So "kiss the Son," i.e. adore ( Psalms 2:12). Portrayed in the sculptures of Persepolis and Thebes. Falling down and worshipping prostrate was the worship subsequently paid to Babylonian idols ( Daniel 3:5-6). In the sense of divine worship, it is due to God only, and was rejected by angels and saints when offered to them ( Luke 4:8; Acts 10:25-26; Revelation 19:10; Revelation 22:9).
Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary [2]
By the act of adoration is implied the full and most absolute acknowledgment of worship; and of consequence, such can only be suitable or proper to offer exclusively to Almighty God. JEHOVAH, in his threefold character of person, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, can be the only object of adoration; and this, through the glorious mediator, the Lord Jesus Christ. "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; (saith Jesus) no man cometh unto the Father but by me." ( John 14:6) This, in the strictest sense of the word, is adoration. But in the Eastern world, the customs and methods observed in acts of reverence among men, from the humbler to the higher ranks, too nearly approach that homage, which is due only to the Lord. The prostration of the whole body, kissing the earth, and the like, savour much of idolatry.
See Kiss.
Easton's Bible Dictionary [3]
Exodus 3:5 Joshua 5:15 Genesis 17:3 Psalm 95:6 Isaiah 44:15,17,19 46:6 Psalm 2:12 Daniel 3:5,6
Webster's Dictionary [4]
(1): (v. t.) To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize.
(2): (v. t.) To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine.
(3): (v. t.) To adorn.
