Hod (Hebrew)

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For Hod as used in Kabbalah, see Hod (Kabbalah).
For the city Hod HaSharon, see Hod HaSharon.

Hod הוד is the Hebrew word for "majesty", "splendor" or "glory".

[edit] Hod in the prayers

When one recites the Hallel prayer (derived from the Book of Psalms) on certain Jewish holidays, there is a climactic verse that is repeated by the hazzan and congregants in synagogue: hodu ladonai ki tov הוֹדוּ לַיהוָה כִּי-טוֹב "Praise God for he is good" (Psalms 118:29 [1] ) where the word Hodu is the plural imperative of "praise".

[edit] Hodu is India

In Hebrew, the nation of India is known as Hodu הוֹדוּ . In the scroll of Esther the first verse of chapter one describes the King Ahasuerus as ruling a Persian Empire stretching from Hodu ("India") to Cush ("Africa"): הַמֹּלֵךְ מֵהֹדּוּ וְעַד-כּוּשׁ (Esther 1:1 [2] ).

A turkey is called a tarnegol hodu ("chicken [of] 'India'"), perhaps because it was brought from the Americas and its association with North America's Native Americans - who are often referred to as "Indians".

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