Adorning

A form of ornamentation, using especially jewels and precious metals, to enhance the beauty of buildings or people.

Buildings were adorned with various materials

2 Chronicles 3:6 See also Psalm 45:8; Isaiah 60:13; Amos 3:15

He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and its gold was from Parvaim.

Objects of worship were adorned

Hosea 10:1 See also Jeremiah 10:3–4

Israel was a luxuriant vine, yielding fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better he made the sacred pillars.

Women adorned themselves with jewellery and fine clothes

Ezekiel 16:11–12 See also 2 Samuel 1:24; Jeremiah 4:30; Ezekiel 16:13

I adorned you with jewelry, and I put bracelets on your wrists and a chain around your neck. I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.

Personal adornment should not be allowed to detract from worship

1 Timothy 2:9 See also 1 Peter 3:3–4

Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,

Adorning used in a metaphorical sense

Isaiah 61:10 See also Job 40:10; Psalm 93:5, Psalm 144:12; Proverbs 1:8–9; Isaiah 60:7; Revelation 21:2

I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.