Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageShe named the boy Ichabod — meaning 'Where is the Glory?' — saying, 'The glory has departed from Israel,' because the Ark of God had been captured, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GShe named the boy I-Kavod — 'No-Glory' — saying, 'The glory has departed from Yisra'el,' because the Aron of Elohim had been taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
KJV
King James VersionAnd she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleAnd she named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and her father-in-law and her husband had been killed.
Footnotes
אִי-כָבוֹד (*ʾî-ḵāḇôḏ*) fuses the negative particle אִי (*ʾî*, 'there is no' or 'where is?') with כָּבוֹד (*kāḇôḏ*, 'glory/weight/honour'). Both 'No Glory' (FOG) and 'Where is the Glory?' (FOG Message) are linguistically defensible. כָּבוֹד is YHWH's weighty, luminous Presence — the same term for the divine radiance filling the tabernacle (Exod. 40:34–35) and Solomon's temple (1 Kings 8:11), and the same glory Ezekiel watches withdraw from Jerusalem step by step (Ezek. 10–11). A dying, nameless woman becomes the chapter's true theologian, naming what the elders could not see.
