יָפָה
yâphâh · H3302 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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to be beautiful, to attractive, to be handsome
Process by which humans or plants develop into a state that is pleasing to the eye
ExamplesPsalm 45:2 You are the most handsome of the sons of mankind; Grace is poured upon Your lips; Therefore God has blessed You forever.
Song of Solomon 7:1 “How beautiful are your feet in sandals, Prince’s daughter! The curves of your hips are like jewels, The work of the hands of an artist.
Song of Solomon 7:6 “How beautiful and how delightful you are, My love, with all your delights!
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to beautify oneself, to make oneself pretty
Action by which humans make themselves pleasing to the eye
ExamplesJeremiah 4:30 And you, desolate one, what will you do? Although you dress in scarlet, Although you adorn yourself with jewelry of gold, Although you enlarge your eyes with makeup, In vain you make yourself beautiful. Your lovers despise you; They seek your life.
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to beautify, to embellish, to adorn
Causative action by which humans cause an object to be pleasing to the eye
ExamplesJeremiah 10:4 “They decorate the idol with silver and gold; They fasten it with nails and hammers So that it will not totter.
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to be delightful, to become delightful
Process in which a condition of becomes exceedingly pleasant
ExamplesSong of Solomon 4:10 “How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much sweeter is your love than wine, And the fragrance of your oils Than that of all kinds of balsam oils!
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
8 occurrences in 4 groups
- Not stated: you (one person) 4
- Not stated: he, she or it 2
- דּוֹדbeloved, love, uncle 1
- פַּעַםtime, step, foot 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- וֹhim 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- מִןfrom+ בֵּןson 1
- בin/on/with+ מְאֹדvery 1
- בin/on/with+ נַעַלsandal 1
- לto/for+ שָׁוְאfalsehood, vanity 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- נָאָה nâʼâh · H4998 · to be beautiful, to be appropriate, to be welcome
- Both words are intransitive verbs of state denoting beauty and comeliness, and could substitute for each other in appropriate contexts.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3302. yaphah [יָפָה] verb be fair, beautiful (Late Hebrew id. Pi`el and derivatives;…
[יָפָה] verb be fair, beautiful (Late Hebrew id. Pi`el and derivatives; Aramaic Aph`el is suffice, finish, fail; compare Aramaic (PS3015) beautiful, fit, Nö§ 172 c. Anm. G H[offmann] LCB1882, 321. Arabic fulfil, perform; Ethiopic II.
2 give (entirely) over to, into power of, Di349) —
Qal Perfect יָפִיתְ Cant 7:7; יָפוּ Son 4:10; Son 7:2 Imperfect2feminine singular וַתִּ֫יפִי (KöLgh. i. 581) Eze 16:13; Eze 16:3masculine singular with apocope וַיִּיף Eze 31:7; — be beautiful, subject person Cant 4:10; Son 7:7; of feet Son 7:2; of Jerusalem under figure of woman Eze 16:13; Egypt under figure of tree Eze 31:7.
Pi`el Imperfect3masculine singular suffix יְיַמֵּ֑הוּ Jer 10:4 beautify an idol. The (
Pe`al`al ?) Perfect form מִבְּנֵי יָפְיָפִיתָ אָדָם Psa 45:3 is contrary to all analogues: read either יָפִיתָ or יְפֵיפִיתָ Ges § 55. 3 Sta§ 156 R Now (Köi. 583 f. defence is artificial): thou art more beautiful than, etc.
Hithpa`el Imperfect2feminine singular תִּתְיַמִּי beautify thyself Jer 4:30.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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