שָׁפַר
shâphar · H8231 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to be beautiful, to be pleasing
State in which the outward appearance of humans, animals, or objects is pleasing to the eye
ExamplesPsalm 16:6 The measuring lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; Indeed, my inheritance is beautiful to me.
How it’s used In 2 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נַחֲלָהinheritance, heritage 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ נִיme 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Good002001001031
- This verb denotes something pleasant or beautiful, as in Psalm 16:6's declaration that the measuring lines have fallen for the psalmist in pleasant places.
- Right002001003013
- The verb also denotes an allotment being fitting or right, reflected in the same Psalm 16:6 declaration that the psalmist's own inheritance is beautiful to him.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8231. shaphar [שָׁפַר] verb be beautiful, fair, comely (Arabic remove veil (of women),…
[שָׁפַר] verb be beautiful, fair, comely (Arabic remove veil (of women), shine; Aramaic שְׁפַר be pleasing (see Dan 6:2), be beautiful, bright, pleasing, beautiful); —
Qal Perfect3feminine singular עָלָ֑י שָֽׁפְרָה (Aramaic) Psa 16:6 (the) heritage is beautiful for (pleasing to) me (see עַל II. 8).
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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