Be beautiful
יָפָהStrong’s H3302yaphah (ya-phah)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yaphah is the Hebrew word usually translated “are beautiful”, “are handsome” and “beautify yourself”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.”
Meaning
- To be bright, be beautiful, be handsome, be fair(Qal) to be beautiful · (Piel) to beautify · (Pual) to be beautiful · (Hithpael) to beautify oneself
How it's translated
- they are beautiful 2
- you are handsome 1
- you are beautiful 1
- you beautify yourself 1
- he beautifies it 1
- and you were beautiful 1
- and it was beautiful 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 3
- Jeremiah 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Psalms 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Song of Solomon 4:10How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
- Song of Solomon 7:1How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
- Song of Solomon 7:6How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
- Jeremiah 4:30And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
- Jeremiah 10:4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
- Ezekiel 16:13Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.
Hebrew dictionary
יָפָה yaphah · be beautiful
1) to be bright, be beautiful, be handsome, be fair 1a) (Qal) to be beautiful 1b) (Piel) to beautify 1c) (Pual) to be beautiful 1d) (Hithpael) to beautify oneself
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.