Beautiful
יָפֶהStrong’s H3303yapheh (ya-pheh)
Appears in 38 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yapheh is the Hebrew word usually translated “beautiful”, “beautiful of” and “o beautiful”. It appears in 38 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:”
Meaning
- Fair, beautiful, handsome
How it's translated
- beautiful 17
- beautiful of 10
- o beautiful 3
- and beautiful of 2
- handsome of 2
- good looking of 2
- beautiful my 2
- and handsome of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 11
- Genesis 7
- 1 Samuel 3
- 2 Samuel 3
- Ezekiel 3
- 1 Kings 2
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 12:14And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
- Genesis 29:17Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
- Genesis 39:6And he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.
- Genesis 41:2And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.
- Genesis 41:4And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
- Genesis 41:18And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
All 38 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
יָפֶה yapheh · beautiful
fair, beautiful, handsome
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “beautiful” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BEAU'TIFUL, adjective
bu'tiful. [beauty and full.]
- Elegant in form, fair, having the form that pleases the eye.
- Having the qualities which constitute beauty, or that which pleases the senses other than the sight; as a beautiful sound.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.