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Pretty

יְפֵה־פִיָּהStrong’s H3304

yepheh-phiyyah (ye-pheh-phiy-yah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Yepheh-phiyyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “beautifully” and “beautiful”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.”
Jeremiah 46:20 KJV
Meaning
  1. Pretty (reduplication with the force of the diminutive)fair of mouth (lit.)
  2. (CLBL) very beautiful
How it's translated
  • beautifully 1
  • beautiful 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Jeremiah 1

1 book in all.

Explore in Scripture
    Hebrew dictionary

    יְפֵה־פִיָּה yepheh-phiyyah · pretty

    1) pretty (reduplication with the force of the diminutive) 1a) fair of mouth (lit.) 2) (CLBL) very beautiful

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “pretty” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    PRETTY, adjective

    prit'ty.

    1. Having diminutive beauty; of a pleasing form with the strong lines of beauty, or without gratefulness and dignity; as a pretty face; a pretty person; a pretty flower.
    2. Neat and appropriate without magnificence or splendor; as a pretty dress.
    3. Handsome; neatly arranged or ornamented; as a pretty flower bed.
    4. Neat; elegant without elevation or grandeur; as a pretty tale or story; a pretty song or composition.
    All definitions and other forms of “pretty”
    1. Sly; crafty; as, he has played his friend a pretty trick.
    2. Small; diminutive; in contempt.
    3. Not very small; moderately large; as a pretty way off.

    PRETTY, adverb

    prit'ty. In some degree; tolerably; moderately; as a farm pretty well stocked; the colors became pretty vivid; I am pretty sure of the fact; the wind is pretty fair. The English farthing is pretty near the value of the American cent. In these and similar phrases, pretty expresses less than very.

      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.