Beauty
יֳפִיStrong’s H3308yophi (yo-phi)
Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yophi is the Hebrew word usually translated “beauty”, “beauty your” and “beauty her”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.
“For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.”
Meaning
- Beauty
How it's translated
- beauty 6
- beauty your 4
- beauty her 2
- in beauty your 2
- in beauty his 1
- on beauty your 1
- beauty of 1
- in beauty its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 10
- Psalms 2
- Proverbs 2
- Isaiah 2
- Esther 1
- Lamentations 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Esther 1:11To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.
- Psalms 45:11So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
- Psalms 50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
- Proverbs 6:25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
- Proverbs 31:30Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
- Isaiah 3:24And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
Hebrew dictionary
יֳפִי yophi · beauty
beauty
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “beauty” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BEAU'TY, noun
bu'ty.
- An assemblage of graces, or an assemblage of properties in the form of the person or any other object, which pleases the eye.
- A particular grace, feature or ornament; any particular thing which is beautiful and pleasing; as the beauties of nature.
- A particular excellence, or a part which surpasses in excellence that with which it is united; as the beauties of an author.
- A beautiful person, In scripture, the chief dignity or ornament. 2 Samuel 1:19
All definitions and other forms of “beauty”
- In the arts, symmetry of parts; harmony; justness of composition.
- Joy and gladness. Isaiah 61:3
BEAU'TY, verb transitive
bu'ty. To adorn; to beautify or embellish. obsolete
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.