To shine
יָפַעStrong’s H3313yapah (ya-pah)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yapah is the Hebrew word usually translated “shine forth”, “shone forth” and “it shine forth”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.”
Meaning
- To shine, shine forth or out, cause to shine, send out beams(Hiphil)
How it's translated
- shine forth 2
- he shone forth 1
- it shine forth 1
- you have shone forth 1
- and it shone forth 1
- and he makes shine forth 1
- he has shone forth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 4
- Psalms 3
- Deuteronomy 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 3:4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
- Job 10:3Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
- Job 10:22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
- Job 37:15Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
- Psalms 50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
- Psalms 80:1Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
Hebrew dictionary
יָפַע yapah · to shine
1) to shine, shine forth or out, cause to shine, send out beams 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to shine out, shine forth, send out beams 1a2) to cause to shine
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shine” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHINE, verb intransitive
[If s is a prefix, this word accords with the root of Latin canus, caneo.
- To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit lightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night.
- To be bright; to be lively and animated; to be brilliant.
- To be unclouded; as, the moon shines.
- To be glossy or bright, as silk.
All definitions and other forms of “shine”
- To be gay or splendid.
- To be beautiful.
- To be eminent, conspicuous or distinguished; as, to shine in courts.
- To give light, real or figurative.
- To manifest glorious excellencies.
- To be clearly published.
- To be conspicuously displayed; to be manifest.“Let your light so shine before men-” Matthew 5:16
SHINE, noun
- Fair weather.
- Brightness; splendor; luster; gloss.
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.