To beautify
פָּאַרStrong’s H6286paar (pa-ar)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Paar is the Hebrew word usually translated “beautify”, “has glorified you” and “honor yourself”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I intreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only?”
Meaning
- To glorify, beautify, adorn(Piel) to glorify, beautify · (Hithpael)
- (Piel) to go over the boughs
How it's translated
- to beautify 2
- he has glorified you 2
- honor yourself 1
- you will go over boughs 1
- it should glorify itself 1
- he glorifies 1
- does it glorify itself 1
- he will get glory for himself 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 9
- Exodus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Judges 1
- Ezra 1
- Psalms 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 24:20When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
- Judges 7:2And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
- Ezra 7:27Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem:
- Psalms 149:4For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
- Isaiah 10:15Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
- Isaiah 44:23Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
Hebrew dictionary
פָּאַר paar · to beautify
1) to glorify, beautify, adorn 1a) (Piel) to glorify, beautify 1b) (Hithpael) 1b1) to glorify oneself 1b2) to get glory to oneself, be glorified
פִּאֵר pier · to re-harvest
(Piel) to go over the boughs
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “beautify” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BEAU'TIFY, verb transitive
bu'tify. [beauty and Latin facio.]
All definitions and other forms of “beautify”
BEAU'TIFY, verb intransitive
bu'tify. To become beautiful; to advance in beauty.
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.