Beauty
צְבִיStrong’s H6643tsevi (tse-vi)
Appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsevi is the Hebrew word usually translated “beauty”, “beauty of” and “gazelle”. It appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament.
“And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.”
Meaning
- Beauty, glory, honourbeauty, decoration · honour
- Roebuck, gazelleperhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown
How it's translated
- beauty 6
- beauty of 6
- a gazelle 3
- splendor 3
- like gazelle 2
- the beauty 2
- like a gazelle 2
- by gazelles 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 8
- Song of Solomon 5
- Ezekiel 5
- Deuteronomy 4
- Daniel 4
- 2 Samuel 2
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 11:16In contextBut he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed.
- Daniel 11:41In contextHe shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
- Daniel 11:45In contextAnd he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
- Deuteronomy 12:15Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
- Deuteronomy 12:22Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
- Deuteronomy 14:5The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
Hebrew dictionary
צְבִי tsevi · beauty
1) beauty, glory, honour 1a) beauty, decoration 1b) honour
צְבִי tsevi · gazelle
1) roebuck, gazelle 1a) perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown Also means: tse.viy.yah (צְבִיָּה "gazelle" H6646)
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.