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Fair

שַׁפִּירStrong’s H8209

shappir (shap-pir)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Shappir is the Aramaic word usually translated “beautiful”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.”
Daniel 4:12 KJV
Meaning
  1. Fair, beautiful (of foliage)
How it's translated
  • beautiful 2

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

Where it's used most
  • Daniel 2

1 book in all.

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Aramaic dictionary

שַׁפִּיר shappir · fair

fair, beautiful (of foliage)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

FAIR, adjective

  1. Clear; free from spots; free from a dark hue; white; as a fair skin; a fair complexion. hence,
  2. Beautiful; handsome; properly, having a handsome face.“Thou art a fair woman to look upon. Hence” Genesis 12:11
  3. Pleasing to the eye; handsome or beautiful in general.“Thus was be fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches” Ezekiel 31:7
  4. Clear; pure; free from feculence or extraneous matter; as fair water.
All definitions and other forms of “fair”
  1. Clear; not cloudy or overcast; as fair weather; a fair sky.
  2. Favorable; prosperous; blowing in a direction towards the place of destination; as a fair wind at sea.
  3. Open; direct, as a way or passage.
  4. Open to attack or access; unobstructed; as a fair mark; a fair butt; fair in sight; in fair sight; a fair view.
  5. Open; frank; hones; hence, equal; just; equitable.
  6. Not effected by insidious or unlawful methods; not foul.
  7. Frank; candid; not sophistical or insidious; as a fair disputant.
  8. Honest; honorable; mild; opposed to insidious and compulsory; as, to accomplish a thing by fair means.
  9. Frank; civil; pleasing; not harsh.
  10. Equitable; just; erited.
  11. Liberal; not narrow; as a fair livelihood.
  12. Plain; legible; as, the letter is written in a fair hand.
  13. Free from stain or blemish; unspotted; untarnished; as a fair character or fame.

FAIR, adverb

  1. Openly; frankly; civilly; complaisantly.
  2. Candidly; honestly; equitably; He promised fair
  3. Happily; successfully.
  4. On good terms; as, to keep fair with the world; to stand fair with one's companions.

FAIR, noun

  1. Elliptically, a fair woman; a handsome female.
  2. Fairness; applied to things or persons. [Not used.]

FAIR, noun

[Latin forum, or feriae, a holiday, a day exempt from labor; Gr. to trade, whence, emporium, the primary sense of which is to pass.]

    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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.