Beauty
שֶׁ֫פֶרStrong’s H8233shepher (she-pher)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shepher is the Hebrew word usually translated “beauty”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.”
Meaning
- Beauty, goodness, goodliness
How it's translated
- beauty 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
שֶׁ֫פֶר shepher · beauty
beauty, goodness, goodliness
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.