Appearance
תֹּ֫אַרStrong’s H8389toar (to-ar)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Toar is the Hebrew word usually translated “form”, “appearance” and “like appearance of”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.”
Meaning
- Shape, form, outline, figure, appearance
How it's translated
- form 7
- appearance 3
- like appearance of 1
- appearance his 1
- shape 1
- and form his 1
- appearance their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 4
- 1 Samuel 3
- Isaiah 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Judges 1
- 1 Kings 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 39:6And he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.
- Genesis 41:18And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
- Genesis 41:19And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
- Deuteronomy 21:11And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
- Judges 8:18Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.
- 1 Samuel 16:18Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him.
Hebrew dictionary
תֹּ֫אַר toar · appearance
shape, form, outline, figure, appearance
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “appearance” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
APPE'ARANCE, noun
- The act of coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.
- The thing seen; a phenomenon; as an appearance in the sky.
- Semblance; apparent likeness.“There was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire” Numbers 9:15
- External show; semblance assumed, in opposition to reality or substance; as, we are often deceived by appearances; he has the appearance of virtue.“For man looketh on the outward appearance” 1 Samuel 16:7
All definitions
- Personal presence; exhibition of the person; as, he made his first appearance at court or on the stage.
- Exhibition of the character; introduction of a person to the public in a particular character, as a person makes his appearance in the world, as a historian, an artist, or an orator.
- Probability; likelihood.
- Presence; mien; figure; as presented by the person, dress or manners; as, the lady made a noble appearance
- A being present in court; a defendant's filing common or special bail to a process.
- An apparition.
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.