Beauty
תִּפְאָרָהStrong’s H8597tipharah (tiph-a-rah)
Appears in 50 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tipharah is the Hebrew word usually translated “splendor of”, “beauty your” and “splendor your”. It appears in 50 verses of the Old Testament.
“The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.”
Meaning
- Beauty, splendour, glorybeauty, finery (of garments, jewels) · glory · honour (or nation Israel) · glorying, boasting (of individual)
How it's translated
- splendor of 5
- beauty your 5
- splendor your 4
- beauty 4
- splendor 4
- glory of 3
- and honor 3
- and for beauty 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 18
- Proverbs 6
- Ezekiel 6
- Jeremiah 5
- Psalms 4
- 1 Chronicles 3
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 28:2And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty.
- Exodus 28:40And for Aaron’s sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.
- Deuteronomy 26:19And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.
- Judges 4:9And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
- 1 Chronicles 22:5And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.
- 1 Chronicles 29:11Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
All 50 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
תִּפְאָרָה tipharah · beauty
1) beauty, splendour, glory 1a) beauty, finery (of garments, jewels) 1b) glory 1b1) of rank, renown 1b2) as attribute of God 1c) honour (or nation Israel) 1d) glorying, boasting (of individual)
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.