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# יָפָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3302

**be fair** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

be fair [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3302/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָפָה: vb. be fair, beautiful Peʿalʿal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3302/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be fair, beautiful (NH id. Pi. and deriv.; Aramaic Aph. ܐܰܘܦܺܝ is suffice, finish, fail; cf. Aramaic ܦܶܐܐ (PS 3015) beautiful, fit, Nö§ 172 C. Anm. G H \[offmann\] LCB 1882, 321; Arabic وَفَى fulfil, perform; Ethiopic አወፈየ: II. 2, give (entirely) over to, into power of, Di 949)— Pf. יָפִיתְ Ct 7:7; יָפוּ 4:10; 7:2; Impf. 2 fs. וַתִּ֫יפִי Kö Lgb. i. 581) Ez 16:13; 3 ms. apoc. וַיִּיף 31:7;—be beautiful, subj. pers. Ct 4:10; 7:7; of feet v 2; of Jerus. under fig. of woman Ez 16:13; Egypt under fig. of tree 31:7. Impf. 3 ms. sf. יְיַפֵּ֑הוּ Je 10:4 beautify an idol. The (Peʿalʿal?) Pf. form יָפְיָפִיתָ מִבְּנֵי אָדָם ψ 45:3 is contrary to all anal.: read either יָפִיתָ or יְפֵיפִיתָ Ges§ 55. 3 Sta§ 156 R Now (Köi. 583 f. defence is artificial): thou art more beautiful than, etc. Impf. 2 fs. תִּתְיַפִּי beautify thyself Je 4:30.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they are beautiful (2); he (1); it was beautiful (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 7:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.7/#tree)

מַה־יָּפִית֙ וּמַה־נָּעַ֔מְתְּ אַהֲבָ֖ה בַּתַּֽעֲנוּגִֽים׃

*Word for word:* how! you.are.beautiful and how! you.are.lovely O.love with (the) delights

*JPS 1917:* How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

[Psalms 45:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.45.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.45.3/#tree)

יָפְיָפִ֡יתָ מִבְּנֵ֬י אָדָ֗ם ה֣וּצַק חֵ֭ן בְּשְׂפְתוֹתֶ֑יךָ עַל־כֵּ֤ן בֵּֽרַכְךָ֖ אֱלֹהִ֣ים לְעוֹלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* you.are.handsome more than.\[the\].sons of.humankind it.has.been.poured grace on lips your therefore he has.blessed.you God forever of.perpetuity

*JPS 1917:* Thou art fairer than the children of men; grace is poured upon thy lips; therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3302.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3302/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).