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# יֳפִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3308

**beauty** — used 19 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

beauty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3308/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְפִי²: n.m. beauty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3308/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. beauty;—abs. יֹ֫פִי Is 3:24 + 5 times; cstr. יְפִי Ez 28:7; sf. יָפְיִ֑ךָ v 17; יָפְיֵךְ ψ 45:12 + 5 times; יָפְיוֹ Is 33:17 + 2 times; יָפְיָהּ Pr 6:25; Est 1:11; beauty of a woman Is 3:24; ψ 45:12 Est 1:11; Pr 6:25, cf. Pr 31:30; of Jerus. under fig. of woman Ez 16:14, 15, 25; Tyre 27:3 (כְּלִילַת יֹ֑פִי), cf. v 4, 11; prince of Tyre, beauty of (his) wisdom 28:7; king of Tyre v 12 (כְּלִיל יפי), v 17; ideal beauty of king of Judah Is 33:17, Zion (מִכְלַל־יֹ֑פִי) ψ 50:2, cf. La 2:15 (כְּלִי֫לַת יֹ֑פִי); of Egypt under fig. of tree Ez 31:8; of ransomed people of י׳ Zc 9:17.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: beauty (13); of beauty (4); be\] its beauty (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 50:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.50.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.50.2/#tree)

מִצִּיּ֥וֹן מִכְלַל־יֹ֗פִי אֱלֹהִ֥ים הוֹפִֽיעַ׃

*Word for word:* from Zion perfection of.beauty God he.has.shone.forth

*JPS 1917:* Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.

[Isaiah 33:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.17/#tree)

מֶ֥לֶךְ בְּיָפְי֖וֹ תֶּחֱזֶ֣ינָה עֵינֶ֑יךָ תִּרְאֶ֖ינָה אֶ֥רֶץ מַרְחַקִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* a.king in beauty his they.will.see eyes your they.will.see a.land of.distances

*JPS 1917:* Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty; they shall behold a land stretching afar.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3308.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3308/): 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).