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# יִפְעָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3314

**brightness** — used 2 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

brightness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3314/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יִפְעָה: n.f. brightness, splendour [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3314/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. brightness, splendour, יִפְעָתֶ֑ךָ Ez 28:7, 17 of prince and king of Tyre.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: splendor (2).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 28:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.28.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.28.7/#tree)

לָכֵ֗ן הִנְנִ֨י מֵבִ֤יא עָלֶ֙יךָ֙ זָרִ֔ים עָרִיצֵ֖י גּוֹיִ֑ם וְהֵרִ֤יקוּ חַרְבוֹתָם֙ עַל־יְפִ֣י חָכְמָתֶ֔ךָ וְחִלְּל֖וּ יִפְעָתֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* therefore here I \[am\].about.to.bring on you strangers ruthless.\[ones\] of.nations and they.will.draw swords their on the.beauty your.wisdom your and they.will.profane splendor your

*JPS 1917:* Therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

[Ezekiel 28:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.28.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.28.17/#tree)

גָּבַ֤הּ לִבְּךָ֙ בְּיָפְיֶ֔ךָ שִׁחַ֥תָּ חָכְמָתְךָ֖ עַל־יִפְעָתֶ֑ךָ עַל־אֶ֣רֶץ הִשְׁלַכְתִּ֗יךָ לִפְנֵ֧י מְלָכִ֛ים נְתַתִּ֖יךָ לְרַ֥אֲוָה בָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* it.was.haughty heart your in beauty your you.perverted wisdom your on splendor your on \[the\].ground I threw.you before kings I put.you to look on you

*JPS 1917:* Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness; I have cast thee to the ground, I have laid thee before kings, that they may gaze upon thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3314.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3314/): 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).