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# תֹּאַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8389

**outline** — used 15 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

outline [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8389/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תֹּ֫אַר: n.m. outline, form [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8389/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. La 4:8 outline, form (Ph. תאר; according to SchwallyIdiot. 100 proposes something gazed at, from √ תאר = ChrPal Aramaic ܬܐܪ gaze at);—ת׳ abs. Gn 29:17 +; cstr. Ju 8:18; sf. תֹּֽאֲרוֹ (Ges§ 93q) Is 52:14, תָּאֳרוֹ 1 S 28:14;—form, of woman, יְפַת תּ׳ Gn 29:17 (E; + מַרְאֶה, ‖ later צֶלֶם וּרְמוּת 1:26, LagOr. ii. 62; BN 149), Est 2:7 (+ id.), 1 S 25:3; Dt 21:11; of man, יְפֵה־ת׳ Gn 39:6 (J; + מַרְאֶה), cf. Is 52:14 (+ id.), 53:2 (+ id., הָדָר), Ju 8:18, so also 1 Ch 17:17 (for MT תור) Klo PerlesAnal. 68; אִישׁ ת׳ 1 S 16:18, טוֹב־ת׳ 1 K 1:6; מַה־תָּאֳרוֹ 1 S 28:14; v. La 4:8 (where by metonymy = aspect, visage); of cattle, וִיפוֹת ת׳ Gn 41:18 (E), רָעוֹת ת׳ v 19 (E); tree, זַיִת רַעֲנָן יְפֵה פְרִי־ת׳ Je 11:16 (Du יְפֵיפֵה ת׳, v. 46:20)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 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: of form (10); appearance (2); form (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 29:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.29.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.29.17/#tree)

וְעֵינֵ֥י לֵאָ֖ה רַכּ֑וֹת וְרָחֵל֙ הָֽיְתָ֔ה יְפַת־תֹּ֖אַר וִיפַ֥ת מַרְאֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the.eyes of.Leah \[were\].weak and Rachel she.was beautiful of.form and beautiful of.appearance

*JPS 1917:* And Leah's eyes were weak; but Rachel was of beautiful form and fair to look upon.

[Genesis 41:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.18/#tree)

וְהִנֵּ֣ה מִן־הַיְאֹ֗ר עֹלֹת֙ שֶׁ֣בַע פָּר֔וֹת בְּרִיא֥וֹת בָּשָׂ֖ר וִיפֹ֣ת תֹּ֑אַר וַתִּרְעֶ֖ינָה בָּאָֽחוּ׃

*Word for word:* and there! from the River \[were\].coming.up seven cows fat of.flesh and good.looking of.form and they.grazed among the reed\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and well-favoured; and they fed in the reed-grass.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8389.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8389/): 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).