Lexical Definition

‎יָפֶה‎ yâpheh (yaw-feh') beautiful ^H:A
from ‎יָפָה‎

[phrase] beautiful, beauty, comely, fair(-est, one), [phrase] goodly, pleasant, well.

• beautiful (literally or figuratively)

1) fair, beautiful, handsome

See Greek: ἀγαθός · βελτίον · εἶδος · καλός · καλός · ὡραῖος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎יָפֶה‎ adjective fair, beautiful; — masculine absolute ‎יָפֶה‎ 2Sam 14:25 + 4 t.; construct ‎יְפֵה‎ Gen 39:6 (twice in verse) + 6 t.; feminine ‎יָפָה‎ Gen 12:14 + 14 t.; construct ‎יְפַת‎; Gen 2:11+ 6 t.; suffix ‎יָפָתִי‎ Song 2:10; Song 2:13 plural ‎יָפוֺת‎ Job 42:15; Amos 8:13 construct ‎יְפוֺת‎ Gen 41:2 ‎יְפֹת‎ vGen 41:4 vGen 41:18 — fair, beautiful, as attribute of woman 2Sam 13:1; 1Kgs 1:3; Amos 8:13; Prov 11:22 compare Job 42:15; Song 6:10 (‎כלבנה‎ ‎׳‎‎י‎); predicate Gen 12:14; 1Kgs 1:4; Song 1:15 (twice in verse); Song 4:1 (twice in verse); Song 4:17; Song 6:4 = substantive fair one Song 1:8; Song 2:10; Song 2:13; Song 5:9; Song 6:1 often construct ‎יְפַתֿ‎ ‎מַרְאֶה‎ Gen 12:11; Gen 29:17; 2Sam 14:27 ‎יְפַתתֹּֿאַר‎ Gen 29:17; 1Sam 25:3; Deut 21:11; Esth 2:7: of kine ‎יְפוֺתמַֿרְאֶה‎ Gen 41:2, compare vGen 41:4 ‎יְפוֺתתֹּֿאַר‎ vGen 41:18 less often of boy, young man ‎אִישׁ יָפֶה‎ 2Sam 14:25 predicate Song 1:16 ‎יְפֵה תֹאַר‎ Gen 39:6 ‎וִיפֵה מַרְאֶה‎ vGen 39:6 (of Joseph); of Jerusalem ‎יְפֵה נוֺף‎ Ps 48:3* of a singer ‎יְפֵה קוֺל‎ Ezek 33:32 of trees: olive ‎יְפֵה פְרִיתֹֿאַר‎ Jer 11:16 cedar (figurative of Egypt) ‎יְפֵה עָנָף‎ Ezek 31:3, compare vEzek 31:9 ‎יָפֶה‎ of everything in its time Eccl 3:11 of various Acts 5:17. — In ‎יְפֵה עֵינַיִם עִם‎ 1Sam 16:12, ‎עִם יְפֵה מַרְאֶה‎ 1Sam 17:42, either ‎יפה‎ = substantive abstract with beauty of eyes, or ‎עִם‎ is textual error (Gr Krenkel^{ZAW, 1882, 309} Bu ‎עֶלֶם‎ youth), see Dr.

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