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Strong's #3302: yaphah (pronounced yaw-faw')

a primitive root; properly, to be bright, i.e. (by implication) beautiful:--be beautiful, be (make self) fair(-r), deck.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

yâphâh

1) to be bright, be beautiful, be handsome, be fair

1a) (Qal) to be beautiful

1b) (Piel) to beautify

1c) (Pual) to be beautiful

1d) (Hithpael) to beautify oneself

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

Psalms 45:2: " Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore"
Song of Solomon 4:10: " fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love"
Song of Solomon 7:1: " beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs"
Song of Solomon 7:6: " fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!"
Jeremiah 4:30: "thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life."
Jeremiah 10:4: " They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not."
Ezekiel 16:13: "fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom."
Ezekiel 31:7: " Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by"









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