יָפֶה
yâpheh · yaw-feh'
beautiful (literally or figuratively)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H3302 (יָפָה);
beautiful (literally or figuratively)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [phrase] beautiful, beauty, comely, fair(-est, one), [phrase] goodly, pleasant, well.
Letters
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the hand that works › to speak, the word › to reveal, behold
The hand that works that works to speak, the word that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of יָפֶה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
42 occurrences · 42 OT · 0 NT · 26 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- behold, thou art fair5 · 14%
- fair4 · 11%
- and well2 · 6%
- well2 · 6%
- my fair one2 · 6%
- o thou fairest2 · 6%
- that thou art a fair1 · 3%
- was beautiful1 · 3%
- person, and well1 · 3%
- a beautiful1 · 3%
- of a beautiful1 · 3%
- and of a fair1 · 3%
- and of a beautiful1 · 3%
- had a fair1 · 3%
- for his beauty1 · 3%
- of a fair1 · 3%
- for a fair1 · 3%
- was fair1 · 3%
- so fair1 · 3%
- beautiful1 · 3%
- so is a fair1 · 3%
- every thing beautiful1 · 3%
- and comely1 · 3%
- not, o thou fairest1 · 3%
- thou art all fair1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.