יֳפִי
yŏphîy · yof-ee'
beauty
Lexicon
Derivation: from H3302 (יָפָה);
beauty
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: beauty.
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
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the hand that works › to speak, the word › the hand that works
The hand that works that works to speak, the word of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of יֳפִי 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
19 occurrences · 19 OT · 0 NT · 16 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- thy beauty3 · 16%
- of beauty2 · 11%
- her beauty1 · 5%
- not after her beauty1 · 5%
- and beauty1 · 5%
- instead of beauty1 · 5%
- in his beauty1 · 5%
- for thy beauty1 · 5%
- in thine own beauty1 · 5%
- and hast made thy beauty1 · 5%
- beauty1 · 5%
- against the beauty1 · 5%
- in beauty1 · 5%
- because of thy beauty1 · 5%
- unto him in his beauty1 · 5%
- and how great is his beauty1 · 5%
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.