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title: יֳפִי — beauty · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יֳפִי (3308), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 19 times: beauty. BDB 1906: n.m. beauty. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יֳפִי

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«יֳפִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **beauty** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 19 times · **Key:** 3308 · **BDB:** יְפִי²

### Glosses

beauty (13); of.beauty (4); be\].its.beauty (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

beauty [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3308/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. beauty [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3308/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. beauty;—abs. יֹ֫פִי Is 3:24 + 5 times; cstr. יְפִי Ez 28:7; sf. יָפְיִ֑ךָ v 17; יָפְיֵךְ ψ 45:12 + 5 times; יָפְיוֹ Is 33:17 + 2 times; יָפְיָהּ Pr 6:25; Est 1:11; beauty of a woman Is 3:24; ψ 45:12 Est 1:11; Pr 6:25, cf. Pr 31:30; of Jerus. under fig. of woman Ez 16:14, 15, 25; Tyre 27:3 (כְּלִילַת יֹ֑פִי), cf. v 4, 11; prince of Tyre, beauty of (his) wisdom 28:7; king of Tyre v 12 (כְּלִיל יפי), v 17; ideal beauty of king of Judah Is 33:17, Zion (מִכְלַל־יֹ֑פִי) ψ 50:2, cf. La 2:15 (כְּלִי֫לַת יֹ֑פִי); of Egypt under fig. of tree Ez 31:8; of ransomed people of י׳ Zc 9:17.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יֳפִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3308/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 50:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.50.2/)

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מִצִּיּ֥וֹן מִכְלַל־יֹ֗פִי אֱלֹהִ֥ים הוֹפִֽיעַ׃

*Word for word:* from Zion perfection of.beauty God he.has.shone.forth

*JPS 1917:* Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.

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[Isaiah 33:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.17/)

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מֶ֥לֶךְ בְּיָפְי֖וֹ תֶּחֱזֶ֣ינָה עֵינֶ֑יךָ תִּרְאֶ֖ינָה אֶ֥רֶץ מַרְחַקִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* a.king in beauty his they.will.see eyes your they.will.see a.land of.distances

*JPS 1917:* Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty; they shall behold a land stretching afar.

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