The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Beautiful and Lovely

Hey, I was just wondering if any of you could tell me how to tell someone that they're Beautiful or Lovely (in either a physical and/or spiritual sense) in Hebrew? I was just searching for it and I found in the interliner several words like Yapheh and To'ar, but I don't know the first thing about the structure of the Hebrew Language or it's conotations. This is just a really random question so don't bother scratching your head and wasting your time if you don't know, but if you do happen to speak the language, I would appreciate this tidbit of knowledge. Specifically the question would be, What is the one Hebrew word that has the closest meaning to and fullest meaning of the english word Beautiful?

Just curious,

-Brother Luke

My Vine's doesn't have anything for it. I'll look it up in e-Sword later.

You wouldn't happen to be in love, would you?

Henry, I will greatly appreciate any help and assistance you may offer in this matter. I would prefer for various reasons not to get into the reason why I've asked this question, I will say that I am very VERY careful about saying anything such as "I Love . . . " and that this is not currently a matter of love, but a matter of curiousity.

Again, thank you,

-Brother Luke

He he he. I was being somewhat facetious.

Here you go. This all comes from Strong's. I thought I'd let you pick the best fit.

H2896
tobe
From H2895; good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well): - beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ([-favoured]).

H3190
yaw-tab'
A primitive root; to be (causatively) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right): - be accepted, amend, use aright, benefit, be (make) better, seem best, make cheerful, be comely, + be content, diligent (-ly), dress, earnestly, find favour, give, be glad, do (be, make) good ([-ness]), be (make) merry, please (+ well), shew more [kindness], skilfully, X very small, surely, make sweet, thoroughly, tire, trim, very, be (can, deal, entreat, go, have) well [said, seen ].

H3302
yaw-faw'
A primitive root; properly to be bright, that is, (by implication) beautiful: - be beautiful, be (make self) fair (-r), deck.

H3303
yaw-feh'
From H3302; beautiful (literally of figuratively): - + beautiful, beauty, comely, fair (-est, one), + goodly, pleasant, well.

H3304
yef-eh' fee-yaw'
From H3302 by reduplication; very beautiful: - very fair.

H4758
mar'eh
mar-eh'
From H7200; a view (the act of seeing); also an appearance (the thing seen), whether (real) a shape (especially if handsome, comeliness; often plural the looks), or (mental) a vision: - X apparently, appearance (-reth), X as soon as beautiful (-ly), countenance, fair, favoured, form, goodly, to look (up) on (to), look [-eth], pattern, to see, seem, sight, visage, vision.

H4998
naw-aw'
A primitive root; properly to be at home, that is, (by implication) to be pleasant (or suitable), that is, beautiful: - be beautiful, become, be comely.

H5000
naw-veh'
From H4998 or H5116; suitable, or beautiful: - becometh, comely, seemly.

H6643
tseb-ee'
From H6638 in the sense of prominence; splendor (as conspicuous); also a gazelle (as beautiful): - beautiful (-ty), glorious (-ry), goodly, pleasant, roe (-buck).

H8209
shap-peer'
(Chaldee); intensive of a form corresponding to H8208; beautiful: - fair.

H8232
shephar
shef-ar'
(Chaldee); corresponding to H8231; to be beautiful: - be acceptable, please, + think good.

H8389
to'-ar
From H8388; outline, that is, figure or appearance: - + beautiful, X comely, countenance, + fair, X favoured, form, X goodly, X resemble, visage.

Henry, Thank you once again, I do have a strong's, but it's an older book which has sat for probably decades in an Uncle and Aunts house and has absorbed a great deal of smoke to such a degree that I find it terribly uncomfortable to even be near, and whatever exactly I have on my Power Bible CD on my computer doesn't make very much sense to me. I hope though that I didn't create a lot of work or headache for you.

Once again, appreciated.

Oh, and I also wanted to say that I appreciated your usage of "facetious", that's a word you don't see or hear very much.

Thanx,

-Brother Luke

No problem. I used e-Sword (www.e-sword.net), a free bible program that has all sorts of goodies. I just used the dictionary search- not a big deal at all.

Something I thought I'd mention- I was only able to post the phonetical representations for the words. The words have better Hebrew transcriptions, but they used characters that couldn't be displayed here.

So, if you have Strong's on that computer program, or if you can bear to open up that book (or just download e-Sword!), I'd recommend looking them up for yourself to get a better representation of the Hebrew.