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Strong's #3302 - יָפָה
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- to be bright, be beautiful, be handsome, be fair
- (Qal) to be beautiful
- (Piel) to beautify
- (Pual) to be beautiful
- (Hithpael) to beautify oneself
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1224) pi (יפ YP) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Beauty
A) pi (יפ YP) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Beauty: A place, thing or event that goes beyond the normal such as a miracle, sign, wonder or beauty.
fm) ipi (יפי YPY) - Beauty: KJV (19): beauty - Strongs: H3308 (יֳפִי)
H) epi (יפה YPH) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Beauty: A place, thing or event that goes beyond the normal such as a miracle, sign, wonder or beauty.
V) epi (יפה YPH) - Beautiful: To be beautiful. KJV (8): (vf: Paal, Hitpael, Pual, Piel) fair, beautiful - Strongs: H3302 (יָפָה)
Nm) epi (יפה YPH) - Beauty: KJV (42): fair, beautiful, well, beauty - Strongs: H3303 (יָפֶה), H3304 (יְפֵה־פִיָּה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
is suffice, finish, fail; compare Aramaic 
(PS3015) beautiful, fit, Nö§ 172c. Anm. G H[offmann] LCB1882,321. Arabic 
fulfil, perform; Ethiopic 
II. 2 give (entirely) over to, into power of, Di349) —
Qal Perfect יָפִיתְ Song of Solomon 7:7; יָפוּ Song of Solomon 4:10; Song of Solomon 7:2 Imperfect 2 feminine singular וַתִּ֫יפִי (Kö Lgh. i. 581) Ezekiel 16:13; 3 masculine singular with apocope וַיִּיף Ezekiel 31:7; — be beautiful, subject person Song of Solomon 4:10; Song of Solomon 7:7; of feet Song of Solomon 7:2; of Jerusalem under figure of woman Ezekiel 16:13; Egypt under figure of tree Ezekiel 31:7.
Pi`el Imperfect 3 masculine singular suffix יְיַמֵּ֑הוּ Jeremiah 10:4 beautify an idol. The (
Pe`al`al ?) Perfect form אָדָם יָפְיָפִיתָ מִבְּנֵי Psalm 45:3 is contrary to all analogues: read either יָפִיתָ or יְפֵיפִיתָ Ges § 55. 3 Sta§ 156 R Now (Kö i. 583f. defence is artificial): thou art more beautiful than, etc.
Hithpa`el Imperfect 2 feminine singular תִּתְיַמִּי beautify thyself Jeremiah 4:30.
יָפָה fut. יִיפֶה, וַיִּיף
(1) properly to shine, to be bright, cogn. root יָפַע, compare יָגַע وجع and יָנָה. Hence יֳפִי No. 1, and מוֹפֵת an illustrious deed, a miracle.
(2) to be beautiful, used of a woman, Song of Solomon 4:10, 7:2, Ezekiel 16:13 of a tree, 31:7.
Piel, to make beautiful, to adorn, to deck (with gold), Jeremiah 10:4.
Pual, with the two first radicals doubled יָפְיָפָה to be very beautiful, Psalms 45:3. But this form is altogether without analogy, nor is there any example found of first radicals which are doubled; examples of doubling the latter radicals, such as סְחַרְחַר, can hardly be compared with this, since this latter usage, instead of increasing the signification, diminishes it. To give my own opinion, I think that an error may exist in this word, and that the letters יפ at the beginning may be spurious, as having arisen from the practice of copyists; of this, which has been a constant source of errors, I have treated in Thes. i. p. 64; Anecdd. Orient. i. 68.
Hithpael, to adorn oneself (of a woman), Jeremiah 4:30.
Derivatives, besides those which follow next, יְפִי, יֳפִי, and probably מוֹפֵת.
