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Strong's #8231 - שָׁפַר
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- to be pleasing, be beautiful, be fair, be comely, be bright, glisten
- (Qal) to be beautiful
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2869) rps (סהפר ShPR) AC: Bright CO: ? AB: ?: A bright or beautiful sight or sound. (eng: spiral - the shape of the rams horn; spring)
V) rps (סהפר ShPR) - Bright: To be cheerful. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (4): (vf: Paal) goodly, good, please, acceptable - Strongs: H8231 (שָׁפַר), H8232 (שְׁפַר)
Nm) rps (סהפר ShPR) - Bright: As cheerful. KJV (1): goodly - Strongs: H8233 (שֶׁפֶר)
bm) rips (סהפיר ShPYR) - Bright: In the sense of being cheerful or beautiful. [Aramaic only] KJV (2): fair - Strongs: H8209 (שַׁפִּיר)
ef1) erpis (סהיפרה ShYPRH) - Bright: As cheerful. KJV (1): garnished - Strongs: H8235 (שִׁפְרָה)
gm) rpfs (סהופר ShWPR) - Horn: The horn of ram made into a trumpet that emits a bright and beautiful ound. KJV (72): trumpet, cornet - Strongs: H7782 (שֹׁפָר)
lm) rprps (סהפרפר ShPRPR) - Dawn: As the beginning of brightness. [Aramaic only] KJV (1): early - Strongs: H8238 (שְׁפַרְפָּר)
ldm) rfrps (סהפרור ShPRWR) - Tapestry: As brightly colored. KJV (1): pavilion - Strongs: H8237 (שַׁפְרִיר)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
remove veil (of women), shine; Aramaic שְׁפַר be pleasing (see Daniel 6:2), 
be beautiful, bright, pleasing, 
beautiful); — Qal Perfect 3 feminine singular שָֽׁפְרָה עָלָ֑י (Aramaic) Psalm 16:6 (the) heritage is beautiful for (pleasing to) me (see עַל II:8).
שָׁפַר
(1) i.q. شفر to scratch, to scrape (cognate to צָפַר, סָפַר); hence to polish.
(2) to be bright, prop. to be polished (compare Arab. سفر I. IV., to shine forth as the dawn, and שְׁפַרְפָּרָא), to be beautiful, i.q. Ch. and Syr. Followed by עַל to please any one, Psalms 16:6, compare Daniel 4:24. The notion of being bright is also applied to brilliancy of sound (compare, on the other hand, הָלַל); whence שׁוֹפָר trumpet.
(3) i.q. Ethiop. safara, to measure; whence אֶשְׁפָּר a measure; which see. (Cogn. is סָפַר No. 3, to number.) As to the passage, Job 26:13, see שִׁפְרָה.
