תִּפְאָרָה
tiph.a.rah (H8597)
beauty
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# Analysis of תִּפְאָרָה (Tiph'arah) The Hebrew word tiph'arah carries the primary meaning of "beauty," appearing 51 times throughout the biblical text. This frequency suggests the concept held considerable importance in Hebrew thought and expression, though the data provided does not specify particular contexts or grammatical patterns that might refine our understanding of how beauty functions in different passages. The lemma's straightforward definition—beauty—indicates it likely functioned as a general descriptor for aesthetic qualities and perhaps more abstract notions of excellence or magnificence. With over 50 occurrences, the word was evidently integral to how biblical authors discussed visual appeal, splendor, and the qualities that make something or someone worthy of attention or admiration. However, without access to the specific verses or contextual usage patterns in the provided data, the full range of applications—whether referring to physical appearance, divine glory, human accomplishment, or other dimensions of beauty—cannot be determined from the lexicon entry alone. The presence of this word across the biblical corpus underscores that aesthetic and magnificence concepts were not peripheral to ancient Hebrew expression but rather significant enough to warrant repeated use. What remains unclear from this basic entry is whether tiph'arah maintained a consistent meaning across different time periods or literary genres, or whether its usage evolved or varied in ways that modern readers should consider when encountering it in translation
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You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.
“You shall make tunics for Aaron’s sons. You shall make sashes for them. You shall make headbands for them, for glory and for beauty.
He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
She said, “I will surely go with you. Nevertheless, the journey that you take won’t be for your honor; for Yahweh will sell Sisera into a woman’s hand.” Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
David said, “Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries. I will therefore make preparation for it.” So David prepared abundantly before his death.
Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.
Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name.
He decorated the house with precious stones for beauty. The gold was gold from Parvaim.
He displayed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even one hundred eighty days.
and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.
For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.
Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you.”
Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.
Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair.
When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces,
In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.
Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.
Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!
The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.
In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the residue of his people,
The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to reside in a house.
I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.
Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.
All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you. The rams of Nebaioth will serve you. They will be accepted as offerings on my altar; and I will beautify my glorious house.
The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
You will also be a crown of beauty in Yahweh‘s hand, and a royal diadem in your God’s hand.
Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand? Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
As the livestock that go down into the valley, Yahweh’s Spirit caused them to rest. So you led your people to make yourself a glorious name.
Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised you is burned with fire. All our pleasant places are laid waste.
For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to me,’ says Yahweh; ‘that they may be to me for a people, for a name, for praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.’
Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your crowns have come down, even the crown of your glory.
Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your beautiful flock?
This city will be to me for a name of joy, for praise, and for glory, before all the nations of the earth, which will hear all the good that I do to them, and will fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I provide to it.’ ”
All you who are around him, bemoan him, and all you who know his name; say, ‘How the strong staff is broken, the beautiful rod!’
How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth, and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them.
I will also give you into their hand, and they will throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places. They will strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels. They will leave you naked and bare.
They will also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.
“The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. With men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.
“You, son of man, shouldn’t it be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,
Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of David’s house and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.