What does תִּפְאָרָה (tipĕʾārāh) mean in the Bible?
תִּפְאָרָה (tipĕʾārāh): Beauty radiating outward as visible splendor; the honor and majesty that commands attention and respect.
Ornament (abstractly or concretely, literally or figuratively)
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תִּפְאָרָה (tipĕʾārāh): Beauty radiating outward as visible splendor; the honor and majesty that commands attention and respect.
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תִּפְאָרָה (tipĕʾārāh): Beauty radiating outward as visible splendor; the honor and majesty that commands attention and respect.
The BSB source-word alignment has 51 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include The glory (4), and glory (3), and beautiful (2), and glorious (2), and splendor (2).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Exodus 28:2. Its strongest book concentrations include Isaiah (18), Ezekiel (6), Proverbs (6), Jeremiah (5).
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Hebrew word. Beauty radiating outward as visible splendor; the honor and majesty that commands attention and respect.
Beauty radiating outward as visible splendor; the honor and majesty that commands attention and respect.
ornament (abstractly or concretely, literally or figuratively) BDB: beauty Usage: beauty(-iful), bravery, comely, fair, glory(-ious), honour, majesty.
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תִּפְאָרָה is built from this root:
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