tifara · beauty, glory

What it means

tifara (תִּפְאָרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “beauty, glory”.

Beauty, splendor; what someone takes pride in.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Beauty and splendor seen in something or someone.
2. The glory or honor of the one who stands out.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Beauty, splendor: what gives beauty and honor to someone or something, what one can take pride in.

• Garments “for honor and for beauty” Exodus 28:2Exodus 28:40
• “A crown of beauty” Proverbs 16:31Isaiah 62:3
• The beauty of YHWH and of his house 1 Chronicles 29:11Isaiah 60:7Isaiah 63:15
• Israel, set for beauty Deuteronomy 26:19Jeremiah 13:11
• The beauty of the jewels that are removed Isaiah 3:18Ezekiel 16:17

Historical and cultural background

Aaron’s garments were made “for honor and for beauty” (Exodus 28:2). Proverbs 20:29 says: “The beauty of young men {is} their strength”.

How we translate it

“Beauty” 45 times, in almost every context, so that the word can be recognized. When it means the glory someone gains by a deed it is rendered “honor” (3: “the honor will not be yours”, Judges 4:9), and “splendor” 3 (in Esther 1:4, of the Persian king, “the honor of the splendor of his greatness”).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• beauty ×45
• honor ×3
• splendor ×3

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Chronicles×3
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Esther×1
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×6
• Isaiah×18
• Jeremiah×5
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×6
• Zechariah×2

• Exodus 28:2

  You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for honor and for beauty.

• Exodus 28:40

  For the sons of Aaron you shall make tunics, and you shall make for them sashes, and caps you shall make for them, for honor and for beauty.

• Deuteronomy 26:19

  and to set you high above all the nations that he has made, for praise and for renown and for beauty, and that you will be a holy people to YHWH your Elohim, as he has spoken.

• Judges 4:9

  She said, “I will certainly go with you; only, the honor will not be yours on the road on which you are going, for into the hand of a woman YHWH will sell Sisera.” Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.

• 1 Chronicles 22:5

  David said, “Solomon my son is a youth and tender, and the house that is to be built for YHWH must be made great exceedingly, for renown and for beauty in all the lands. Let me now prepare it for him.” So David prepared in abundance before his death.

• 1 Chronicles 29:11

  Yours, YHWH, are the greatness and the might and the beauty and the eminence and the splendor, for all that is in the heavens and on the earth is yours. Yours, YHWH, is the kingdom, and you are the one who exalts himself as head over all.

• 1 Chronicles 29:13

  And now, our Elohim, we give thanks to you and praise the name of your beauty.

• 2 Chronicles 3:6

  He overlaid the house with precious stone for beauty; and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

• Esther 1:4

  while he showed the riches of the glory of his kingdom and the honor of the splendor of his greatness for many days, a hundred and eighty days.

• Psalms 71:8

  Let my mouth be filled with your praise, all the day with your beauty.

• Psalms 78:61

  And he gave to captivity his strength, and his beauty into the hand of the adversary.

• Psalms 89:17

  For the beauty of their strength are you, and by your favor our horn is exalted.

• Psalms 96:6

  Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

• Proverbs 4:9

  She will place on your head a garland of favor; a crown of beauty she will present to you.”

• Proverbs 16:31

  A crown of beauty is gray hair; in the way of righteousness it is found.

• Proverbs 17:6

  The crown of the old are the sons of their sons, and the beauty of sons are their fathers.

• Proverbs 19:11

  The prudence of a man makes him slow to anger, and his beauty is to pass over a transgression.

• Proverbs 20:29

  The beauty of young men is their strength, and the majesty of the old is gray hair.

• Proverbs 28:12

  When the righteous rejoice, great is the splendor, but when the wicked rise, people are sought out.

• Isaiah 3:18

  On that day Adonai will remove the beauty of the anklets, and the hairnets and the crescents;

• Isaiah 4:2

  On that day the sprout of YHWH will be an ornament and glory, and the fruit of the land will be loftiness and beauty for the escaped of Israel.

• Isaiah 10:12

  And it will happen when Adonai has finished all his work on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, that I will punish the fruit of the greatness of heart of the king of Assyria and the beauty of the height of his eyes.

• Isaiah 13:19

  And Babylon, the ornament of kingdoms, the beauty of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be like the overthrow by Elohim of Sodom and Gomorrah.

• Isaiah 20:5

  And they will be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush, their hope, and because of Egypt, their beauty.

• Isaiah 28:1

  Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower, the adornment of its beauty, which is on the head of the valley of fatness of those struck down by wine!

• Isaiah 28:4

  And the fading flower, the adornment of its beauty, which is on the head of the valley of fatness, will be like an early fig before the summer, which the one who sees sees it, and while it is still in his hand he swallows it.

• Isaiah 28:5

  On that day YHWH Tsevaot will be a crown of adornment and a diadem of beauty for the remnant of his people,

• Isaiah 44:13

  The craftsman of wood stretches out a line; he marks it out with a stylus; he makes it with planes, and with the compass he marks it out, and makes it like the figure of a man, like the beauty of a human being, to dwell in a house.

• Isaiah 46:13

  I have brought near my righteousness; it will not be far off, and my salvation will not delay; and I will put in Zion salvation, for Israel my beauty.”

• Isaiah 52:1

  Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your garments of beauty, Jerusalem, the holy city; for never again will there come into you the uncircumcised or the unclean.

• Isaiah 60:7

  All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth will serve you; they will go up with favor on my altar, and the house of my beauty I will beautify.

• Isaiah 60:19

  The sun will no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness will the moon give you light; but YHWH will be your eternal light, and your Elohim will be your beauty.

• Isaiah 62:3

  And you will be a crown of beauty in the hand of YHWH, and a royal turban in the palm of your Elohim.

• Isaiah 63:12

  who made it go at the right hand of Moses, the arm of his beauty; who split the waters before them to make for himself an eternal name;

• Isaiah 63:14

  Like livestock that goes down into the valley, the spirit of YHWH gave them rest; so you led your people, to make for yourself a name of beauty.

• Isaiah 63:15

  Look from the heavens and see, from the residence of your holiness and of your beauty. Where are your zeal and your mighty deeds? The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion toward me have been restrained.

• Isaiah 64:11

  The house of our holiness and of our beauty, where our fathers praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our desirable things have become a ruin.

• Jeremiah 13:11

  For as the belt clings to the loins of a man, so I made cling to me all the house of Israel and all the house of Judah, declares YHWH, to be to me a people, and a name and praise and beauty; but they did not listen.

• Jeremiah 13:18

  Say to the king and to the lady: “Humble yourselves, sit down, for from your heads has come down the crown of your beauty.”

• Jeremiah 13:20

  Lift up your eyes and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, the sheep of your beauty?

And 11 more times.