toar · form

What it means

toar (תֹּאַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “form”.

Figure, the shape of the body; appearance.

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. How a person looks: their body and bearing, beautiful or ugly.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• form ×10
• appearance ×3
• fine figure ×1
• well-built ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×1
• Esther×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×1

• Genesis 29:17

  Leah’s eyes were tender, but Rachel was beautiful in form and beautiful in appearance.

• Genesis 39:6

  He left all that he had in the hand of Joseph, and with him there he did not concern himself with anything except the bread that he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome.

• Genesis 41:18

  and look, from the Nile there came up seven cows, fat in flesh and beautiful in form, and they grazed in the reed grass.

• Genesis 41:19

  And look, seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly in form and lean in flesh; I have never seen any like them in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.

• Deuteronomy 21:11

  and you see among the captives a woman beautiful in form, and you become attached to her and would take her for yourself as a wife,

• Judges 8:18

  He said to Zebah and to Zalmunna, “Where are the men whom you killed at Tabor?” They said, “As you are, so were they, each one like the appearance of the sons of a king.”

• 1 Samuel 16:18

  One of the young men answered and said, “Look, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who knows how to play, and a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and discerning in speech, and a man of fine figure; and YHWH is with him.”

• 1 Samuel 25:3

  The name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was of good understanding and beautiful in form, but the man was harsh and evil in his deeds; he was a Calebite.

• 1 Samuel 28:14

  He said to her, “What is his appearance?” She said, “An old man is coming up, and he is wrapped in a robe.” Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground and prostrated himself.

• 1 Kings 1:6

  His father had never grieved him by saying, “Why have you done so?” He too was very handsome in form, and his mother had borne him after Absalom.

• Esther 2:7

  And he was bringing up Hadassah, that is, Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had no father or mother; and the young woman was of beautiful form and of good appearance; and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.

• Isaiah 52:14

  Just as many were astonished at you —so disfigured, beyond that of a man, was his appearance, and his form, beyond that of human beings—

• Isaiah 53:2

  And he grew up like a young shoot before him, and like a root from a dry land; he had no form nor majesty that we should look at him, nor appearance that we should desire him.

• Jeremiah 11:16

  A flourishing olive tree, beautiful in fruit and in form, YHWH called your name; with the noise of a great roar he has set fire to it, and its branches are broken.

• Lamentations 4:8

  Darker than soot has their appearance become; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has dried up, it has become like wood.