yafa · shine forth

What it means

yafa (יָפַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “shine forth”.

Shine.

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. To blaze out, gleam; make light appear.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• shine forth ×3
• shine ×2
• has shone forth ×1
• he shone forth ×1
• it shines forth ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Job×4
• Psalms×3

• Deuteronomy 33:2

  And he said, “YHWH came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon them; he shone forth from Mount Paran, and he came from among myriads of holy ones; at his right hand a fire of law for them.

• Job 3:4

  That day, let it be darkness; may Eloah above not seek it, nor brightness shine on it.

• Job 10:3

  Does it seem good to you that you oppress, that you despise the labor of your palms, and shine forth on the counsel of the wicked?

• Job 10:22

  a land of blackness like gloom, of shadow of death and without order, and it shines forth like gloom.”

• Job 37:15

  Do you know when Eloah lays his command upon them, and makes shine the light of his cloud?

• Psalms 50:2

  From Zion, the perfection of beauty, Elohim has shone forth.

• Psalms 80:1

  For the director. On The Lilies of the Testimony. Of Asaph. A psalm. Shepherd of Israel, give ear, you who lead Joseph like a flock; you who sit upon the cherubim, shine forth.

• Psalms 94:1

  El of vengeances, YHWH, El of vengeances, shine forth!