yofi · beauty

What it means

yofi (יֳפִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “beauty”.

Loveliness.

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 that is seen and admired in a person or a city.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Esther×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×2
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×10
• Zechariah×1

• Esther 1:11

  to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the peoples and the officials her beauty; for she was of good appearance.

• Psalms 45:11

  and the king will desire your beauty; for he is your lord; bow down to him.

• Psalms 50:2

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

• Proverbs 6:25

  Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her take you with her eyelids.

• Proverbs 31:30

  Deceptive is grace, and a vapor is beauty; a woman who fears YHWH, she will be praised.

• Isaiah 3:24

  And it will happen that instead of balsam there will be rot, and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of the work of hairdressing, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a binding of sackcloth; a burn instead of beauty.

• Isaiah 33:17

  A king in his beauty your eyes will gaze on; they will see a land of far distances.

• Lamentations 2:15

  They clap their hands at you, all who pass by on the road; they hiss and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that they called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth’?”

• Ezekiel 16:14

  And your name went out among the nations because of your beauty, for it was complete through my splendor that I had set upon you, declares Adonai YHWH.

• Ezekiel 16:15

  But you trusted in your beauty and prostituted yourself because of your name, and poured out your prostitutions on everyone passing by; his it was.

• Ezekiel 16:25

  At the head of every road you built your lofty place, and made your beauty abominable, and spread your legs to everyone passing by, and multiplied your prostitutions.

• Ezekiel 27:3

  and say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrances of the sea, trader of the peoples to many coastlands: ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Tyre, you have said, “I am perfection of beauty.”

• Ezekiel 27:4

  In the heart of the seas are your borders; your builders perfected your beauty.

• Ezekiel 27:11

  The sons of Arvad and your army were on your walls all around, and the Gammadites were in your towers; their shields they hung on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty.

• Ezekiel 28:7

  therefore, look, I am bringing against you strangers, the terrible ones of the nations; and they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and profane your splendor.

• Ezekiel 28:12

  “Son of man, raise a dirge over the king of Tyre, and say to him: ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: You were the seal of proportion, full of wisdom and perfection of beauty.

• Ezekiel 28:17

  Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor; to the ground I cast you; before kings I set you that they may gaze at you as a spectacle.

• Ezekiel 31:8

  The cedars did not eclipse it in the garden of Elohim; the cypresses did not resemble its boughs, and the plane trees were not like its foliage; no tree in the garden of Elohim resembled it in its beauty.

• Zechariah 9:17

  For how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine will make flourish the virgins.