יָפֶה yâpheh — beautiful (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as beautiful, beauty, comely, fair(-est, one), goodly, pleasant, well.
from H3302; beautiful (literally or figuratively).
yâpheh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Perfect (qatal) 1
יָּפ֧וּ Song 7:2 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural
Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›