- Original: יפה - Transliteration: Yaphah - Phonetic: yaw-faw' - Definition: 1. to be bright, be beautiful, be handsome, be fair a. (Qal) to be beautiful b. (Piel) to beautify c. (Pual) to be beautiful d. (Hithpael) to beautify oneself - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 890 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; properly to be bright that is (by implication) beautiful: - be beautiful be (make self) fair (-r) deck. Total KJV Occurrences: 8 • beautiful, 2 Song of Songs 7:1; Ezekiel 16:13 • deck, 1 Jeremiah 10:4 • fair, 4 Song of Songs 4:10; Song of Songs 7:6; Jeremiah 4:30; Ezekiel 31:7 • fairer, 1 Psalm 45:2