Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H8389: תֹּאַר

tôʼar · pronounced to'-ar · “appearance”

Definition

outline, i.e. figure or appearance

KJV translates it as: [phrase] beautiful, [idiom] comely, countenance, [phrase] fair, [idiom] favoured, form, [idiom] goodly, [idiom] resemble, visage.

Word origin: from H8388 (תָּאַר);

Extended definition

shape, form, outline, figure, appearance

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H8389 is translated

  • form ×7
  • appearance ×3
  • his ×2
  • the appearance of ×1
  • shape ×1
  • their ×1

Bible verses with H8389 (tôʼar)

Tôʼar appears in 15 verses.

  • Genesis 29:17

    Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.

  • Genesis 39:6

    And he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.

  • Genesis 41:18

    And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:

  • Genesis 41:19

    And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:

  • Deuteronomy 21:11

    And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

  • Judges 8:18

    Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.

  • 1 Samuel 16:18

    Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth–lehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the Lord is with him.

  • 1 Samuel 25:3

    Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.

  • 1 Samuel 28:14

    And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.

  • 1 Kings 1:6

    And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.

  • Esther 2:7

    And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

  • Isaiah 52:14

    As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

  • Isaiah 53:2

    For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

  • Jeremiah 11:16

    The Lord called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

  • Lamentations 4:8

    Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.