ya.pheh describes physical attractiveness in people and commendable beauty in animals, vegetation, and other things.

The term most often marks the physical attractiveness of women and men, including beauty of form, appearance, eyes, and bodily wholeness. It also describes attractive or admirable qualities in animals, trees and branches, a voice, and everything made in its time.

1. Physical attractiveness of people · dominant

   Adjective forms describe persons in clauses concerning form, appearance, or bodily features: in Genesis 29:17 the APB renders Rachel as "beautiful in form and beautiful in appearance," and in 2 Samuel 14:25 it describes Absalom from foot to head as without blemish. In Song of Songs 4:7, repeated feminine singular adjective forms occur in direct praise of the companion, whom the APB calls "altogether beautiful."

   Genesis 29:172 Samuel 14:251 Samuel 16:12Esther 2:7Song of Songs 4:1Song of Songs 4:7
2. Attractive quality in things and living forms · common

   The adjective also qualifies nonhuman subjects and broader conditions. In Genesis 41:2 it describes the seven cows alongside their flesh, while Ezekiel 31:3 applies it to a cedar's branch; Ezekiel 33:32 places the construct form with a voice in the comparison to a song. Ecclesiastes 3:11 uses the masculine singular form in the statement that everything has been made beautiful in its time.

   Genesis 41:2Genesis 41:18Ezekiel 31:3Ezekiel 33:32Jeremiah 11:16Ecclesiastes 3:11

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with "beautiful," especially in descriptions of people, but also uses wording such as "handsome appearance" and "lovely" in its translation. These are whole-verse renderings, so these English expressions indicate the clause's presentation rather than a fixed equivalent for each token.