perfection
mikh.lal describes Zion in Psalm 50:2 as the construct expression associated with beauty as God shines forth.
In Psalm 50:2, the construct noun occurs in the description of Zion alongside beauty as God shines forth; the single context supports a sense of completed or exemplary beauty, though the term's precise contribution cannot be fully isolated from the translation.
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Exemplary beauty in Zion's description · dominant
In Psalm 50:2, the masculine singular construct form occurs in the phrase describing Zion in connection with beauty before the statement that God has shone forth. The APB renders the clause, "From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth,".
In the Anselm Project Bible: In Psalm 50:2, the APB presents the phrase as "the perfection of beauty." The lemma's individual English rendering remains partly uncertain.