Lexicon
תֹּ֫אַר
to.ar
H8389
H:N-M Hebrew

appearance

15
Occurrences
9
Books
Hebrew
Language

to.ar denotes outward appearance or visible form, whether attractive, damaged, or used to identify someone or something.

The noun refers to outward appearance or visible form across descriptions of people, animals, and figurative subjects: it can be praised as beautiful, contrasted as poor or marred, or asked about for identification.

Senses in use

  1. Outward appearance and visible form · dominant

    The masculine singular noun describes observable appearance in varied settings. In Genesis 41:18 and Genesis 41:19 the APB renders Pharaoh's contrasting descriptions of cows as beautiful or bad in form; in 1 Samuel 28:14 it renders a question about the figure coming up, and in Lamentations 4:8 it describes an appearance darkened beyond recognition.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the noun's contexts with descriptions such as "beautiful in appearance," "form," and an appearance that has grown dark. Its varying English wording does not consistently isolate the noun's individual contribution.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture