H8209 H8209
Beautiful, fair, attractive in appearance (especially of foliage or trees)
This adjective describes visual beauty and appears exclusively in Daniel's account of Nebuchadnezzar's dream. Both occurrences (4:12, 4:21) describe the magnificent foliage of the great tree in the vision—leaves so beautiful they contribute to the tree's splendor. The term emphasizes aesthetic appeal and flourishing appearance. Its limitation to describing the dream-tree's foliage suggests a specialized or poetic register appropriate to visionary literature.
Senses
1. sense 1 — An adjective of visual beauty applied to the tree's foliage in Nebuchadnezzar's vision. The repeated use in both the dream narration (4:12) and its recounting (4:21) emphasizes the tree's magnificent appearance before its destruction. Spanish 'hermoso' and the consistent 'beautiful' glosses across languages confirm the aesthetic sense. The assignment to Properties/Relations > Nature, Class, Example reflects its descriptive function characterizing natural beauty. 2×
AR["جَمِيلٌ"]·ben["সুন্দর"]·DE["[שפיר]"]·EN["beautiful"]·FR["[שפיר]"]·heb["יפים"]·HI["सुन्दर"]·ID["indah"]·IT["[שפיר]"]·jav["endah"]·KO["아름답고"]·PT["era-bela"]·RU["прекрасны"]·ES["hermoso"]·SW["mazuri"]·TR["güzel"]·urd["خوبصورت", "خوبصورت-تھے"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† שַׁפִּיר adj. fair, beautiful;—of foliage Dn 4:9, 18.