Topic
Fair
10 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Job 37:2ISBE
Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
- Proverbs 7:21ISBE
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
- Isaiah 54:11ISBE
¶ O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
- Zechariah 3:5ISBE
And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 6:5ISBE
Sweet language will multiply friends: and a fairspeaking tongue will increase kind greetings.
- Matthew 16:2ISBE
He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
- Acts 7:20ISBE
In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months:
- Romans 16:18ISBE
For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
- Galatians 6:12ISBE
As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
- Hebrews 11:23ISBE
By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 11 references
far: The word translated in the King James Version from 9 Hebrew and 4 Greek expressions has nowhere in the Bible the modern sense of "blond," "fair-skinned." The translation of Isa 54:11, "fair colors," refers to the cosmetic use of pukh, stibium, antimony powder, with which black margins were painted around the eyelids, so as to make the eyes appear large and dark. The stones of rebuilt Jerusalem, beautifully laid in their black mortar, are compared with such eyes. We can distinguish the following varieties of meaning:
(1) Beautiful, attractive, Tobh, yaphah, yapheh; Aramaic shappir; Septuagint kalos; in the New Testament asteios. This latter word is in both places where it is found used of Moses (Ac 7:20; Heb 11:23, the Revised Version (British and American) "goodly"), and means literally, town bred (as opposed to boorish), polite, polished in manners, urbane, then nice, pretty.
(2) Pure, free of defilement, the Revised Version (British and American) "clean," Tahor (Zec 3:5).
(3) "Fair speech," plausible, persuasive (leqah, Pr 7:21; eulalos, Sirach 6:5; compare eulogia, Ro 16:18).
(4) Making a fine display (euprosopein, Ga 6:12, "to make a fair show").
(5) Good (of weather) (zahabh, "golden," "clear," Job 37:2,2, the Revised Version (British and American) "golden splendor"); eudia (Mt 16:2).
H. L. E. Luering
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.