- Original: שׁפר - Transliteration: Shaphar - Phonetic: shaw-far' - Definition: 1. to be pleasing, be beautiful, be fair, be comely, be bright, glisten a. (Qal) to be beautiful - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 2449 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to glisten that is (figuratively) be (causatively make) fair: - X goodly. Total KJV Occurrences: 1 • goodly, 1 Psalm 16:6