Lovely
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"pleasing, agreeable, lovely" (pros, "toward," phileo, "to love"), occurs in Philippians 4:8 . In the Sept., Esther 5:1 (3rd sentence).
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( superl.) Having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to excite, love; beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.
(2): ( adv.) In a manner to please, or to excite love.
(3): ( superl.) Lovable; amiable; having qualities of any kind which excite, or are fitted to excite, love or friendship.
(4): ( superl.) Loving; tender.
(5): ( superl.) Very pleasing; - applied loosely to almost anything which is not grand or merely pretty; as, a lovely view; a lovely valley; a lovely melody.
King James Dictionary [3]
Lovely a. luv'ly. Amiable that may excite love possessing qualities which may invite affection.
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives - 2 Samuel 1 .
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
luv´li ( אהב , 'āhabh , אהב , 'āhēbh ; προσφιλής , prosphilḗs ): "Lovely" occurs only 4 times. In 2 Samuel 1:23 it is the translation of 'āhēbh , "to be loved" ("Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant (the King James Version margin "sweet") in their lives"), where it seems to mean "loving" or "lovable." Two other words are so translated in the Old Testament: maḥmādh , "desire" a "desirable thing" ( Song of Solomon 5:16 , "He is altogether lovely," that is, "lovable," "to be desired," literally, "all of him lovableness," or "desirableness"); ‛ăghābhı̄m "loves," or "charms" ( Ezekiel 33:32 , "Thou art unto them as a very lovely song," the King James Version margin "a song of loves," the Revised Version margin "a love-song"; in 33:31 the same word is translated "much love," the King James Version margin "They make loves or jests"); in Philippians 4:8 we have prosphilēs , "very lovely," or "lovable," "whatsoever things are lovely."
