Amiable
Amiable
ami-a-bl (, yedhdh, beloved): Applied to the tabernacle or tent of meeting How amiable (lovely the Revised Version, margin) are thy tabernacles (Psa 84:1), the plural having reference to the subdivisions and appurtenances of the sanctuary (compare Psa 68:35). The adjective is rendered amiable in the sense of the French amiable, lovely; but the usage of the Hebrew word requires it to be understood as meaning dear, beloved. Compare so amiable a prospect (Sir T. Herbert), They keep their churches so cleanly and amiable (Howell, 1644). What made the tabernacle of Moses lovely was not the outside, which was very mean, but what was within (John Gill). See TABERNACLE.