Keren-Happuch

Ke’ren-hap’puch. (the horn of beauty). The youngest of the daughters of Job, born to him during the period of his reviving prosperity. Job 42:14.

Job’s youngest daughter, born in his renewed prosperity ("horn of antimony"), the pigment used by Eastern ladies to darken their eyelashes, that the eye might shine more lustrous (Job 42:14). In contrast to his "horn defiled in the dust" (Job 16:15).

KEREN-HAPPUCH (lit. ‘horn of antimony’).—The youngest daughter born to Job in his second estate of prosperity (Job 42:14). The name is indicative of beautiful eyes, from the dye made of antimony, used to tinge the eyelashes (2Ki 9:30, Jer 4:30).

ker´en-hap´uk, kē´ren-hap´uk (הפּוּך קרן, ḳeren happūkh, “horn of antimony,” i.e. beautifier; Septuagint Ἀμαλθείας κέρας, Amaltheı̄as kéras): The 3rd daughter of Job (Job 42:14), born after his restoration from affliction. Antimony, producing a brilliant black, was used among the Orientals for coloring the edges of the eyelids, making the eyes large and lustrous. Hence, the suggestiveness of this name of an article of the ladies’ toilet, a little horn or receptacle for the eye-paint.