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טוֹב (H2896)

ṭôwb

tobe

from טוֹב; good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well); beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, [idiom] fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, [idiom] most, pleasant, [phrase] pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well(-favoured).

Brown–Driver–Briggs

טוֹב n.m. a good thing, benefit, welfare
1 welfare, prosperity, happiness
2 good things
3 good = benefit
4 moral good
טוֹב adj. pleasant, agreeable, good
1 pleasant, agreeable to the senses
2 pleasant to the higher nature, giving pleasure, happiness, prosperity, and so agreeable, pleasing, well
3 good, excellent, of its kind
4 good, rich, valuable in estimation
5 good, appropriate, becoming
6 c. מִן compar. = better
7 of man's sensuous nature, glad, happy, prosperous
8 of man's intellectual nature, good understanding
9 good, kind, benign
10 good (ethical), right
טוֹבָה n.f. welfare, benefit, good things, good
1 welfare, prosperity, happiness
2 good things
3 bounty, good

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


517 occurrences

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  • Proverbs 25:27
    It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
  • Proverbs 27:5
    Open rebuke is better than secret love.
  • Proverbs 27:10
    Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
  • Proverbs 28:6
    Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
  • Proverbs 28:10
    Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
  • Proverbs 28:21
    To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
  • Proverbs 31:12
    She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
  • Proverbs 31:18
    She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.
  • Ecclesiastes 2:1
    I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
  • Ecclesiastes 2:3
    I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.