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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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  • Amos 5:14
    Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
  • Amos 5:15
    Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
  • Amos 6:2
    Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
  • Amos 9:4
    And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
  • Jonah 4:3
    Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
  • Jonah 4:8
    And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
  • Micah 1:12
    For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
  • Micah 3:2
    Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
  • Micah 6:8
    He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
  • Micah 7:4
    The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.