- Original: טוב
- Transliteration: Towb
- Phonetic: tobe
- Definition:
1. to be good, be pleasing, be joyful, be beneficial, be pleasant, be favourable, be happy, be right
a. (Qal)
1. to be pleasant, be delightful
2. to be glad, be joyful
3. to be better
4. to be well with, be good for
5. to be pleasing
b. (Hiphil) to do well, do good, act right, act rightly
- Origin: a primitive root
- TWOT entry: 793
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
- Strong's: A primitive root to be (transitively do or make) good (or well) in the widest sense: - be (do) better cheer be (do seem) good (make) goodly X please (be do go play) well.
Total KJV Occurrences: 31
• better, 1
Song of Songs 4:10
• good, 5
1 Chronicles 13:2;
Esther 5:4;
Psalm 119:68;
Jeremiah 32:41;
Zechariah 11:12
• goodly, 1
Numbers 24:5
• graciously, 1
Hosea 14:2
• merry, 2
2 Samuel 13:28;
Esther 1:10
• please, 8
Nehemiah 2:5;
Nehemiah 2:7;
Esther 1:19;
Esther 3:9;
Esther 5:8;
Esther 7:3;
Esther 8:5;
Esther 9:13
• pleased, 2
Numbers 24:1;
2 Samuel 3:36
• pleasing, 1
Esther 8:5
• thee, 1
1 Kings 21:2
• well, 9
Numbers 11:18;
Deuteronomy 5:33;
Deuteronomy 19:13;
1 Samuel 16:16;
1 Samuel 16:23;
1 Kings 8:18;
2 Kings 10:30;
2 Chronicles 6:8;
Isaiah 3:10