Midvash

טוֹבṭôwb

טוֺב: pleasant, agreeable, good

Pronunciation: tobe · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2896

Meanings

1. pleasant, agreeable to the senses

a. fair (Genesis 6:2; Exodus 2:2; 1 Samuel 9:2)

b. good, sweet, agreeable for eating (Genesis 2:9; Genesis 3:6; Genesis 41:5)

c. sweet-scented, the fragrant cane. (Song of Solomon 1:3; Jeremiah 6:20)

d. pleasant (Hosea 4:13)

2. pleasant to the higher nature, giving pleasure, happiness, prosperity, and so agreeable, pleasing, well

a. good day (1 Samuel 25:8; Esther 8:17; Esther 9:19)

b. the best part of the women's house (Esther 2:9; Deuteronomy 23:17; Genesis 20:15)

c. pleasing in the eyes of (1 Samuel 29:6; 1 Samuel 29:9; Malachi 2:17)

d. good tidings, good report (2 Samuel 18:27; 1 Samuel 2:24; Proverbs 15:30)

e. a pleasant, prosperous journey, how good and how pleasant it is! (1 Samuel 24:20; Genesis 49:15; Psalms 133:1)

f. do what is pleasing in the eyes of, speak either good or bad (Genesis 16:5; Judges 19:24; 1 Samuel 1:23)

3. good, excellent of its kind

a. and God saw that it was good, excellent, all that he had made, and behold it was very excellent. (Genesis 1:4; Genesis 1:10; Genesis 1:12)

b. fruitful, fertile (Exodus 3:8; Numbers 13:19; Numbers 14:7)

c. choice, fruitful (1 Samuel 8:14; 2 Kings 3:19; 2 Kings 3:25)

d. fat (Genesis 18:7; Genesis 27:9; Genesis 41:26)

e. fine, pure (Genesis 2:12; 2 Chronicles 3:5; 2 Chronicles 3:8)

4. good, rich, valuable in estimation

a. good old age (Genesis 15:15; Genesis 25:8; Judges 8:32)

b. goodly, valuable, my goodly precious things. (Leviticus 27:10; Leviticus 27:12; Leviticus 27:14)

5. good, appropriate, becoming (Ecclesiastes 7:18; Ecclesiastes 5:4; Ecclesiastes 7:11)

6. better, with מִן comparative = (Genesis 29:19; Exodus 14:12; Psalms 118:8)

7. glad, happy, prosperous, of man's sensuous nature (Proverbs 15:15; Esther 5:9; Ecclesiastes 9:7)

8. of man's intellectual nature (2 Chronicles 30:22; Psalms 111:10; Proverbs 3:4)

9. good, kind, benign

a. kind words (1 Samuel 25:15; 2 Samuel 18:27; 2 Chronicles 10:7)

b. he is good, kind, kind to (Nahum 1:7; 2 Chronicles 30:18; Psalms 86:5)

10. good, right, (ethical) (Micah 6:8; Job 34:4)

a. the, good (Micah 7:4; Proverbs 14:14; 2 Chronicles 19:11)

טוֺב: a good thing. benefit, welfare

1. welfare, prosperity, happiness (Isaiah 52:7; Jeremiah 8:15; Jeremiah 14:19)

2. good things, (collective) (Psalms 21:4; Proverbs 24:25; Job 22:18)

3. good = benefit (Proverbs 31:12; Proverbs 11:23; Job 2:10)

4. moral good (Genesis 2:9; Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:5)

טוֺבָה: welfare, benefit, good things, good

1. welfare, prosperity, happiness (Deuteronomy 23:7; Jeremiah 33:9; Ezra 9:12)

2. good things, (collective)

b. when good things increase. (Ecclesiastes 5:10)

3. bounty, good (Psalms 65:12; Psalms 68:11; Exodus 18:9)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 538 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 1:31 Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good! And evening passed and morning came, marking the sixth day.
  • Genesis 2:9 The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  • Genesis 2:12 The gold of that land is exceptionally pure; aromatic resin and onyx stone are also found there.
  • Genesis 2:17 except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”
  • Genesis 2:18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”
  • Genesis 3:5 “God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.”
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