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טוֹב

tovpleasantHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentAdjective562 occurrences35 books519 verses

Definition

from H2895; 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)
Traditional renderings: beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, × fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, × most, pleasant, pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well(-favoured).

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders טוֹב:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

562 total
  1. Leviticus 27:33ט֥וֹב · whether it is good
    He must not inspect whether it is good or bad, and he shall not make any substitution. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute shall become holy; they cannot be redeemed.’”
  2. Numbers 10:29ט֖וֹב · good
    Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”
  3. Numbers 10:32הַטּ֣וֹב · good things
    If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”
  4. Numbers 13:19הֲטוֹבָ֥ה · good
    Is the land where they live good or bad? Are the cities where they dwell open camps or fortifications?
  5. Numbers 14:3ט֦וֹב · be better
    Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
  6. Numbers 14:7טוֹבָ֥ה · good
    …and said to the whole congregation of Israel, “The land we passed through and explored is an exceedingly good land.
  7. Numbers 24:13טוֹבָ֛ה · good
    …that even if Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the LORD? I must speak whatever the LORD says.
  8. Numbers 36:6לַטּ֥וֹב · anyone they please
    This is what the LORD has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: They may marry anyone they please, provided they marry within a clan of the tribe of their father.
  9. Deuteronomy 1:14טֽוֹב־ · is good
    And you answered me and said, “What you propose to do is good.”
  10. Deuteronomy 1:25טוֹבָ֣ה · It is a good
    They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
  11. Deuteronomy 1:35הַטּוֹבָ֔ה · the good
    “Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,
  12. Deuteronomy 1:39ט֣וֹב · good
    And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.
  13. Deuteronomy 3:25הַטּוֹבָ֔ה · the good; הַטּ֛וֹב · pleasant
    Please let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that pleasant hill country as well as Lebanon!”
  14. Deuteronomy 4:21הַטּוֹבָ֔ה · the good
    The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
  15. Deuteronomy 4:22הַטּוֹבָ֖ה · good
    For I will not be crossing the Jordan, because I must die in this land. But you shall cross over and take possession of that good land.
  16. Deuteronomy 6:10וְטֹבֹ֖ת · and splendid
    And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,
  17. Deuteronomy 6:18וְהַטּ֖וֹב · and good; הַטֹּבָ֔ה · the good
    Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,
  18. Deuteronomy 6:24לְט֥וֹב · that we may always be prosperous
    And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, that we may always be prosperous and preserved, as we are to this day.
  19. Deuteronomy 8:7טוֹבָ֑ה · a good
    For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
  20. Deuteronomy 8:10הַטֹּבָ֖ה · the good
    When you eat and are satisfied, you are to bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has given you.
  21. Deuteronomy 8:12טוֹבִ֛ים · fine
    Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
  22. Deuteronomy 9:6הַטּוֹבָ֛ה · good
    Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
  23. Deuteronomy 10:13לְט֖וֹב · for your own good
    …and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD that I am giving you this day for your own good?
  24. Deuteronomy 11:17הַטֹּבָ֔ה · the good
    …or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.
  25. Deuteronomy 12:28הַטּ֣וֹב · what is good
    Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
  26. Deuteronomy 19:13וְט֥וֹב · that it may go well
    You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with you.
  27. Deuteronomy 23:6וְטֹבָתָ֑ם · or prosperity from them
    You are not to seek peace or prosperity from them as long as you live.
  28. Deuteronomy 23:16בַּטּ֣וֹב · of his pleasing
    Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.
  29. Deuteronomy 26:11הַטּ֗וֹב · the good
    So you shall rejoice—you, the Levite, and the foreigner dwelling among you—in all the good things the LORD your God has given to you and your household.
  30. Deuteronomy 28:11לְטוֹבָ֔ה · abundantly
    The LORD will make you prosper abundantly—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land—in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
  31. Deuteronomy 28:12הַטּ֜וֹב · His abundant
    The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.
  32. Deuteronomy 30:9לְטוֹבָ֑ה; לְט֔וֹב · your prosperity
    So the LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your prosperity, as He delighted in that of your fathers,
  33. Deuteronomy 30:15הַטּ֑וֹב · and prosperity
    See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, as well as death and disaster.
  34. Joshua 7:21טוֹבָ֜ה · beautiful
    When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
  35. Joshua 9:25כַּטּ֨וֹב · good
    Now we are in your hands. Do to us whatever seems good and right to you.”
  36. Joshua 21:45הַטּ֔וֹב · good
    Not one of all the LORD’s good promises to the house of Israel had failed; everything was fulfilled.
  37. Joshua 23:13הַטּוֹבָה֙ · good
    …know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.
  38. Joshua 23:14הַטּוֹבִ֗ים · of the good
    Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.
  39. Joshua 23:15הַטּ֔וֹב · good; הַטּוֹבָה֙ · good
    But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.
  40. Joshua 23:16הַטּוֹבָ֔ה · this good
    If you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from this good land He has given you.”
  41. Judges 8:2ט֛וֹב · better
    But Gideon answered them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?
  42. Judges 8:32טוֹבָ֑ה · at a ripe
    Later, Gideon son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
  43. Judges 8:35הַטּוֹבָ֔ה · the good things
    They did not show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) for all the good things he had done for Israel.
  44. Judges 9:2טּ֣וֹב · Is it better
    “Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and blood.”
  45. Judges 9:11הַטּוֹבָ֑ה · and my good
    But the fig tree replied, ‘Should I stop giving my sweetness and my good fruit, to hold sway over the trees?’
  46. Judges 9:16טוֹבָ֤ה
    Now if you have acted faithfully and honestly in making Abimelech king, if you have done well by Jerubbaal and his family, and if you have done to him as he deserves—