Strong's #4315: meytab (pronounced may-tawb')

from 3190; the best part:--best.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

mêyṭâb

1) the best

1a) as superlative

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H3190

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Genesis 47:6: "The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren"
Genesis 47:11: "them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as"
Exodus 22:5: "and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution."
Exodus 22:5: "field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution."
1 Samuel 15:9: "and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings,"
1 Samuel 15:15: "them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen,"