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Strong's #2896: towb (pronounced tobe)

from 2895; 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, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ((-favoured)).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ṭôb

1) good, pleasant, agreeable (adjective)

1a) pleasant, agreeable (to the senses)

1b) pleasant (to the higher nature)

1c) good, excellent (of its kind)

1d) good, rich, valuable in estimation

1e) good, appropriate, becoming

1f) better (comparative)

1g) glad, happy, prosperous (of man' s sensuous nature)

1h) good understanding (of man' s intellectual nature)

1i) good, kind, benign

1j) good, right (ethical)

2) a good thing, benefit, welfare (noun masculine)

2a) welfare, prosperity, happiness

2b) good things (collective)

2c) good, benefit

2d) moral good

3) welfare, benefit, good things (noun feminine)

3a) welfare, prosperity, happiness

3b) good things (collective)

3c) bounty

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: from H2895



Usage:

This word is used 553 times:

Jeremiah 29:32: "this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do"
Jeremiah 32:39: "way, me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after"
Jeremiah 32:42: "upon them all the good that I have promised"
Jeremiah 33:9: "shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear"
Jeremiah 33:9: "and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that"
Jeremiah 33:11: "of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth forever: and of them that shall bring"
Jeremiah 33:14: "the LORD, that good thing which I have promised unto"
Jeremiah 39:16: "city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before"
Jeremiah 40:4: "were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon,"
Jeremiah 40:4: "forbear: behold, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good"
Jeremiah 42:6: "Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey of the LORD our God,"
Jeremiah 44:17: "of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw"
Jeremiah 44:27: "over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that"
Jeremiah 52:32: "And spoke kindly unto him, and set above"
Lamentations 3:17: "And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity."
Lamentations 3:25: "The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh"
Lamentations 3:26: " It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD."
Lamentations 3:27: " It is good for a man that he bear the yoke"
Lamentations 3:38: "of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?"
Lamentations 4:1: "How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold the stones of the sanctuary"
Lamentations 4:9: "They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain for these"
Ezekiel 17:8: "It was planted in a good soil great waters,"
Ezekiel 18:18: "and did that which is not good among his people, lo,"
Ezekiel 20:25: "them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;"
Ezekiel 24:4: "the pieces thereof into it, even every good the thigh, and the shoulder; fill"
Ezekiel 31:16: "into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all"
Ezekiel 34:14: "I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains shall their fold be:"
Ezekiel 34:14: "be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed"
Ezekiel 34:18: "Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, with your feet the residue"
Ezekiel 36:31: "and your doings were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities"
Daniel 1:4: "in whom was no blemish, but well favored, in all"
Daniel 1:15: "of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than"
Hosea 2:7: "husband; for then was it better with me than now."
Hosea 4:13: "and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom,"
Hosea 8:3: "Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue"
Hosea 10:1: "of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images."
Joel 3:5: "and my gold, and have carried my goodly pleasant things:"
Amos 5:14: "Seek good, and not evil, that and so the LORD,"
Amos 5:15: "Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish in the gate: it may be"
Amos 6:2: "the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms?"
Amos 9:4: "mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good."
Jonah 4:3: "from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
Jonah 4:8: "himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live."
Micah 1:12: "the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: evil came down from"
Micah 3:2: "Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off from off"
Micah 6:8: "He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what require of"
Micah 7:4: " The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day and thy visitation"
Nahum 1:7: "The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; them that trust"
Nahum 3:4: "Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well favored harlot, the mistress"
Zechariah 1:13: "the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words."









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