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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:

Leviticus 27:33: "He shall not search whether it be good or bad, shall he change it: and if"
Numbers 10:29: "for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel."
Numbers 10:32: "with us, yea, it shall be, goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do"
Numbers 13:19: "they dwell be good or bad; and what cities"
Numbers 14:3: "should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?"
Numbers 14:7: "we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land."
Numbers 24:13: "the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind;"
Numbers 36:6: "of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family"
Deuteronomy 1:14: "The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do."
Deuteronomy 1:25: "us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD"
Deuteronomy 1:35: "generation see that good land, which I swore to give"
Deuteronomy 1:39: "which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in"
Deuteronomy 3:25: "let me go over, and see the good that is beyond Jordan,"
Deuteronomy 3:25: "is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon."
Deuteronomy 4:21: "Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD"
Deuteronomy 4:22: "and possess that good land."
Deuteronomy 6:10: "and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,"
Deuteronomy 6:18: "And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in"
Deuteronomy 6:18: "with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore"
Deuteronomy 6:24: "the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this"
Deuteronomy 8:7: "thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water,"
Deuteronomy 8:10: "the LORD for the good land which he hath given"
Deuteronomy 8:12: "when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly and dwelt"
Deuteronomy 9:6: "this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for"
Deuteronomy 10:13: "I command thee this day for thy good?"
Deuteronomy 11:17: "and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD"
Deuteronomy 12:28: "thee forever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD"
Deuteronomy 15:16: "thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with"
Deuteronomy 23:6: "Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all forever."
Deuteronomy 23:16: "in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress"
Deuteronomy 26:11: "And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD hath given unto thee, and unto thine house,"
Deuteronomy 28:11: "And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, of thy cattle, and in the fruit"
Deuteronomy 28:12: "The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give"
Deuteronomy 30:9: "of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice"
Deuteronomy 30:9: "will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:"
Deuteronomy 30:15: "thee this day and good, and death and evil;"
Joshua 7:21: "When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish and two hundred shekels"
Joshua 9:25: "And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right to do unto us, do."
Joshua 21:45: "not aught of any good which the LORD"
Joshua 23:13: "in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land"
Joshua 23:14: "thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD"
Joshua 23:15: "Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things upon you, which"
Joshua 23:15: "until he have destroyed you from off this good land which"
Joshua 23:16: "against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given"
Judges 8:2: "the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer?"
Judges 8:32: "the son of Joash died in a good and was buried in the sepulcher of Joash"
Judges 8:35: "namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had showed unto Israel."
Judges 9:2: "the men Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten"
Judges 9:11: "unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over"
Judges 9:16: "and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal"









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