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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:

2 Samuel 3:19: "all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole"
2 Samuel 7:28: "and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:"
2 Samuel 10:12: "and the LORD do that which seemeth him good."
2 Samuel 11:2: "the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look"
2 Samuel 13:22: "unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for"
2 Samuel 14:17: "is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be"
2 Samuel 14:32: "Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still:"
2 Samuel 15:3: "unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear"
2 Samuel 15:26: "here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good"
2 Samuel 16:12: "on mine affliction, and that the LORD me good for his cursing this day."
2 Samuel 17:7: "Ahithophel hath given is not good at this time."
2 Samuel 17:14: "of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD"
2 Samuel 17:14: "For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent"
2 Samuel 18:3: "us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that"
2 Samuel 18:27: "is a good man, and cometh with good tidings."
2 Samuel 18:27: "And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings."
2 Samuel 19:18: "and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down"
2 Samuel 19:27: "is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes."
2 Samuel 19:35: "old: between good and evil? can thy servant taste"
2 Samuel 19:37: "to him what shall seem good"
2 Samuel 19:38: "will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require of"
2 Samuel 24:22: "take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice,"
1 Kings 1:6: "so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bore him after"
1 Kings 1:42: "thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings."
1 Kings 2:18: "And Bath-sheba said, Well; I will speak thee unto the king."
1 Kings 2:32: "upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father"
1 Kings 2:38: "said unto the king, The saying is good: my lord the king hath said,"
1 Kings 2:42: "thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good."
1 Kings 3:9: "thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able"
1 Kings 8:36: "thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain"
1 Kings 8:56: "one word of all his good promise, which he promised"
1 Kings 8:66: "and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness"
1 Kings 8:66: "of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David"
1 Kings 10:7: "the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame"
1 Kings 12:7: "and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants"
1 Kings 14:13: "to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD"
1 Kings 14:15: "Israel out of this good land, which he gave"
1 Kings 18:24: "the people answered and said, It is well spoken."
1 Kings 19:4: "for I am not better than my fathers."
1 Kings 20:3: "and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest,"
1 Kings 21:2: "is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if"
1 Kings 22:8: "hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but"
1 Kings 22:13: "now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth:"
1 Kings 22:13: "of one of them, and speak that which is good."
1 Kings 22:18: "tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but"
2 Kings 2:19: "I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water"
2 Kings 3:19: "city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells"
2 Kings 3:19: "of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones."
2 Kings 3:25: "And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece every man his stone,"
2 Kings 3:25: "of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kir-haraseth left"









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