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:
Proverbs 25:25: "to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country."
Proverbs 25:27: "It is not good to eat much honey: their own glory is not glory."
Proverbs 27:5: "Open rebuke is better than secret love."
Proverbs 27:10: "house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother"
Proverbs 28:6: " Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse though he"
Proverbs 28:10: "into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession."
Proverbs 28:21: "To have respect of persons is not good: for for of bread that man"
Proverbs 31:12: "She will do him good and not evil all of her life."
Proverbs 31:18: "She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle by night."
Ecclesiastes 2:1: "thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity."
Ecclesiastes 2:3: "till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which"
Ecclesiastes 2:24: "There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink,"
Ecclesiastes 2:24: "than that he should eat and drink, good in his labor."
Ecclesiastes 2:26: "For God giveth to a man that is good that is good in his sight and knowledge,"
Ecclesiastes 2:26: "travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This"
Ecclesiastes 3:12: "I know that there is no good in them, but a man to rejoice, and to do"
Ecclesiastes 3:12: "a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life."
Ecclesiastes 3:13: "that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good"
Ecclesiastes 3:22: "Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that should rejoice"
Ecclesiastes 4:3: " Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not been,"
Ecclesiastes 4:6: " Better is a handful with quietness, than both the hands full"
Ecclesiastes 4:8: "and bereave my soul of good? of good? This is also vanity,"
Ecclesiastes 4:9: "Two are better than one; because a good reward"
Ecclesiastes 4:9: "one; because a good reward for their labor."
Ecclesiastes 4:13: " Better is a poor and a wise child than an old king,"
Ecclesiastes 5:5: " Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow"
Ecclesiastes 5:11: " When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what is there to the owners thereof, saving"
Ecclesiastes 5:18: "that which I have seen: it is good for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy"
Ecclesiastes 5:18: "for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor that he taketh"
Ecclesiastes 6:3: "and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no"
Ecclesiastes 6:3: "no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than"
Ecclesiastes 6:6: "twice no good: do not all go to"
Ecclesiastes 6:9: " Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: is also"
Ecclesiastes 6:12: "who knoweth what is good in this life, all the days"
Ecclesiastes 7:1: "A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day than the day"
Ecclesiastes 7:1: "A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day than the day"
Ecclesiastes 7:2: " It is better to go to the house of mourning, to"
Ecclesiastes 7:3: "Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness the heart"
Ecclesiastes 7:5: " It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man the song"
Ecclesiastes 7:8: " Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient is better"
Ecclesiastes 7:8: "than the beginning thereof: and the patient is better than the proud in spirit."
Ecclesiastes 7:10: "is the cause that the former days better than these?"
Ecclesiastes 7:11: "Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit the sun."
Ecclesiastes 7:14: "In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day consider: God"
Ecclesiastes 7:14: "In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day consider: God"
Ecclesiastes 7:18: " It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also withdraw"
Ecclesiastes 7:20: "upon earth, doeth good, and sinneth not."
Ecclesiastes 7:26: "heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God"
Ecclesiastes 8:12: "know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear"
Ecclesiastes 8:13: "But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither his days, which are as a shadow;"
