Strong's #3190: yatab (pronounced yaw-tab')
a primitive root; to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right):--be accepted, amend, use aright, benefit, be (make) better, seem best, make cheerful, be comely, + be content, diligent(-ly), dress, earnestly, find favour, give, be glad, do (be, make) good((-ness)), be (make) merry, please (+ well), shew more (kindness), skilfully, X very small, surely, make sweet, thoroughly, tire, trim, very, be (can, deal, entreat, go, have) well (said, seen).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
yâṭab
1) to be good, be pleasing, be well, be glad
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be glad, be joyful
1a2) to be well placed
1a3) to be well for, be well with, go well with
1a4) to be pleasing, be pleasing to
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to make glad, rejoice
1b2) to do good to, deal well with
1b3) to do well, do thoroughly
1b4) to make a thing good or right or beautiful
1b5) to do well, do right
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 115 times:
1 Samuel 16:17: "me now a man that can play well, and bring him to"
1 Samuel 18:5: "set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people,"
1 Samuel 20:13: "more to Jonathan: but if it please my father to do thee evil,"
1 Samuel 24:4: "into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off"
1 Samuel 25:31: "or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid."
2 Samuel 3:36: "And all took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king"
2 Samuel 18:4: "unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by"
1 Kings 1:47: "make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne"
1 Kings 3:10: "And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked"
1 Kings 21:7: "arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee"
2 Kings 9:30: "heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out"
2 Kings 11:18: "his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest"
2 Kings 25:24: "and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well"
Nehemiah 2:5: "it please the king, and if thy servant have found favor in thy sight, that thou wouldest send"
Nehemiah 2:6: "be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set"
Esther 1:21: "And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word"
Esther 2:4: "And let the maiden pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti."
Esther 2:4: "be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did"
Esther 2:9: "And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave"
Esther 5:14: "unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made."
Job 24:21: "that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow."
Psalms 33:3: "song; play skilfully with a loud noise."
Psalms 36:3: "and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good."
Psalms 49:18: "his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well"
Psalms 51:18: " Do good unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem."
Psalms 69:31: " This also shall please better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hooves."
Psalms 125:4: " Do good, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts."
Proverbs 15:2: "The tongue useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness."
Proverbs 15:13: "A merry maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken."
Proverbs 17:22: "A merry doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones."
Proverbs 30:29: "There be three well, yea, four are comely in going:"
Proverbs 30:29: "well, yea, four are comely in going:"
Ecclesiastes 7:3: "for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better."
Ecclesiastes 11:9: "in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways"
Isaiah 1:17: "Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless,"
Isaiah 23:16: "the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that"
Isaiah 41:23: "ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together."
Jeremiah 1:12: "Then said unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten"
Jeremiah 2:33: "Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught"
Jeremiah 4:22: "they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."
Jeremiah 7:3: "of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this"
Jeremiah 7:5: "For ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if"
Jeremiah 7:5: "For ye throughly amend ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if"
Jeremiah 7:23: "the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well"
Jeremiah 10:5: "do evil, neither also is it in them to do good."
Jeremiah 13:23: "then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil."
Jeremiah 18:10: "the good, wherewith I said I would benefit"
Jeremiah 18:11: "way, and make your ways and your doings good."
Jeremiah 26:13: "Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God;"
Jeremiah 32:40: "I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear"
