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:
Jeremiah 35:15: "every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not"
Jeremiah 38:20: "I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live."
Jeremiah 40:9: "and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well"
Jeremiah 42:6: "we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice"
Ezekiel 33:32: "song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words,"
Ezekiel 36:11: "and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that"
Hosea 10:1: "the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images."
Jonah 4:4: "Then said Doest thou well to be angry?"
Jonah 4:9: "to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said,"
Jonah 4:9: "for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death."
Micah 2:7: "his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?"
Micah 7:3: "That they may do evil earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward;"
Nahum 3:8: " Art thou better No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about"
Zephaniah 1:12: "that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil."
Zechariah 8:15: "have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah:"
