טוֹב
ṭôb
pleasing
Strong's H2895VerbHebrewTWOT 793

טוֹב (ṭôb) is a Hebrew verb meaning pleasing. It appears 24 times in 13 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H2895).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 793)

Range of meaning (TWOT 793)pleasing, good; be pleasant, delightful, be glad, joyful, be well with, good for; do well, act right; be, do, make; be better, cheer, goodly, well
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

טוֹב verb: pleasing, good

Strong's H2895 טוֹב: to be (transitively, do or make) good (or well) in the widest sense
KJV:be (do) better, cheer, be (do, seem) good, (make) goodly, × please, (be, do, go, play) well.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

See it in Scripture

Numbers 11:18Deuteronomy 5:331 Samuel 16:16

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