טוֹב
tov
a good thing
Strong's H2896AdjectiveHebrewTWOT 793a

טוֹב (tov) is a Hebrew adjective meaning a good thing. It appears 565 times in 35 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H2896).

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Same Hebrew root (TWOT 793a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 793a)a good thing, benefit, welfare; prosperity, happiness; good; moral good; pleasant, agreeable; pleasing, well; excellent; rich, valuable; appropriate, becoming; better; glad, happy, prosperous; good understanding; kind, benign…
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

טוֹב noun, masculine: a good thing, benefit, welfare

טוֹב adjective: pleasant, agreeable, good

Strong's H2896 טוֹב: 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)
KJV:beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, × fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, × most, pleasant, pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well(-favoured).

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.

Root family 793: טוֹב ṭôb — 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

See it in Scripture

Genesis 1:4Exodus 2:2Leviticus 27:10

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