H2896 Definition

Strong's number
H2896
Lemma
טוֹב
Transliteration
ṭôwb
Pronunciation
tobe
Strong's definition
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, [idiom] fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, [idiom] most, pleasant, [phrase] pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well(-favoured). from H2895 (טוֹב);

520 instances of the word טוֹב ṭôwb (H2896)


  • Ruth 4:15 - And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life and a nourisher of thine old age for thy daughter in law which loveth hath born thee which is better to thee than seven sons

  • Deuteronomy 4:21 - Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes and sware that I should not go over Jordan and that I should not go land in unto that good Furthermore the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance

  • Deuteronomy 4:22 - But I must die in this land I must not go over Jordan I must not go over and possess in this land that good

  • 1 Chronicles 4:40 - And they found pasture fat and good and the land was wide and quiet and peaceable for they of Ham had dwelt there of old

  • Ecclesiastes 5:5 - Better is it that thou shouldest not vow is it that thou shouldest not vow and not pay

  • Esther 5:9 - Then went Haman that day joyful and with a glad heart saw Haman Mordecai gate in the king's that he stood not up nor moved was full Haman Mordecai of indignation

  • Isaiah 5:9 - In mine ears said the LORD of hosts Of a truth houses many shall be desolate even great and fair without inhabitant

  • Nehemiah 5:9 - Also I said It is not good that ye do in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies

  • Ecclesiastes 5:11 - increase When goods they are increased that eat them and what good is there to the owners thereof saving of them with their eyes

  • 2 Kings 5:12 - better Are not Abana and Pharpar rivers of Damascus than all the waters of Israel may I not wash in them and be clean So he turned in a rage

  • 2 Chronicles 5:13 - to make one It came even to pass as the trumpeters and singers to be heard sound to make one and praised and thanking of the LORD and when they lifted up sound with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick and praised of the LORD saying For he is good endureth for ever for his mercy even the house was filled with a cloud even the house of the LORD

  • Amos 5:14 - Seek good and not evil that ye may live and so the LORD the God of hosts shall be with you as ye have spoken

  • Amos 5:15 - Hate the evil and love the good and establish in the gate judgment will be gracious it may be that the LORD God of hosts unto the remnant of Joseph

  • Ecclesiastes 5:18 - Behold that which I have seen it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink Behold that which I have seen it is good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life giveth which God him for it is his portion

  • Nehemiah 5:19 - Think upon me my God for good according to all that I have done for this people

  • Isaiah 5:20 - Woe unto them that call evil and good and good evil that put darkness and light and light darkness that put bitter and sweet and sweet bitter

  • Jeremiah 5:25 - Your iniquities have turned away these things and your sins have withholden good

  • Amos 6:2 - Pass ye unto Calneh and see ye to Hamath greater then go down to Gath of the Philistines be they better than these kingdoms greater or their border or their border

  • Genesis 6:2 - saw That the sons of God the daughters of men were fair that they and they took them wives of all which they chose

  • Ecclesiastes 6:3 - beget If a man an hundred of his years be many children and live be many so that the days of his years and his soul be not filled is better and also that he have no burial I say is better that an untimely birth

  • Ecclesiastes 6:6 - Yea though he live a thousand years twice no good told yet hath he seen place to one do not all go

  • Micah 6:8 - He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the LORD require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy humbly with thy God

  • Ecclesiastes 6:9 - Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire this is also vanity and vexation of spirit

  • Deuteronomy 6:10 - shall have brought And it shall be when the LORD thy God thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob to give cities thee great and goodly which thou buildedst

  • Ecclesiastes 6:12 - For who knoweth what is good a man in this life all the days in this life of his vain which he spendeth as a shadow for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun

  • Jeremiah 6:16 - But they said the LORD Stand way and see and ask paths for the old way where is the good therein and ye shall find rest for your souls But they said

  • Deuteronomy 6:18 - And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD that it may be well with thee and that thou mayest go in and possess land and good sware of the LORD unto thy fathers

  • Nehemiah 6:19 - his good deeds Also they reported before my words me and uttered letters sent to him And Tobiah to put me in fear

  • Jeremiah 6:20 - there to me incense from Sheba To what purpose cometh cane and the sweet country from a far your burnt offerings are not acceptable nor your sacrifices sweet

  • Deuteronomy 6:24 - commanded And the LORD us to do all these statutes to fear And the LORD our God for our good always that he might preserve us alive always

  • 2 Chronicles 6:27 - Then hear thou from heaven and forgive the sin of thy servants and of thy people Israel when thou hast taught way them the good and send rain upon thy land and send and of thy people for an inheritance

  • 2 Chronicles 6:41 - Now therefore arise O LORD God into thy resting place thou and the ark of thy strength let thy priests O LORD God be clothed with salvation and let thy saints rejoice in goodness

  • Ecclesiastes 7:1 - is better A good name ointment is better and the day of death and the day of one's birth

  • Ecclesiastes 7:2 - It is better to the house of mourning to the house of feasting for that is the end of all men and the living will lay it to his heart

  • Ecclesiastes 7:3 - is better Sorrow than laughter for by the sadness of the countenance is made better the heart

  • 2 Chronicles 7:3 - And when all the children of Israel saw came down how the fire and the glory of the LORD upon the house they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement and worshipped and praised of the LORD saying For he is good endureth for ever for his mercy

  • Micah 7:4 - The best of them is as a brier the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh now shall be their perplexity

  • Ecclesiastes 7:5 - It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools

  • Job 7:7 - O remember is wind that my life shall no more mine eye see good

  • Ecclesiastes 7:8 - Better is the end of a thing than the beginning Better thereof and the patient in spirit than the proud in spirit

  • Esther 7:9 - said And Harbonah one of the chamberlains before Then the king Behold also the gallows had made of Haman for Mordecai who had spoken good Then the king standeth in the house of Haman high fifty cubits said Then the king Hang

  • Ezra 7:9 - For upon the first month day of the first began he to go up from Babylon For upon the first month day of the fifth came he to Jerusalem hand of his God according to the good

  • Song of Solomon 7:9 - And the roof of thy mouth wine like the best that goeth for my beloved down sweetly to speak causing the lips of those that are asleep

  • Ecclesiastes 7:10 - Say days not thou What is the cause that the former were better wisely than these for thou dost not enquire

  • 2 Chronicles 7:10 - day and twentieth And on the three month of the seventh away his people into their tents glad and merry in heart and merry had shewed that the LORD unto David and to Solomon and to Israel his people

  • Ecclesiastes 7:11 - is good Wisdom with an inheritance and by it there is profit to them that see the sun

  • Ecclesiastes 7:14 - In the day be joyful be joyful In the day of adversity consider the one over against also hath set God the other to the end should find that man after nothing

  • Isaiah 7:15 - Butter and honey shall he eat that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good

  • Isaiah 7:16 - shall know For before the child to refuse the evil and choose the good forsaken the land that thou abhorrest shall be of both her kings

  • Ecclesiastes 7:18 - It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this yea also from this of this yea also from this withdraw not thine hand for he that feareth God shall come forth

  • Ecclesiastes 7:20 - man For there is not a just upon earth that doeth good and sinneth

  • Joshua 7:21 - When I saw among the spoils garment Babylonish a goodly and two hundred shekels and the silver wedge of gold a of fifty shekels weight then I coveted them and took them and behold they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent and the silver

  • Ecclesiastes 7:26 - And I find more bitter than death the woman is snares and nets whose heart as bands and her hands whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her but the sinner shall be taken

  • 2 Samuel 7:28 - And now O Lord GOD thou art that God and thy words be true and thou hast promised unto thy servant this goodness

  • Judges 8:2 - And he said unto them What have I done better now in comparison of you Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim than the vintage of Abiezer

  • Hosea 8:3 - hath cast off Israel the thing that is good the enemy shall pursue

  • Esther 8:5 - And said the king If it please and if I have found favour before seem right and the thing before the king If it please in his eyes let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite let it be written to destroy the Jews provinces the king

  • Deuteronomy 8:7 - For the LORD thy God bringeth a land thee into a good a land of brooks of water of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills

  • Esther 8:8 - Write ye also for the Jews as it liketh you name in the king's and seal ring in the king's for the writing Write name in the king's and seal ring in the king's may no man reverse

  • Deuteronomy 8:10 - When thou hast eaten and art full then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God land for the good which he hath given

  • Proverbs 8:11 - is better For wisdom than rubies and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared

  • Deuteronomy 8:12 - Lest when thou hast eaten and art full houses goodly and hast built and dwelt

  • Ecclesiastes 8:12 - Though a sinner do evil an hundred times and his days be prolonged yet surely I know that it shall be well which fear God which fear before

  • Ecclesiastes 8:13 - But it shall not be well with the wicked neither shall he prolong his days which are as a shadow because he feareth not before God

  • 1 Samuel 8:14 - your fields and your vineyards and your oliveyards even the best And he will take of them and give them to his servants

  • Ecclesiastes 8:15 - Then I commended mirth hath no better thing because a man him under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life giveth which God him under the sun

  • Jeremiah 8:15 - We looked for peace but no good came and for a time of health and behold trouble

  • 1 Samuel 8:16 - your menservants and your maidservants young men and your goodliest and your asses And he will take and put them to his work

  • Esther 8:17 - And in every province And in every province and in every city and in every city whithersoever commandment the king's and his decree came had joy and gladness of the Jews a feast day and a good And many of the people of the land became Jews fell for the fear of the Jews

  • Ezra 8:18 - upon us they brought hand of our God And by the good us a man of understanding of the sons of Mahli of the sons of Levi of the sons of Israel and Sherebiah of the sons and his brethren eighteen

  • Proverbs 8:19 - is better My fruit than gold yea than fine gold and my revenue silver than choice

  • Zechariah 8:19 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts The fast of the fourth The fast of the fifth The fast of the seventh The fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness feasts and cheerful the truth and peace therefore love

  • Ezra 8:22 - For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way because we had spoken of the king because we had spoken The hand of our God that seek is upon all them for good him but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake

  • Ezra 8:27 - basons as gold Also twenty drams of a thousand vessels copper of fine and two precious as gold

  • Judges 8:32 - died And Gideon the son of Joash old age in a good and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father in Ophrah of the Abiezrites

  • Judges 8:35 - Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal namely Gideon according to all the goodness Neither shewed unto Israel

  • 1 Kings 8:36 - Then hear thou in heaven and forgive the sin of thy servants and of thy people Israel that thou teach way them the good and give rain upon thy land and give and of thy people for an inheritance

  • 1 Kings 8:56 - Blessed be the LORD that hath given rest unto his people Israel according to all that he promised there hath not failed promise one promise of all his good according to all that he promised by the hand of Moses his servant

  • 1 Kings 8:66 - day On the eighth away his people and they blessed the king unto their tents joyful and glad of heart and glad had done that the LORD for David his servant and for Israel his people

  • Ecclesiastes 9:2 - and to him that event All things come alike to all there is one to the righteous and to the wicked not as is the good and to the clean and to the unclean sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not as is the good so is the sinner and he that sweareth and to him that an oath

  • 1 Samuel 9:2 - And he had a son whose name was Saul a choice young man a goodlier person And he had a son of Israel a goodlier than he from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people

  • Judges 9:2 - Speak I pray you in the ears of all the men of Shechem Whether is better reign which are threescore and ten persons for you either that all the sons of Jerubbaal reign persons over you or that one over you remember also that I am your bone and your flesh

  • Amos 9:4 - into captivity before their enemies thence will I command the sword and it shall slay them and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil and not for good

  • Ecclesiastes 9:4 - For for a living to him that is there is hope dog for a living is better lion than a dead

  • Deuteronomy 9:6 - Understand it for thy righteousness therefore that the LORD thy God giveth land thee not this good to possess people for thou art a stiffnecked

  • Ecclesiastes 9:7 - Go thy way eat with joy thy bread and drink heart with a merry thy wine now accepteth for God thy works

  • 1 Samuel 9:10 - said Saul to his servant Well Then said unto the city where the man of God

  • Judges 9:11 - said But the fig tree unto them Should I forsake my sweetness fruit and my good and go to be promoted over the trees

  • Ezra 9:12 - not your daughters Now therefore give to your children not your daughters neither take to your children nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever that ye may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever

  • Esther 9:13 - Then said Esther the king If it please let it be granted to morrow to the Jews which are in Shushan to do decree also according unto this day's ten sons and let Haman's be hanged upon the gallows

  • Nehemiah 9:13 - also upon mount Sinai Thou camest down and spakest with them from heaven and gavest judgments them right laws and true statutes and commandments good

  • Ecclesiastes 9:16 - Then said is better I Wisdom than strength I Wisdom nevertheless the poor man's is despised and his words are not heard

  • Judges 9:16 - truly and sincerely Now therefore if ye have done king in that ye have made Abimelech well Now therefore if ye have done with Jerubbaal and his house unto him according to the deserving of his hands Now therefore if ye have done

  • Ecclesiastes 9:18 - good Wisdom than weapons of war sinner but one destroyeth good much

  • Esther 9:19 - Therefore the Jews of the villages that dwelt towns in the unwalled made day the fourteenth of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting day and a good and of sending portions one to another

  • Nehemiah 9:20 - spirit also thy good Thou gavest to instruct not thy manna them and withheldest from their mouth them water Thou gavest for their thirst

  • Esther 9:22 - As the days rested wherein the Jews from their enemies and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow and joy and from mourning As the days into a good that they should make As the days of feasting and joy and of sending portions one to another and gifts to the poor

  • Job 9:25 - Now my days are swifter than a post they flee away they see no good

  • Joshua 9:25 - And now behold we are in thine hand good and right as it seemeth unto thee to do unto thee to do

  • Hosea 10:1 - vine is an empty Israel fruit he bringeth forth unto himself according to the multitude fruit he hath increased the altars according to the goodness of his land images