H2896: טוֹב
ṭôwb · pronounced tobe · “pleasant”
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)
KJV translates it as: 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).
Word origin: from H2895 (טוֹב);
Extended definition
1) good, pleasant, agreeable
1a) pleasant, agreeable (to the senses)
1b) pleasant (to the higher nature)
1c) good, excellent (of its kind)
1d) good, rich, valuable in estimation
1e) good, appropriate, becoming
1f) better (comparative)
1g) glad, happy, prosperous (of man's sensuous nature)
1h) good understanding (of man's intellectual nature)
1i) good, kind, benign
1j) good, right (ethical)
Aramaic equivalent: tav (טָב "fine" H2869)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H2896 is translated
- good ×325
- is good ×105
- are good ×12
- good things ×10
- good of ×9
- was good ×8
- was good of ×6
- of good ×5
- he is good ×5
- fine ×4
- good people ×4
- were good ×3
Bible verses with H2896 (ṭôwb)
Ṭôwb appears in 497 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 1:31
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
- Genesis 2:9
And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
- Genesis 2:12
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
- Genesis 2:17
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
- Genesis 2:18
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
- Genesis 3:5
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
- Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
- Genesis 3:22
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
- Genesis 6:2
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
- Genesis 15:15
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
- Genesis 16:6
But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.
- Genesis 18:7
And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
- Genesis 19:8
Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
- Genesis 20:15
And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
- Genesis 24:16
And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
- Genesis 24:50
Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the Lord: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
- Genesis 25:8
Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
- Genesis 26:7
And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
- Genesis 26:29
That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the Lord.
- Genesis 27:9
Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:
- Genesis 29:19
And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
- Genesis 30:20
And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.
- Genesis 31:24
And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
- Genesis 31:29
It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
- Genesis 40:16
When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:
All 497 references (first 400)
- Genesis 41:5
- Genesis 41:22
- Genesis 41:24
- Genesis 41:26
- Genesis 41:35
- Genesis 44:4
- Genesis 50:20
- Exodus 2:2
- Exodus 3:8
- Exodus 14:12
- Exodus 18:9
- Exodus 18:17
- Leviticus 27:10
- Leviticus 27:12
- Leviticus 27:14
- Leviticus 27:33
- Numbers 10:29
- Numbers 10:32
- Numbers 13:19
- Numbers 14:3
- Numbers 14:7
- Numbers 24:13
- Numbers 36:6
- Deuteronomy 1:14
- Deuteronomy 1:25
- Deuteronomy 1:35
- Deuteronomy 1:39
- Deuteronomy 3:25
- Deuteronomy 4:21
- Deuteronomy 4:22
- Deuteronomy 6:10
- Deuteronomy 6:18
- Deuteronomy 6:24
- Deuteronomy 8:7
- Deuteronomy 8:10
- Deuteronomy 8:12
- Deuteronomy 9:6
- Deuteronomy 10:13
- Deuteronomy 11:17
- Deuteronomy 12:28
- Deuteronomy 23:6
- Deuteronomy 23:16
- Deuteronomy 26:11
- Deuteronomy 28:11
- Deuteronomy 28:12
- Deuteronomy 30:9
- Deuteronomy 30:15
- Joshua 7:21
- Joshua 9:25
- Joshua 21:45
- Joshua 23:13
- Joshua 23:14
- Joshua 23:15
- Joshua 23:16
- Judges 8:2
- Judges 8:32
- Judges 8:35
- Judges 9:2
- Judges 9:11
- Judges 9:16
- Judges 10:15
- Judges 15:2
- Judges 18:9
- Judges 18:19
- Judges 19:24
- Ruth 2:22
- Ruth 3:13
- Ruth 4:15
- 1 Samuel 1:8
- 1 Samuel 1:23
- 1 Samuel 2:24
- 1 Samuel 3:18
- 1 Samuel 8:14
- 1 Samuel 8:16
- 1 Samuel 9:2
- 1 Samuel 9:10
- 1 Samuel 11:10
- 1 Samuel 12:23
- 1 Samuel 14:36
- 1 Samuel 14:40
- 1 Samuel 15:9
- 1 Samuel 15:22
- 1 Samuel 15:28
- 1 Samuel 16:12
- 1 Samuel 16:16
- 1 Samuel 16:23
- 1 Samuel 19:4
- 1 Samuel 20:7
- 1 Samuel 20:12
- 1 Samuel 24:17
- 1 Samuel 24:18
- 1 Samuel 24:19
- 1 Samuel 25:3
- 1 Samuel 25:8
- 1 Samuel 25:15
- 1 Samuel 25:21
- 1 Samuel 25:30
- 1 Samuel 26:16
- 1 Samuel 27:1
- 1 Samuel 29:6
- 1 Samuel 29:9
- 2 Samuel 2:6
- 2 Samuel 3:13
- 2 Samuel 7:28
- 2 Samuel 10:12
- 2 Samuel 11:2
- 2 Samuel 13:22
- 2 Samuel 14:17
- 2 Samuel 14:32
- 2 Samuel 15:3
- 2 Samuel 16:12
- 2 Samuel 17:7
- 2 Samuel 17:14
- 2 Samuel 18:3
- 2 Samuel 18:27
- 2 Samuel 19:18
- 2 Samuel 19:27
- 2 Samuel 19:35
- 2 Samuel 19:38
- 2 Samuel 24:22
- 1 Kings 1:6
- 1 Kings 1:42
- 1 Kings 2:18
- 1 Kings 2:32
- 1 Kings 2:38
- 1 Kings 2:42
- 1 Kings 3:9
- 1 Kings 8:36
- 1 Kings 8:56
- 1 Kings 8:66
- 1 Kings 10:7
- 1 Kings 12:7
- 1 Kings 14:13
- 1 Kings 14:15
- 1 Kings 18:24
- 1 Kings 19:4
- 1 Kings 20:3
- 1 Kings 21:2
- 1 Kings 22:8
- 1 Kings 22:13
- 1 Kings 22:18
- 2 Kings 2:19
- 2 Kings 3:19
- 2 Kings 3:25
- 2 Kings 5:12
- 2 Kings 10:3
- 2 Kings 10:5
- 2 Kings 20:3
- 2 Kings 20:13
- 2 Kings 20:19
- 2 Kings 25:28
- 1 Chronicles 4:40
- 1 Chronicles 13:2
- 1 Chronicles 16:34
- 1 Chronicles 17:26
- 1 Chronicles 19:13
- 1 Chronicles 21:23
- 1 Chronicles 28:8
- 1 Chronicles 29:28
- 2 Chronicles 3:5
- 2 Chronicles 3:8
- 2 Chronicles 5:13
- 2 Chronicles 6:27
- 2 Chronicles 6:41
- 2 Chronicles 7:3
- 2 Chronicles 7:10
- 2 Chronicles 10:7
- 2 Chronicles 12:12
- 2 Chronicles 14:2
- 2 Chronicles 18:7
- 2 Chronicles 18:12
- 2 Chronicles 18:17
- 2 Chronicles 19:3
- 2 Chronicles 19:11
- 2 Chronicles 21:13
- 2 Chronicles 24:16
- 2 Chronicles 30:18
- 2 Chronicles 30:22
- 2 Chronicles 31:20
- Ezra 3:11
- Ezra 7:9
- Ezra 8:18
- Ezra 8:22
- Ezra 8:27
- Ezra 9:12
- Nehemiah 2:5
- Nehemiah 2:7
- Nehemiah 2:8
- Nehemiah 2:10
- Nehemiah 2:18
- Nehemiah 5:9
- Nehemiah 5:19
- Nehemiah 6:19
- Nehemiah 9:13
- Nehemiah 9:20
- Nehemiah 13:31
- Esther 1:11
- Esther 1:19
- Esther 2:2
- Esther 2:3
- Esther 2:7
- Esther 2:9
- Esther 3:9
- Esther 3:11
- Esther 5:4
- Esther 5:8
- Esther 5:9
- Esther 7:3
- Esther 7:9
- Esther 8:5
- Esther 8:8
- Esther 8:17
- Esther 9:13
- Esther 9:19
- Esther 9:22
- Esther 10:3
- Job 2:10
- Job 7:7
- Job 9:25
- Job 10:3
- Job 13:9
- Job 21:13
- Job 21:25
- Job 22:18
- Job 22:21
- Job 30:26
- Job 34:4
- Job 36:11
- Psalms 4:6
- Psalms 14:1
- Psalms 14:3
- Psalms 16:2
- Psalms 21:3
- Psalms 23:6
- Psalms 25:8
- Psalms 25:13
- Psalms 34:10
- Psalms 34:12
- Psalms 34:14
- Psalms 35:12
- Psalms 36:4
- Psalms 37:3
- Psalms 37:16
- Psalms 37:27
- Psalms 38:20
- Psalms 39:2
- Psalms 45:1
- Psalms 52:3
- Psalms 53:1
- Psalms 53:3
- Psalms 63:3
- Psalms 65:11
- Psalms 68:10
- Psalms 69:16
- Psalms 73:1
- Psalms 73:28
- Psalms 84:10
- Psalms 84:11
- Psalms 85:12
- Psalms 86:5
- Psalms 86:17
- Psalms 100:5
- Psalms 103:5
- Psalms 104:28
- Psalms 106:5
- Psalms 107:9
- Psalms 109:5
- Psalms 109:21
- Psalms 111:10
- Psalms 112:5
- Psalms 118:8
- Psalms 118:9
- Psalms 119:39
- Psalms 119:65
- Psalms 119:68
- Psalms 119:72
- Psalms 119:122
- Psalms 122:9
- Psalms 125:4
- Psalms 133:1
- Psalms 133:2
- Psalms 135:3
- Psalms 136:1
- Psalms 143:10
- Psalms 145:9
- Psalms 147:1
- Proverbs 2:9
- Proverbs 2:20
- Proverbs 3:4
- Proverbs 3:14
- Proverbs 3:27
- Proverbs 4:2
- Proverbs 8:11
- Proverbs 8:19
- Proverbs 11:23
- Proverbs 11:27
- Proverbs 12:2
- Proverbs 12:9
- Proverbs 12:14
- Proverbs 12:25
- Proverbs 13:2
- Proverbs 13:15
- Proverbs 13:21
- Proverbs 13:22
- Proverbs 14:14
- Proverbs 14:19
- Proverbs 14:22
- Proverbs 15:3
- Proverbs 15:15
- Proverbs 15:16
- Proverbs 15:17
- Proverbs 15:23
- Proverbs 15:30
- Proverbs 16:8
- Proverbs 16:16
- Proverbs 16:19
- Proverbs 16:20
- Proverbs 16:29
- Proverbs 16:32
- Proverbs 17:1
- Proverbs 17:13
- Proverbs 17:20
- Proverbs 17:26
- Proverbs 18:5
- Proverbs 18:22
- Proverbs 19:1
- Proverbs 19:2
- Proverbs 19:8
- Proverbs 19:22
- Proverbs 20:23
- Proverbs 21:9
- Proverbs 21:19
- Proverbs 22:1
- Proverbs 22:9
- Proverbs 24:13
- Proverbs 24:23
- Proverbs 24:25
- Proverbs 25:7
- Proverbs 25:24
- Proverbs 25:25
- Proverbs 25:27
- Proverbs 27:5
- Proverbs 27:10
- Proverbs 28:6
- Proverbs 28:10
- Proverbs 28:21
- Proverbs 31:12
- Proverbs 31:18
- Ecclesiastes 2:1
- Ecclesiastes 2:3
- Ecclesiastes 2:24
- Ecclesiastes 2:26
- Ecclesiastes 3:12
- Ecclesiastes 3:13
- Ecclesiastes 3:22
- Ecclesiastes 4:3
- Ecclesiastes 4:6
- Ecclesiastes 4:8
- Ecclesiastes 4:9
- Ecclesiastes 4:13
- Ecclesiastes 5:5
- Ecclesiastes 5:11
- Ecclesiastes 5:18
- Ecclesiastes 6:3
- Ecclesiastes 6:6
- Ecclesiastes 6:9
- Ecclesiastes 6:12
- Ecclesiastes 7:1
- Ecclesiastes 7:2
- Ecclesiastes 7:3
- Ecclesiastes 7:5
- Ecclesiastes 7:8
- Ecclesiastes 7:10
- Ecclesiastes 7:11
- Ecclesiastes 7:14