H3190: יָטַב
yâṭab · pronounced yaw-tab' · “be good”
Definition
to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)
KJV translates it as: be accepted, amend, use aright, benefit, be (make) better, seem best, make cheerful, be comely, [phrase] be content, diligent(-ly), dress, earnestly, find favour, give, be glad, do (be, make) good(-ness), be (make) merry, please ([phrase] well), shew more (kindness), skilfully, [idiom] very small, surely, make sweet, thoroughly, tire, trim, very, be (can, deal, entreat, go, have) well (said, seen).
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
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
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H3190 is translated
- it was good ×15
- it may go well ×12
- it will go well ×4
- do good ×4
- he will do good ×4
- thoroughly do well ×4
- do good to ×4
- it may be good ×4
- make good ×4
- you will do well ×3
- you ×3
- it will be good ×3
Bible verses with H3190 (yâṭab)
Yâṭab appears in 110 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 4:7
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
- Genesis 12:13
Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
- Genesis 12:16
And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
- Genesis 32:9
And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
- Genesis 32:12
And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
- Genesis 34:18
And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son.
- Genesis 40:14
But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:
- Genesis 41:37
And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
- Genesis 45:16
And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, Joseph’s brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
- Exodus 1:20
Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
- Exodus 30:7
And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
- Leviticus 5:4
Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.
- Leviticus 10:19
And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord; and such things have befallen me: and if I had eaten the sin offering to day, should it have been accepted in the sight of the Lord?
- Leviticus 10:20
And when Moses heard that, he was content.
- Numbers 10:29
And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses’ father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the Lord said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel.
- Numbers 10:32
And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the Lord shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.
- Deuteronomy 1:23
And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
- Deuteronomy 4:40
Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever.
- Deuteronomy 5:16
Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
- Deuteronomy 5:28
And the Lord heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the Lord said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken.
- Deuteronomy 5:29
O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
- Deuteronomy 6:3
Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
- 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 the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers,
- Deuteronomy 8:16
Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
- Deuteronomy 9:21
And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
All 110 references
- Deuteronomy 12:25
- Deuteronomy 12:28
- Deuteronomy 13:14
- Deuteronomy 17:4
- Deuteronomy 18:17
- Deuteronomy 19:18
- Deuteronomy 22:7
- Deuteronomy 27:8
- Deuteronomy 28:63
- Deuteronomy 30:5
- Joshua 22:30
- Joshua 22:33
- Joshua 24:20
- Judges 17:13
- Judges 18:20
- Judges 19:6
- Judges 19:9
- Judges 19:22
- Ruth 3:1
- Ruth 3:7
- Ruth 3:10
- 1 Samuel 2:32
- 1 Samuel 16:17
- 1 Samuel 18:5
- 1 Samuel 20:13
- 1 Samuel 24:4
- 1 Samuel 25:31
- 2 Samuel 3:36
- 2 Samuel 18:4
- 1 Kings 1:47
- 1 Kings 3:10
- 1 Kings 21:7
- 2 Kings 9:30
- 2 Kings 11:18
- 2 Kings 25:24
- Nehemiah 2:5
- Nehemiah 2:6
- Esther 1:21
- Esther 2:4
- Esther 2:9
- Esther 5:14
- Job 24:21
- Psalms 33:3
- Psalms 36:3
- Psalms 49:18
- Psalms 51:18
- Psalms 69:31
- Psalms 119:68
- Psalms 125:4
- Proverbs 15:2
- Proverbs 15:13
- Proverbs 17:22
- Proverbs 30:29
- Ecclesiastes 7:3
- Ecclesiastes 11:9
- Isaiah 1:17
- Isaiah 23:16
- Isaiah 41:23
- Jeremiah 1:12
- Jeremiah 2:33
- Jeremiah 4:22
- Jeremiah 7:3
- Jeremiah 7:5
- Jeremiah 7:23
- Jeremiah 10:5
- Jeremiah 13:23
- Jeremiah 18:10
- Jeremiah 18:11
- Jeremiah 26:13
- Jeremiah 32:40
- Jeremiah 32:41
- Jeremiah 35:15
- Jeremiah 38:20
- Jeremiah 40:9
- Jeremiah 42:6
- Ezekiel 33:32
- Ezekiel 36:11
- Hosea 10:1
- Jonah 4:4
- Jonah 4:9
- Micah 2:7
- Micah 7:3
- Nahum 3:8
- Zephaniah 1:12
- Zechariah 8:15