Strong H3190יָטַב
be good
- Transliteration
- yâţab
- Pronunciation
- yaw-tab'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
A primitive root; to be (causatively) make {well} literally ({sound } beautiful) or figuratively ({happy } {successful } right): - be {accepted} {amend} use {aright} {benefit} be (make) {better} seem {best} make {cheerful} be {comely} + be {content} diligent ({-ly}) {dress} {earnestly} find {favour} {give} be {glad} do ({be} make) good ({[-ness]}) be (make) {merry} please (+ {well}) shew more {[kindness]} {skilfully} X very {small} {surely} make {sweet} {thoroughly} {tire} {trim} {very} be ({can} {deal} {entreat} {go} have) well {[said} seen ].
Detailed definition
1) to be good, be pleasing, be well, be glad
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
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
In the Bible
Strong H3190 appears in 102 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- do14
- please14
- be10
- thee8
- good5
- thou5
- merry5
- amend4
- go4
- well3
- accept2
- diligently2
First verses
- Genesis 4:7If 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 12:13Say, 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 12:16And 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 32:9And 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 32:12And 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 34:18And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son.
- Genesis 40:14But 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 41:37And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
- Genesis 45:16And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, Joseph’s brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
- Exodus 1:20Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
- Exodus 30:7And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
- Leviticus 5:4Or 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 10:19And 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 10:20And when Moses heard that, he was content.
- Numbers 10:32And 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 1:23And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
- Deuteronomy 4:40Thou 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 5:16Honour 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 5:28And 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 5:29O 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!