Strong H4315מֵיטָב
best
- Transliteration
- mêyţâb
- Pronunciation
- may-tawb'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From H3190; the best part: - best.
Detailed definition
1) the best
1a) as superlative
1a) as superlative
In the Bible
Strong H4315 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- best5
First verses
- Genesis 47:6The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
- Genesis 47:11And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
- Exodus 22:5If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man’s field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
- 1 Samuel 15:9But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
- 1 Samuel 15:15And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.