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יָטַב

ya.tavbe goodHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb117 occurrences27 books110 verses

Definition

a primitive root; to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)
Traditional renderings: 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, × very small, surely, make sweet, thoroughly, tire, trim, very, be (can, deal, entreat, go, have) well (said, seen).

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders יָטַב:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

117 total
  1. Genesis 4:7תֵּיטִיב֙ · you do what is right; תֵיטִ֔יב · you refuse to do what is right
    If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”
  2. Genesis 12:13יִֽיטַב־ · I will be treated well
    Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared.”
  3. Genesis 12:16הֵיטִ֖יב · well
    He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.
  4. Genesis 32:9וְאֵיטִ֥יבָה · and I will make you prosper
    Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’
  5. Genesis 32:12הֵיטֵ֥ב · I will surely make you prosper; אֵיטִ֖יב
    But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”
  6. Genesis 34:18וַיִּֽיטְב֥וּ · seemed good
    Their offer seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.
  7. Genesis 40:14יִ֣יטַב · it goes well
    But when it goes well for you, please remember me and show me kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh, that he might bring me out of this prison.
  8. Genesis 41:37וַיִּיטַ֥ב · pleased
    This proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his officials.
  9. Genesis 45:16וַיִּיטַב֙ · were pleased
    When the news reached Pharaoh’s house that Joseph’s brothers had come, Pharaoh and his servants were pleased.
  10. Exodus 1:20וַיֵּ֥יטֶב · was good
    So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became even more numerous.
  11. Exodus 30:7בְּהֵיטִיב֛וֹ · when he tends
    And Aaron is to burn fragrant incense on it every morning when he tends the lamps.
  12. Leviticus 5:4לְהֵיטִ֗יב · to do anything good
    Or if someone swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do anything good or evil—in whatever matter a man may rashly pronounce an oath—even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty in the matter.
  13. Leviticus 10:19הַיִּיטַ֖ב · would it have been acceptable
    But Aaron replied to Moses, “Behold, this very day they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD. Since these things have happened to me, if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been acceptable in the sight of the LORD?”
  14. Leviticus 10:20וַיִּיטַ֖ב · he was satisfied
    And when Moses heard this explanation, he was satisfied.
  15. Numbers 10:29וְהֵטַ֣בְנוּ · and we will treat you well
    Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”
  16. Numbers 10:32יֵיטִ֧יב; וְהֵטַ֥בְנוּ · we will share
    If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”
  17. Deuteronomy 1:23וַיִּיטַ֥ב · good to me
    The plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.
  18. Deuteronomy 4:40יִיטַ֣ב · may prosper
    Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
  19. Deuteronomy 5:16יִ֣יטַב · it may go well
    Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
  20. Deuteronomy 5:28הֵיטִ֖יבוּ · They have done well
    And the LORD heard the words you spoke to me, and He said to me, “I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.
  21. Deuteronomy 5:29יִיטַ֥ב · it might be well
    If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.
  22. Deuteronomy 6:3יִיטַ֣ב · you may prosper
    Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
  23. Deuteronomy 6:18יִ֣יטַב · it may be well
    Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,
  24. Deuteronomy 8:16לְהֵיטִֽבְךָ֖ · He might cause you to prosper
    He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
  25. Deuteronomy 9:21הֵיטֵ֔ב
    And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.
  26. Deuteronomy 12:25יִיטַ֤ב · it may go well
    Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
  27. Deuteronomy 12:28יִיטַ֨ב · it may always go well
    Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
  28. Deuteronomy 13:14הֵיטֵ֑ב · thoroughly
    …then you must inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. And if it is established with certainty that this abomination has been committed among you,
  29. Deuteronomy 17:4הֵיטֵ֔ב · thoroughly
    …and if it is reported and you hear about it, you must investigate it thoroughly. If the report is true and such an abomination has happened in Israel,
  30. Deuteronomy 18:17הֵיטִ֖יבוּ · well
    Then the LORD said to me, “They have spoken well.
  31. Deuteronomy 19:18הֵיטֵ֑ב · thoroughly
    The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is proven to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother,
  32. Deuteronomy 22:7יִ֣יטַב · it may be well
    You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.
  33. Deuteronomy 27:8הֵיטֵֽב׃ס
    And you shall write distinctly upon these stones all the words of this law.”
  34. Deuteronomy 28:63לְהֵיטִ֣יב · to make you prosper
    Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
  35. Deuteronomy 30:5וְהֵיטִֽבְךָ֥ · He will cause you to prosper
    And the LORD your God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed, and you will take possession of it. He will cause you to prosper and multiply more than your fathers.
  36. Joshua 22:30וַיִּיטַ֖ב · they were satisfied
    When Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation—the heads of Israel’s clans who were with him—heard what the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had to say, they were satisfied.
  37. Joshua 22:33וַיִּיטַ֣ב · were satisfied
    The Israelites were satisfied with the report, and they blessed God and spoke no more about going to war against them to destroy the land where the Reubenites and Gadites lived.
  38. Joshua 24:20הֵיטִ֥יב · He has been good
    If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring disaster on you and consume you, even after He has been good to you.”
  39. Judges 17:13יֵיטִ֥יב · will be good
    Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.”
  40. Judges 18:20וַיִּיטַב֙ · was glad
    So the priest was glad and took the ephod, the household idols, and the graven image, and went with the people.
  41. Judges 19:6וְיִטַ֥ב · be merry
    So they sat down and the two of them ate and drank together. Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Please agree to stay overnight and let your heart be merry.”
  42. Judges 19:9וְיִיטַ֣ב · may be merry
    When the man got up to depart with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Look, the day is drawing to a close. Please spend the night. See, the day is almost over. Spend the night here, that your heart may be merry. Then you can get up early tomorrow for your journey home.”
  43. Judges 19:22מֵיטִיבִ֣ים · were enjoying
    While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”
  44. Ruth 3:1יִֽיטַב־ · it may be well
    One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek a resting place for you, that it may be well with you?
  45. Ruth 3:7וַיִּיטַ֣ב · and was in good spirits
    After Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then Ruth went in secretly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.
  46. Ruth 3:10הֵיטַ֛בְתְּ · You have shown
    Then Boaz said, “May the LORD bless you, my daughter. You have shown more kindness now than before, because you have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor.
  47. 1 Samuel 2:32יֵיטִ֖יב · is good
    You will see distress in My dwelling place. Despite all that is good in Israel, no one in your house will ever again reach old age.