טָב
ṭâb · H2869 · Aramaic · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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good, fine
State in which an object is of a high quality
ExamplesDaniel 2:32 “The head of that statue was made of fine gold, its chest and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,
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to be right
State in which an event is considered to be appropriate thing to do
ExamplesEzra 5:17 “And now, if it pleases the king, let a search be conducted in the king’s treasure house, which is there in Babylon, as to whether a decree was issued by King Cyrus to rebuild this house of God in Jerusalem; and let the king send to us his decision concerning this matter.”
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- יָפֶה yâpheh · H3303 · beautiful, handsome, proper
- יָפֶה expresses beauty and fineness, overlapping with טָב in contexts where 'fine' or 'good' refers to pleasant appearance or quality.
In the other Testament 2 words
- καλός kalós · G2570 · good, fine, praiseworthy
- καλός is the standard Greek adjective for 'good, beautiful, fine' in moral and aesthetic senses, directly equivalent to Hebrew טָב in expressing quality and goodness.
- ἀγαθός agathós · G18 · good, goodness, good act
- ἀγαθός expresses 'good' in moral and intrinsic quality, a natural Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew טָב when expressing goodness or fineness.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Good002001001031
- Daniel 2:32 describes the statue of Nebuchadnezzar's dream, “the head of that statue was made of fine gold, its chest and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze.”
- Right002001003013
- Ezra 5:17 has the letter to King Darius ask, “and now, if it pleases the king, let a search be conducted in the king's treasure house, which is there in Babylon, as to whether a decree was issued by King Cyrus to rebuild this house of God in Jerusalem.”
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2869. tab טָב adjective good; — absolute ׳ט Dan 2:32 pure gold; = pleasing to (עַל…
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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