יָטַב (ya.tav) means “be good” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: yaw-tab' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
יָטַב · ya.tav · be good
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
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a primitive root; to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)
KJV glosses: 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).
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| pleased | 4 |
| is good | 3 |
| it may be well | 3 |
| it may go well | 3 |
| thoroughly | 3 |
| well | 3 |
| and correct | 2 |
| and i will make you prosper | 2 |
| any right | 2 |
| correct | 2 |
| skillfully | 2 |
| to do good | 2 |
| were pleased | 2 |
| adorned | 1 |
| and | 1 |
| and be cheerful | 1 |
| and it will be well | 1 |
| and it will go well | 1 |
| and this was pleasing | 1 |
| and this will please | 1 |
| and was in good spirits | 1 |
| and we will treat you well | 1 |
| and well-doing | 1 |
| and you do what is good | 1 |
| are impressive | 1 |
| are skilled | 1 |
| are you better | 1 |
| be glad | 1 |
| be merry | 1 |
| bring good | 1 |
| commends | 1 |
| correctly | 1 |
| do any good | 1 |
| do good | 1 |
| do something good | 1 |
| doing good to them | 1 |
| doing them good | 1 |
| either good | 1 |
| good to me | 1 |
| has dealt well | 1 |
| has found favor | 1 |
| he has been good | 1 |
| he might cause you to prosper | 1 |
| he was satisfied | 1 |
| he will cause you to prosper | 1 |
| how to do good | 1 |
| i do | 1 |
| i will be treated well | 1 |
| i will surely make you prosper | 1 |
| intends | 1 |
| it goes well | 1 |
| it may always go well | 1 |
| it may go well with us | 1 |
| it might be well | 1 |
| kindness | 1 |
| make sweet | 1 |
| makes a cheerful | 1 |
| may be merry | 1 |
| may prosper | 1 |
| more famous | 1 |
| pleased him | 1 |
| pleases | 1 |
| seemed good | 1 |
| seems best | 1 |
| so it pleased | 1 |
| that are stately | 1 |
| that it may go well | 1 |
| the better he made | 1 |
| they have done well | 1 |
| they were satisfied | 1 |
| to do anything good | 1 |
| to do right | 1 |
| to make you prosper | 1 |
| to prosper | 1 |
| was glad | 1 |
| was good | 1 |
| we will share | 1 |
| were enjoying | 1 |
| were satisfied | 1 |
| when he tends | 1 |
| who skillfully | 1 |
| will be good | 1 |
| would it have been acceptable | 1 |
| you do what is right | 1 |
| you have shown | 1 |
| you may prosper | 1 |
| you prosper | 1 |
| you really correct | 1 |
| you refuse to do what is right | 1 |
| you wish | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| pleased | 7 |
| well | 3 |
| amend | 2 |
| and it pleased | 2 |
| and it shall be well | 2 |
| be merry | 2 |
| better | 2 |
| diligently | 2 |
| do good | 2 |
| doest thou well | 2 |
| that it may be well | 2 |
| to do well | 2 |
| also shall please | 1 |
| and amend | 1 |
| and he entreated | 1 |
| and he was accepted | 1 |
| and i will deal well | 1 |
| and if thou doest not well | 1 |
| and that it may go well | 1 |
| and tired | 1 |
| aright | 1 |
| art thou better | 1 |
| but if it please | 1 |
| but to do good | 1 |
| dealt well | 1 |
| do thee good | 1 |
| doeth good | 1 |
| earnestly | 1 |
| for if ye throughly | 1 |
| for thee that it may be well | 1 |
| good | 1 |
| have found favour | 1 |
| he was content | 1 |
| i do well | 1 |
| i will surely | 1 |
| i would benefit | 1 |
| in them to do good | 1 |
| is made better | 1 |
| it and he will do thee good | 1 |
| it may be well | 1 |
| it pleased | 1 |
| it that it may go well | 1 |
| make sweet | 1 |
| maketh a cheerful | 1 |
| may be merry | 1 |
| merry | 1 |
| not and doeth not good | 1 |
| on me when it shall be well | 1 |
| or to do good | 1 |
| over you to do you good | 1 |
| pleased me well | 1 |
| shall do | 1 |
| shall give | 1 |
| shall have dealt well | 1 |
| shall make diligent | 1 |
| should it have been accepted | 1 |
| skilfully | 1 |
| so it pleased | 1 |
| that he hath done you good | 1 |
| that it may go well | 1 |
| that it might be well | 1 |
| thee that it may be well | 1 |
| thee that it may go well | 1 |
| thee to do thee good | 1 |
| thee when thou doest well | 1 |
| therefore now amend | 1 |
| thoroughly | 1 |
| thou doest well | 1 |
| thou hast shewed | 1 |
| to do good | 1 |
| to do them good | 1 |
| to him as it shall seem good | 1 |
| to thee that it may be well | 1 |
| unto me they have well | 1 |
| unto me thou hast well | 1 |
| unto thee so it shall be well | 1 |
| unto thee they have well | 1 |
| very | 1 |
| very small | 1 |
| was glad | 1 |
| was good | 1 |
| was merry | 1 |
| when he dresseth | 1 |
| which pleaseth | 1 |
| why trimmest | 1 |
| will do me good | 1 |
| will not do good | 1 |
| ye also do good | 1 |
| yea do good | 1 |
| you best | 1 |
| you that it may be well | 1 |
Page 1 of 3. 110 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
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.”
Read word by wordPlease 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.”
Read word by wordHe treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.
Read word by wordThen 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,’
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.10
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.’”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.13
Their offer seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordThis proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his officials.
Read word by wordWhen the news reached Pharaoh’s house that Joseph’s brothers had come, Pharaoh and his servants were pleased.
Read word by wordSo God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became even more numerous.
Read word by wordAnd Aaron is to burn fragrant incense on it every morning when he tends the lamps.
Read word by wordOr 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.
Read word by wordBut 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?”
Read word by wordAnd when Moses heard this explanation, he was satisfied.
Read word by wordThen 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.”
Read word by wordIf you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”
Read word by wordThe plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.
Read word by wordKeep 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.
Read word by wordHonor 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.
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by wordIf 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.
Read word by wordHear, 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.
Read word by wordDo 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,
Read word by wordHe 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.
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by wordDo 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.
Read word by wordBe 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.
Read word by wordthen you must inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. And if it is established with certainty that this abomination has been committed among you,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 13.15
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,
Read word by wordThen the LORD said to me, “They have spoken well.
Read word by wordThe judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is proven to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother,
Read word by wordYou 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.
Read word by wordAnd you shall write distinctly upon these stones all the words of this law.”
Read word by wordJust 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.
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by wordWhen 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.
Read word by wordThe 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.
Read word by wordIf 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.”
Read word by wordThen Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.”
Read word by wordSo the priest was glad and took the ephod, the household idols, and the graven image, and went with the people.
Read word by wordSo 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.”
Read word by wordWhen 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.”
Read word by wordWhile 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!”
Read word by wordOne 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?
Read word by wordAfter 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.
Read word by wordThen 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.
Read word by wordYou 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.
Read word by wordAnd Saul commanded his servants, “Find me someone who plays well, and bring him to me.”
Read word by wordSo David marched out and prospered in everything Saul sent him to do, and Saul set him over the men of war. And this was pleasing in the sight of all the people, and of Saul’s officers as well.
Read word by wordBut if my father intends to bring evil on you, then may the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if I do not tell you and send you on your way in safety. May the LORD be with you, just as He has been with my father.
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