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 3 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.
Indeed, you are to them like a singer of love songs with a beautiful voice, who skillfully plays an instrument. They hear your words but do not put them into practice.
Read word by wordI will fill you with people and animals, and they will multiply and be fruitful. I will make you as inhabited as you once were, and I will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Read word by wordIsrael was a luxuriant vine, yielding fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better he made the sacred pillars.
Read word by wordBut the LORD replied, “Have you any right to be angry?”
Read word by wordThen God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”
Read word by wordShould it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly?
Read word by wordBoth hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
Read word by wordAre you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?
Read word by wordAnd at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
Read word by word“so now I have resolved to do good again to Jerusalem and Judah. Do not be afraid.
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