Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4315
מֵיטָב
metabmay-tawb'
best
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mêyṭâb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4315is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4315
the best part
The King James renders it: best.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
metab is rendered "best". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 47:6the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and brothers in the best part of the land. They may dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know of any talented men among them, put them in charge of my own livestock.”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and brothers in the best part of the land. They may dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know of any talented men among them, put them in charge of my own livestock.”
Genesis 47:6בְּמֵיטַ֣ב
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- best of3
- in best of2
- and best of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בְּמֵיטַ֣ב1
- בְּמֵיטַ֥ב1
- וּמֵיטַ֥ב1
- מֵיטַ֥ב1
- מֵיטַ֣ב1
- מֵיטַ֤ב1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
Genesis
two uses
the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and brothers in the best part of the land. They may dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know of any talented men among them, put them in charge of my own livestock.”
- בְּמֵיטַ֣בbemeitavpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in best of
So Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
- בְּמֵיטַ֥בbemeitavpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in best of
Exodus
two uses
If a man grazes his livestock in a field or vineyard and allows them to stray so that they graze in someone else’s field, he must make restitution from the best of his own field or vineyard.
- מֵיטַ֥בmeitavnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: best of
- וּמֵיטַ֥בumeitavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and best of
1 Samuel
two uses
Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to destroy them, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.
- מֵיטַ֣בmeitavnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: best of
Saul answered, “The troops brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but the rest we devoted to destruction.”
- מֵיטַ֤בmeitavnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: best of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.