Hebrew verb · H3190
יָטַב
yatabyaw-tab'
be good
117 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: yâṭab
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3190is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 27 of 39Old Testament books
- 86spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3190
to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)
The King James renders it: 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).
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
yatab is rendered "be good". It stands 117 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-seven books.
- Nineteen of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 4:7If 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.”
- The Greek text spells it eighty-six different ways.
The first use
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.”
Genesis 4:7תֵּיטִיב֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in twenty-seven of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and it was good15
- it may go well9
- it will go well4
- so it may be good4
- thoroughly do well4
- to do good4
- to do good to4
- he will do good3
- it makes good3
- it will be good3
- so it may go well3
- you will do well3
and 51 more, 117 uses in all
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 117, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
86 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
- וַיִּיטַב֙4
- יִ֣יטַב4
- יִיטַ֥ב4
- הֵיטֵ֔ב3
- הֵיטִ֖יבוּ3
- וַיִּיטַ֥ב3
- וַיִּיטַ֖ב3
- יִֽיטַב־3
- הֵיטֵ֥ב2
- הֵיטֵ֑ב2
- הֵיטִ֣יבָה2
- הֵיטִ֥יבוּ2
and 74 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqw3ms15Hc/Vqw3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolute11HVhaa
- verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singular9HVqj3ms
- preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)8HR/Vhcc
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular8HVhi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular8HVqi3ms
- HC/Vqu3ms6HC/Vqu3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular3HVhi2ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural3HVhp3cp
- verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine plural3HVhv2mp
- Hc/Vhq1cp2Hc/Vhq1cp
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular2HC/Vhrmsa
Genesis
eleven uses
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.”
- תֵּיטִיב֙teitivverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will do well
- תֵיטִ֔יבteitivverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will do 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.”
- יִֽיטַב־yitav-verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it may go well
He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.
- הֵיטִ֖יבheitivverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he did good
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,’
- וְאֵיטִ֥יבָהveeitivahconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: so let me do good
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.’”
- הֵיטֵ֥בheitevverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to do good
- אֵיטִ֖יבʾeitivverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will do good
Their offer seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.
- וַיִּֽיטְב֥וּvaiyitevuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they were good
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.
- יִ֣יטַבyitavverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will go well
This proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his officials.
- וַיִּיטַ֥בvaiyitavHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it was good
When the news reached Pharaoh’s house that Joseph’s brothers had come, Pharaoh and his servants were pleased.
- וַיִּיטַב֙vaiyitavHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it was good
Exodus
two uses
So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became even more numerous.
- וַיֵּ֥יטֶבvaiyeitevHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he did good
And Aaron is to burn fragrant incense on it every morning when he tends the lamps.
- בְּהֵיטִיב֛וֹbeheitivopreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: when makes good he
Leviticus
three uses
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.
- לְהֵיטִ֗יבleheitivpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to do good
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?”
- הַיִּיטַ֖בhaiyitavquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: ¿ will it be good
And when Moses heard this explanation, he was satisfied.
- וַיִּיטַ֖בvaiyitavHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it was good
Numbers
three uses
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.”
- וְהֵטַ֣בְנוּvehetavnuHc/Vhq1cptagged: and we will do good
If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”
- יֵיטִ֧יבyeitivverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will do good
- וְהֵטַ֥בְנוּvehetavnuHc/Vhq1cptagged: and we will do good
Deuteronomy
nineteen uses
The plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.
- וַיִּיטַ֥בvaiyitavHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it was good
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.
- יִיטַ֣בyitavverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will 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.
- יִ֣יטַבyitavverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it may go 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.
- הֵיטִ֖יבוּheitivuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have done 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.
- יִיטַ֥בyitavverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it may go well
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.
- יִיטַ֣בyitavverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will go 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,
- יִ֣יטַבyitavverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it may go well
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.
- לְהֵיטִֽבְךָ֖leheitivkhapreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: to do good to you
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.
- הֵיטֵ֔בheitevverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: 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.
- יִיטַ֤בyitavverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it may 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.
- יִיטַ֨בyitavverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it may go well
then you must inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. And if it is established with certainty that this abomination has been committed among you,
- הֵיטֵ֑בheitevverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: thoroughly do well
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,
- הֵיטֵ֔בheitevverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: thoroughly do well
Then the LORD said to me, “They have spoken well.
- הֵיטִ֖יבוּheitivuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have done well
The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is proven to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother,
- הֵיטֵ֑בheitevverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: thoroughly do 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.
- יִ֣יטַבyitavverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it may go well
And you shall write distinctly upon these stones all the words of this law.”
- הֵיטֵֽב׃ סheitevverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: doing well
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.
- לְהֵיטִ֣יבleheitivpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to do good to
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.
- וְהֵיטִֽבְךָ֥veheitivkhaHc/Vhq3ms/Sp2mstagged: and he will do good to you
Joshua
three uses
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.
- וַיִּיטַ֖בvaiyitavHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it was good
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.
- וַיִּיטַ֣בvaiyitavHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it was 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.”
- הֵיטִ֥יבheitivverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has done good
Judges
five uses
Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.”
- יֵיטִ֥יבyeitivverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will do good
So the priest was glad and took the ephod, the household idols, and the graven image, and went with the people.
- וַיִּיטַב֙vaiyitavHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it was good
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.”
- וְיִטַ֥בveyitavHC/Vqu3mstagged: so it may be good
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.”
- וְיִיטַ֣בveyitavHC/Vqu3mstagged: so it may be good
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!”
- מֵיטִיבִ֣יםmeitivimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: making good
Ruth
three uses
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?
- יִֽיטַב־yitav-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will go well
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.
- וַיִּיטַ֣בvaiyitavHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it was good
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.
- הֵיטַ֛בְתְּheitavtverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you have made good
1 Samuel
six uses
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.
- יֵיטִ֖יבyeitivverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will do good to
And Saul commanded his servants, “Find me someone who plays well, and bring him to me.”
- מֵיטִ֣יבmeitivverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: does well
So 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.
- וַיִּיטַב֙vaiyitavHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it was good
But 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.
- יֵיטִ֨בyeitivverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will make good
So David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do with him as you wish.’” Then David crept up secretly and cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.
- יִטַ֣בyitavverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be good
then my lord will have no remorse or guilt of conscience over needless bloodshed and revenge. And when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, may you remember your maidservant.”
- וְהֵיטִ֤בveheitivHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will do good
2 Samuel
two uses
All the people took note and were pleased. In fact, everything the king did pleased them.
- וַיִּיטַ֖בvaiyitavHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it was good
“I will do whatever seems best to you,” the king replied. So he stood beside the gate, while all the troops marched out by hundreds and by thousands.
- יִיטַ֥בyitavverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be good
1 Kings
three uses
The king’s servants have also gone to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon more famous than your own name, and may He make his throne greater than your throne.’ And the king has bowed in worship on his bed,
- יֵיטֵ֨בyeitevverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: may he make good
Now it pleased the Lord that Solomon had made this request.
- וַיִּיטַ֥בvaiyitavHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it was good
But his wife Jezebel said to him, “Do you not reign over Israel? Get up, eat some food, and be cheerful, for I will get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
- וְיִטַ֣בveyitavHC/Vqu3mstagged: so it may be good
2 Kings
three uses
Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.
- וַתֵּ֣יטֶבvateitevHc/Vhw3fstagged: and she made good
So all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars. And Jehoiada the priest posted guards for the house of the LORD.
- הֵיטֵ֔בheitevverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: thoroughly do well
And Gedaliah took an oath before them and their men, assuring them, “Do not be afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you.”
- וְיִטַ֥בveyitavHC/Vqu3mstagged: so it may go well
Nehemiah
two uses
and answered the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city where my fathers are buried, so that I may rebuild it.”
- יִיטַ֥בyitavverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he is good
Then the king, with the queen seated beside him, asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time.
- וַיִּיטַ֤בvaiyitavHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it was good
Esther
five uses
The king and his princes were pleased with this counsel; so the king did as Memucan had advised.
- וַיִּיטַב֙vaiyitavHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it was good
Then let the young woman who pleases the king become queen in place of Vashti.” This suggestion pleased the king, and he acted accordingly.
- תִּיטַב֙titavverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she will be good
- וַיִּיטַ֧בvaiyitavHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it was good
And the young woman pleased him and obtained his favor, so he quickly provided her with beauty treatments and the special diet. He assigned to her seven select maidservants from the palace and transferred her with them to the best place in the harem.
- וַתִּיטַ֨בvatitavHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she was good
His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed.
- וַיִּיטַ֧בvaiyitavHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it was good
Job
one use
They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.
- יְיֵטִֽיב׃yeyetivverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he does good to
Psalms
seven uses
Sing to Him a new song; play skillfully with a shout of joy.
- הֵיטִ֥יבוּheitivuverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: do well
The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.
- לְהֵיטִֽיב׃leheitivpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to do good
Though in his lifetime he blesses his soul— and men praise you when you prosper—
- תֵיטִ֥יבteitivverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will do well
In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.
- הֵיטִ֣יבָהheitivahverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: do good to
And this will please the LORD more than an ox, more than a bull with horns and hooves.
- וְתִיטַ֣בvetitavHC/Vqu2mstagged: so it may be good
You are good, and You do what is good; teach me Your statutes.
- וּמֵטִ֗יבumetivconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: and doing good
Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, and to the upright in heart.
- הֵיטִ֣יבָהheitivahverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: do good
Proverbs
five uses
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of the fool spouts folly.
- תֵּיטִ֣יבteitivverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it makes good
A joyful heart makes a cheerful countenance, but sorrow of the heart crushes the spirit.
- יֵיטִ֣בyeitivverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it makes good
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
- יֵיטִ֣בyeitivverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it makes good
There are three things that are stately in their stride, and four that are impressive in their walk:
- מֵיטִ֣יבֵיmeitiveiverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: doing well of
- מֵיטִ֥בֵיmeitiveiverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: doing well
Ecclesiastes
two uses
Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the heart.
- יִ֥יטַבyitavverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be good
Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.
- וִֽיטִֽיבְךָ֤vitivekhaHC/Vhu3ms/Sp2mstagged: and let it make good you
Isaiah
three uses
Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
- הֵיטֵ֛בheitevverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: to do good
“Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.”
- הֵיטִ֤יבִיheitiviverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: do well
Tell us the things that are to come, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do something good or evil, that we may look on together in dismay.
- תֵּיטִ֣יבוּteitivuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will do good
Jeremiah
eighteen uses
“You have observed correctly,” said the LORD, “for I am watching over My word to accomplish it.”
- הֵיטַ֣בְתָּheitavtaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have done well
How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.
- תֵּיטִ֥בִיteitiviverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you make good
“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
- וּלְהֵיטִ֖יבuleheitivconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to do good
Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.
- הֵיטִ֥יבוּheitivuverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: make good
For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
- הֵיטֵיב֙heiteivverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to make good
- תֵּיטִ֔יבוּteitivuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will make good
but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
- יִיטַ֥בyitavverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it may go well
Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and neither can they do any good.”
- הֵיטֵ֖יבheiteivverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: doing good
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good—you who are accustomed to doing evil.
- לְהֵיטִ֔יבleheitivpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to do good
and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.
- לְהֵיטִ֥יבleheitivpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to do good to
Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’
- וְהֵיטִ֥יבוּveheitivuconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and make good
So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you.
- הֵיטִ֤יבוּheitivuverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: make good
I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.
- לְהֵיטִיבִ֖יleheitivipreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: to do good to I
Yes, I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul.
- לְהֵטִ֣יבlehetivpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to do good to
Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.
- וְהֵיטִ֣יבוּveheitivuconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and make good
“They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey the voice of the LORD in what I am telling you, that it may go well with you and you may live.
- וְיִ֥יטַבveyitavHC/Vqu3mstagged: so it may go well
Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore an oath to them and their men, assuring them, “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.
- וְיִיטַ֥בveyitavHC/Vqu3mstagged: so it may go well
Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us, for we will obey the voice of the LORD our God!”
- יִֽיטַב־yitav-verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it may go well
Ezekiel
two uses
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.
- וּמֵטִ֣בumetivconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: and does well
I 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.
- וְהֵטִֽבֹתִי֙vehetivotiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will do good
Hosea
one use
Israel 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.
- הֵיטִ֖יבוּheitivuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they made good
Jonah
three uses
But the LORD replied, “Have you any right to be angry?”
- הַהֵיטֵ֖בhaheitevquestion particle + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: ¿ rightly do well
Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”
- הַהֵיטֵ֥בhaheitevquestion particle + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: ¿ rightly do well
- הֵיטֵ֥בheitevverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: rightly do well
Micah
two uses
Should 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?
- יֵיטִ֔יבוּyeitivuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: do they do good
Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
- לְהֵיטִ֔יבleheitivpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to do well
Nahum
one use
Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?
- הֲתֵֽיטְבִי֙hateiteviquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: ¿ have you been made good
Zephaniah
one use
And 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.’
- יֵיטִ֥יבyeitivverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will do good
Zechariah
one use
“so now I have resolved to do good again to Jerusalem and Judah. Do not be afraid.
- לְהֵיטִ֥יבleheitivpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to do good to
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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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
