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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 86
    spellings

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

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.

The words it stands beside

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.”

    Genesis 4:7

    • 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.”

    Genesis 12:13

    • 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.

    Genesis 12:16

    • 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,’

    Genesis 32:9

    • 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.’”

    Genesis 32:12

    • 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.

    Genesis 34:18

    • 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.

    Genesis 40:14

    • יִ֣יטַבyitavverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will go well
  • This proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his officials.

    Genesis 41:37

    • 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.

    Genesis 45:16

    • 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.

    Exodus 1:20

    • וַיֵּ֥יטֶבvaiyeitevHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he did good
  • And Aaron is to burn fragrant incense on it every morning when he tends the lamps.

    Exodus 30:7

    • 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.

    Leviticus 5:4

    • 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?”

    Leviticus 10:19

    • הַיִּיטַ֖בhaiyitavquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: ¿ will it be good
  • And when Moses heard this explanation, he was satisfied.

    Leviticus 10:20

    • 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.”

    Numbers 10:29

    • וְהֵטַ֣בְנוּvehetavnuHc/Vhq1cptagged: and we will do good
  • If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”

    Numbers 10:32

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 1:23

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 4:40

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 5:16

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 5:28

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 5:29

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 6:3

    • 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,

    Deuteronomy 6:18

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 8:16

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 9:21

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 12:25

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 12:28

    • 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,

    Deuteronomy 13:14

    • 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,

    Deuteronomy 17:4

    • הֵיטֵ֔בheitevverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: thoroughly do well
  • Then the LORD said to me, “They have spoken well.

    Deuteronomy 18:17

    • 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,

    Deuteronomy 19:18

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 22:7

    • 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.”

    Deuteronomy 27:8

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 28:63

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 30:5

    • 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.

    Joshua 22:30

    • 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.

    Joshua 22:33

    • 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.”

    Joshua 24:20

    • 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.”

    Judges 17:13

    • 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.

    Judges 18:20

    • 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.”

    Judges 19:6

    • 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.”

    Judges 19:9

    • 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!”

    Judges 19:22

    • 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?

    Ruth 3:1

    • 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.

    Ruth 3:7

    • 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.

    Ruth 3:10

    • 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.

    1 Samuel 2:32

    • 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.”

    1 Samuel 16:17

    • 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.

    1 Samuel 18:5

    • 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.

    1 Samuel 20:13

    • 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.

    1 Samuel 24:4

    • 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.”

    1 Samuel 25:31

    • 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.

    2 Samuel 3:36

    • 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.

    2 Samuel 18:4

    • 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,

    1 Kings 1:47

    • 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.

    1 Kings 3:10

    • 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.”

    1 Kings 21:7

    • 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.

    2 Kings 9:30

    • 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.

    2 Kings 11:18

    • 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.”

    2 Kings 25:24

    • 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.”

    Nehemiah 2:5

    • 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.

    Nehemiah 2:6

    • 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.

    Esther 1:21

    • 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.

    Esther 2:4

    • 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.

    Esther 2:9

    • 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.

    Esther 5:14

    • וַיִּיטַ֧בvaiyitavHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it was good

Job

one use
  • They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.

    Job 24:21

    • 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.

    Psalms 33:3

    • 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.

    Psalms 36:3

    • 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—

    Psalms 49:18

    • 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.

    Psalms 51:18

    • 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.

    Psalms 69:31

    • וְתִיטַ֣בvetitavHC/Vqu2mstagged: so it may be good
  • You are good, and You do what is good; teach me Your statutes.

    Psalms 119:68

    • 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.

    Psalms 125:4

    • 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.

    Proverbs 15:2

    • 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.

    Proverbs 15:13

    • 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.

    Proverbs 17:22

    • 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:

    Proverbs 30:29

    • 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.

    Ecclesiastes 7:3

    • 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.

    Ecclesiastes 11:9

    • 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.”

    Isaiah 1:17

    • 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.”

    Isaiah 23:16

    • 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.

    Isaiah 41:23

    • 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.”

    Jeremiah 1:12

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 2:33

    • 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.”

    Jeremiah 4:22

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 7:3

    • 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,

    Jeremiah 7:5

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 7:23

    • 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.”

    Jeremiah 10:5

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 13:23

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 18:10

    • 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.’

    Jeremiah 18:11

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 26:13

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 32:40

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 32:41

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 35:15

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 38:20

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 40:9

    • 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!”

    Jeremiah 42:6

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 33:32

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 36:11

    • 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.

    Hosea 10:1

    • 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?”

    Jonah 4:4

    • 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!”

    Jonah 4:9

    • 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?

    Micah 2:7

    • 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.

    Micah 7:3

    • 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?

    Nahum 3:8

    • 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.’

    Zephaniah 1:12

    • 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.

    Zechariah 8:15

    • 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.

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