# H2896 טוֹב

טוֹב (ṭôwb), Strong’s H2896: good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or… KJV: beautiful…

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*ṭôwb* — good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or…

KJV: beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, [idiom] fair (word), (be in)…

Derived from [טוֹב ṭôwb](https://besorah.bible/word/H2895) (to be)

Occurs 563 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- טוֹב n.m. a good thing, benefit, welfare
- 1 welfare, prosperity, happiness
- 2 good things
- 3 good = benefit
- 4 moral good
- טוֹב adj
- טוֹב adj. pleasant, agreeable, good
- 1 pleasant, agreeable to the senses
- 2 pleasant to the higher nature, giving pleasure, happiness, prosperity, and so agreeable, pleasing, well
- 3 good, excellent, of its kind
- 4 good, rich, valuable in estimation
- 5 good, appropriate, becoming
- 6 c. מִן compar. = better
- 7 of man's sensuous nature, glad, happy, prosperous
- 8 of man's intellectual nature, good understanding
- 9 good, kind, benign
- 10 good (ethical), right
- טוֹבָה n.f
- טוֹבָה n.f. welfare, benefit, good things, good
- 1 welfare, prosperity, happiness
- 2 good things
- 3 bounty, good

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 1:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=4) — God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
- [Genesis 1:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=10) — God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.
- [Genesis 1:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=12) — The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after…
- [Genesis 1:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=18) — and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
- [Genesis 1:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=21) — God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their…
- [Genesis 1:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=25) — God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on…
- [Genesis 1:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=31) — God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth…
- [Genesis 2:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=9) — Out of the ground the LORD God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the…
- [Genesis 2:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=12) — and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there.
- [Genesis 2:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=17) — but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely…