H3190 יָטַב

יָטַב (yâṭab), Strong’s H3190: to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right) KJV: be accepted, amend, use aright, benefit, be (make) better…

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yâṭab — to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)

KJV: be accepted, amend, use aright, benefit, be (make) better, seem best, make cheerful…

Occurs 112 times.

Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [יָטַב] vb. be good, well, glad, pleasing
- Qal
- 1 be glad, joyful
- 2 be well placed
- 3 impers. be well for or with, go well with
- 4 be pleasing
- Hithp.
- 1 make glad, rejoice
- 2 do good to, deal well with
- 3 do well or thoroughly
- 4 make a thing good, right, beautiful
- 5 do well, right, ethically

Where it occurs
- Genesis 4:7 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=7) — If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you…
- Genesis 12:13 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=13) — Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”
- Genesis 12:16 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=16) — He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female…
- Genesis 32:10 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/32?v=10) — Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD, who said to me, ‘Return to your country…
- Genesis 32:13 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/32?v=13) — You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because…
- Genesis 34:18 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=18) — Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.
- Genesis 40:14 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=14) — But remember me when it is well with you. Please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me…
- Genesis 41:37 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=37) — The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
- Genesis 45:16 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/45?v=16) — The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” It pleased Pharaoh well, and his…
- Exodus 1:20 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/1?v=20) — God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.