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Fine

טָבStrong’s H2896

tav

Appears in 497 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Tav is the Hebrew word usually translated “good”, “good of” and “good thing”. It appears in 497 verses of the Old Testament.

“Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.”
Daniel 1:4 KJV
Meaning
  1. Good
  2. A good thing, benefit, welfarewelfare, prosperity, happiness · good things (collective) · good, benefit · moral good
  3. Welfare, benefit, good thingswelfare, prosperity, happiness · good things (collective) · bounty
How it's translated
  • good 365
  • the good 44
  • and good 21
  • for good 20
  • good of 9
  • good thing 9
  • and good of 7
  • according to the good 5

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Proverbs 62
  • Psalms 58
  • Ecclesiastes 41
  • 1 Samuel 33
  • Genesis 32
  • Jeremiah 30

35 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 497 verses, by book
Song of Solomon 3
1:21:37:9
Daniel 2
1:41:15
Joel 1
3:5
Jonah 2
4:34:8
Nahum 2
1:73:4
Zechariah 3
1:131:178:19
Malachi 1
2:17
Hebrew dictionary

טָב tav · fine

good Aramaic of tov (טוֹב "pleasant" H2896A)

טוֹב tov · good

1) a good thing, benefit, welfare 1a) welfare, prosperity, happiness 1b) good things (collective) 1c) good, benefit 1d) moral good

טוֹבָה tovah · welfare

1) welfare, benefit, good things 1a) welfare, prosperity, happiness 1b) good things (collective) 1c) bounty

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “fine” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

FINE, adjective

  1. Small; thin; slender; minute; of very small diameter; as a fine thread; fine silk; a fine hair.
  2. Subtil; thin; tenuous; as, fine spirits evaporate; a finer medium opposed to a grosser.
  3. Thin; keep; smoothly sharp; as the fine edge of a razor.
  4. Made of fine threads; not coarse; as fine linen or cambric.
All definitions and other forms of “fine”
  1. Clear; pure; free from feculence or foreign matter; as fine gold or silver; wine is not good till fine
  2. Refined.
  3. Nice; delicate; perceiving or discerning minute beauties or deformities; as a fine taste; a fine sense.
  4. Subtil; artful; dextrous. [See Finess.]
  5. Subtil; sly; fraudulent.
  6. Elegant; beautiful in thought.
  7. Very handsome; beautiful with dignity.
  8. Accomplished; elegant in manners.
  9. Accomplished in learning; excellent; as a fine scholar.
  10. Excellent; superior; brilliant or acute; as a man of fine genius.
  11. Amiable; noble; ingenuous; excellent; as a man of a fine mind.
  12. Showy; splendid; elegant; as a range of fine buildings; a fine house or garden; a fine view.
  13. Ironically, worthy of contemptuous notice; eminent for bad qualities.

FINE, noun

[This word is the basis of finance, but I have not found it, in its simple form, in any modern language, except the English. The word seems to be the Latin finis, and the application of it to pecuniary compensation seems to have proceeded from its feudal use, in the transfer of lands, in which a final agreement or concord was made between the lord and his vassal.]

  1. In a feudal sense, a final agreement between persons concerning lands or rents, or between the lord and his vassal, prescribing the conditions on which the latter should hold his lands.
  2. A sum of money paid to the lord by his tenant, for permission to alienate or transfer his lands to another.
  3. A sum of money paid to the king or state by way of penalty for an offense; a mulet; a pecuniary punishment.

FINE, verb transitive

[See fine the adjective.]

  1. To clarify; to refine; to purify; to defecate; to free from feculence or foreign matter; as, to fine wine.
  2. To purify, as a metal; as, to fine gold or silver.
  3. To make less coarse; as, to fine grass. [Not used.]
  4. To decorate; to adorn. [Not in use.]

FINE, verb transitive

[See fine the noun.]

  1. To impose on one a pecuniary penalty, payable to the government, for a crime or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine The trespassers were fined ten dollars and imprisoned a month.
  2. verb intransitive To pay a fine [Not used.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.