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Hebrew

Goodness

טוּבStrong’s H2898

tuv

Appears in 31 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Tuv is the Hebrew word usually translated “good thing of”, “goodness your” and “good thing”. It appears in 31 verses of the Old Testament.

“For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.”
Zechariah 9:17 KJV
Meaning
  1. Goods, good things, goodnessgood things · goods, property · fairness, beauty, joy, prosperity, goodness (abstract) · goodness (of taste, discernment) · goodness (of God) (abstract)
How it's translated
  • good thing of 7
  • goodness your 3
  • good thing 2
  • goodness of 2
  • some of good thing of 1
  • goodness my 1
  • and with goodness of 1
  • in goodness your 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 7
  • Genesis 4
  • Nehemiah 3
  • Isaiah 3
  • Jeremiah 3
  • Deuteronomy 2

13 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

טוּב tuv · goodness

1) goods, good things, goodness 1a) good things 1b) goods, property 1c) fairness, beauty, joy, prosperity, goodness (abstract) 1d) goodness (of taste, discernment) 1e) goodness (of God) (abstract)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

GOOD'NESS, noun

The state of being good; the physical qualities which constitute value, excellence or perfection; as the goodness of timber; the goodness of a soil.

  1. The moral qualities which constitute christian excellence; moral virtue; religion.“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness faith” Galatians 5:22
  2. Kindness; benevolence; benignity of heart; but more generally, acts of kindness; charity; humanity exercised.
  3. Kindness; benevolence of nature; mercy.“The Lord God--abundant in goodness and truth” Exodus 34:6
  4. Kindness; favor shown; acts of benevolence, compassion or mercy.“had done to Israel” Exodus 18:9

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.