Be good
טְאֵבStrong’s H3190teev (te-ev)
Appears in 110 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Teev is the Hebrew word usually translated “it was good”, “it may go well” and “it will go well”. It appears in 110 verses of the Old Testament.
“So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.”
Meaning
- (P'al) to be glad, be good
How it's translated
- and it was good 15
- it may go well 9
- it will go well 4
- to do good 4
- thoroughly 4
- to do good to 4
- so it may be good 4
- you will do well 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 19
- Jeremiah 17
- Genesis 9
- Psalms 7
- 1 Samuel 6
- Judges 5
27 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 4:7If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
- Genesis 12:13Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
- Genesis 12:16And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
- Genesis 32:9And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
- Genesis 32:12And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
- Genesis 34:18And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son.
All 110 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
טְאֵב teev · be good
(P'al) to be glad, be good Aramaic of ya.tav (יָטַב "be good" H3190)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “thoroughly” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THOROUGHLY, adverb
thur'roly. Fully; entirely; completely; as a room thoroughly swept; a business thoroughly performed. Let the matter be thoroughly sifted. Let every part of the work be thoroughly finished.
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.