tov · be good, go well

What it means

tov (טוֹב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be good, go well”.

Do well.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To seem good, to be pleasing or fitting.
2. That things turn out well, that it goes favorably for someone.
3. To act with kindness, to do something good for someone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• it seems good ×8
• good ×4
• do good ×2
• it was good ×2
• you did well ×2
• better ×1
• it may go well ×1
• it will be well ×1
• it would be well ×1
• one who plays well ×1
• others ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×2
• 1 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Esther×5
• Psalms×2
• Song of Songs×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×2

• Numbers 11:18

  And say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of YHWH, saying, “Who will give us to eat meat? For it was good for us in Egypt.” So YHWH will give you meat, and you shall eat.

• Numbers 24:1

  When Balaam saw that it was good in the eyes of YHWH to bless Israel, he did not go, as at other times, to meet omens, but set his face toward the wilderness.

• Numbers 24:5

  How good are your tents, Jacob, your dwellings, Israel!

• Deuteronomy 5:33

  In all the way that YHWH your Elohim has commanded you you shall walk, so that you may live and it may go well with you, and you may prolong your days in the land that you will take possession of.

• Deuteronomy 15:16

  But if he says to you, “I will not go out from you,” because he loves you and your household, because it is good for him with you,

• 1 Samuel 16:16

  Please let our lord speak: your servants are before you; they will seek a man who knows how to play the lyre; and it will be, when the evil spirit of Elohim is upon you, that he will play with his hand, and it will be well with you.”

• 1 Samuel 16:23

  And it would happen, whenever the spirit of Elohim was upon Saul, that David would take the lyre and play with his hand; and there would be relief for Saul and it would be well with him, and the evil spirit would depart from him.

• 1 Kings 8:18

  But YHWH said to David my father, ‘Because it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.

• 2 Kings 10:30

  YHWH said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in doing what is right in my eyes, and according to all that was in my heart you have done to the house of Ahab, sons of the fourth generation will sit for you on the throne of Israel.”

• 1 Chronicles 13:2

  David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is from YHWH our Elohim, let us send everywhere to our brothers who remain in all the lands of Israel, and with them to the priests and the Levites in the cities with their pasturelands, so that they may gather to us;

• 2 Chronicles 6:8

  But YHWH said to David my father, ‘Because it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.

• Nehemiah 2:5

  and I said to the king, “If to the king it seems good, and if your servant is pleasing before you, that you send me to Judah, to the city of the tombs of my fathers, so that I may build it.”

• Nehemiah 2:7

  And I said to the king, “If to the king it seems good, let letters be given to me for the governors of the other side of the river, that they may let me pass until I come to Judah,

• Esther 1:19

  If it seems good to the king, let a royal word go out from before him, and let it be written among the laws of Persia and Media, and let it not pass away: that Vashti is not to come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royalty to her companion who is better than she.

• Esther 3:9

  If it seems good to the king, let it be written to make them perish; and ten thousand talents of silver I will weigh out into the hands of those who do the work, to bring it into the treasuries of the king.”

• Esther 5:4

  And Esther said, “If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have made for him.”

• Esther 5:8

  if I have found favor in the eyes of the king, and if it seems good to the king to grant my request and to do my petition, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will make for them, and tomorrow I will do according to the word of the king.”

• Esther 7:3

  And Esther the queen answered and said, “If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and if it seems good to the king, let my life be given to me at my request, and my people at my petition.

• Psalms 119:68

  You are good and do good; teach me your statutes.

• Psalms 125:4

  Do good, YHWH, to the good and to the upright in their hearts.

• Song of Songs 4:10

  How beautiful is your love, my sister, bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfumes than all balsams!

• Jeremiah 32:41

  And I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and with all my soul.

• Ezekiel 33:32

  And look, you are to them like a song of love, beautiful of voice and one who plays well; and they hear your words, but they do not do them.

• Ezekiel 36:11

  And I will multiply on you human being and livestock, and they will multiply and be fruitful; and I will settle you as in your former times, and I will do more good than at your beginnings; and you will know that I am YHWH.