tuv · goodness, good things

What it means

tuv (טוּב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “goodness, good things”.

The good, the best of something; goods; also goodness, beauty.

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. The best the land gives: its goods, wealth and plenty.
2. What is good in a person, shown in how he treats others, like God's character.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• goodness ×14
• good things ×6
• good ×4
• best ×3
• prosperity ×3
• beauty ×1
• gladness ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• 2 Kings×1
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×4
• Job×2
• Psalms×7
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×3
• Hosea×2
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 24:10

  The servant took ten camels from the camels of his lord and went, with all kinds of good things of his lord in his hand. He rose and went to Aram-naharaim, to the city of Nahor.

• Genesis 45:18

  and take your father and your households and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’

• Genesis 45:20

  Do not let your eye regret your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’”

• Genesis 45:23

  And to his father he sent as follows: ten donkeys carrying some of the best of Egypt, and ten female donkeys carrying grain, bread, and provisions for his father for the journey.

• Exodus 33:19

  And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of YHWH before you; and I will favor whom I favor, and I will have mercy on whom I have mercy.”

• Deuteronomy 6:11

  houses full of all good things that you did not fill, cisterns dug that you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant— and you eat and are satisfied,

• Deuteronomy 28:47

  Because you did not serve YHWH your Elohim with joy and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything,

• 2 Kings 8:9

  Hazael went to meet him and took a gift with him, all kinds of good things of Damascus, forty camel loads; and he came and stood before him and said, “Your son Ben-hadad, king of Aram, has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I live through this sickness?’”

• Ezra 9:12

  And now, do not give your daughters to their sons, and do not take their daughters for your sons, and you shall not seek their peace or their good forever, so that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it as a possession to your sons forever.’

• Nehemiah 9:25

  And they captured fortified cities and fertile ground, and they possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug, vineyards and olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance; and they ate and were satisfied and grew fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

• Nehemiah 9:35

  And they, in their kingdom, and in your abundant goodness that you gave them, and in the wide and fertile land that you set before them, did not serve you, nor turn from their evil deeds.

• Nehemiah 9:36

  Look, we are slaves today; and the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good things, look, we are slaves on it.

• Job 20:21

  There was no survivor from his eating; therefore his prosperity will not last.

• Job 21:16

  Look, their prosperity is not in their hand; the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

• Psalms 25:7

  The sins of my youth and my transgressions do not remember; according to your loyal love, you remember me, for the sake of your goodness, YHWH.

• Psalms 27:13

  If I had not believed that I would see the goodness of YHWH in the land of the living—

• Psalms 31:19

  How great is your goodness that you have kept for those who fear you, that you have worked for those who take refuge in you before human beings!

• Psalms 65:4

  Happy is the one you choose and bring near; he will dwell in your courts. We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the holiness of your temple.

• Psalms 119:66

  Good discernment and knowledge teach me, for in your commandments I have believed.

• Psalms 128:5

  May YHWH bless you from Zion, and see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life;

• Psalms 145:7

  The remembrance of the abundance of your goodness they will pour forth, and of your righteousness they will shout for joy.

• Proverbs 11:10

  At the prosperity of the righteous the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.

• Isaiah 1:19

  If you are willing and listen, you will eat the good of the land;

• Isaiah 63:7

  The acts of loyal love of YHWH I will recount, the praises of YHWH, according to all that YHWH has done for us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has done for them according to his compassion and according to the abundance of his acts of loyal love.

• Isaiah 65:14

  look, my servants will shout for joy from goodness of heart, but you will cry out from pain of heart, and from the shattering of spirit you will wail.

• Jeremiah 2:7

  And I brought you into a land of orchards to eat its fruit and its good things; but you came in and defiled my land, and my inheritance you made an abomination.

• Jeremiah 31:12

  And they will come and sing for joy on the height of Zion, and they will stream to the goodness of YHWH, to the grain and to the new wine and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd; and their soul will be like a watered garden, and they will not languish ever again.

• Jeremiah 31:14

  And I will drench the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness, declares YHWH.”

• Hosea 3:5

  Afterward the children of Israel will return and seek YHWH their Elohim and David their king, and they will come trembling to YHWH and to his goodness in the end of days.

• Hosea 10:11

  And Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; but I will pass over the beauty of her neck; I will make Ephraim ride; Judah will plow; Jacob will harrow for himself.

• Zechariah 9:17

  For how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine will make flourish the virgins.

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