מֵיטָב
metav · best
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4315 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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metav (מֵיטָב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “best”.
The best, the best part.
How to say it
me·tav
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
- The best, the best part.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 47:6
The land of Egypt is before you; in the best of the land settle your father and your brothers; let them live in the land of Goshen. And if you know that there are among them capable men, put them as chiefs over livestock, over what is mine.”
- Genesis 47:11
Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
- Exodus 22:5
When a man lets a field or a vineyard be grazed over, and lets loose his livestock and it grazes in another's field, he shall repay from the best of his field and the best of his vineyard.
- 1 Samuel 15:9
But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the flock and the herd, the second-born and the lambs, and all that was good, and they were not willing to devote them to destruction; but all the property that was despised and worthless, that they devoted to destruction.
- 1 Samuel 15:15
Saul said, “From the Amalekites they have brought them, for the people spared the best of the flock and the herd in order to sacrifice to YHWH your Elohim; and the rest we have devoted to destruction.”
And 1 more times.