H3190 יָטַב
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 110 KJV occurrences
יָטַב
yâṭab · yaw-tab'
Definition
to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)
KJV Renderings
be accepted, amend, use aright, benefit, be (make) better, seem best, make cheerful, be comely, [phrase] be content, diligent(-ly), dress, earnestly, find favour, give, be glad, do (be, make) good(-ness), be (make) merry, please ([phrase] well), shew more (kindness), skilfully, [idiom] very small, surely, make sweet, thoroughly, tire, trim, very, be (can, deal, entreat, go, have) well (said, seen).
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 110)
- 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.
- Exodus 1:20Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
- Deuteronomy 9:21And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
- Judges 17:13Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
- 2 Samuel 3:36And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.
- Esther 2:9And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king’s house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.
- Isaiah 1:17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
- Jeremiah 26:13Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.