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H4315מֵיטָבme.tav

bestPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

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Occurrences by book

  1. 2
  2. 2
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. Numbers: 0
  5. Deuteronomy: 0
  6. Joshua: 0
  7. Judges: 0
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 2
  10. 2 Samuel: 0
  11. 1 Kings: 0
  12. 2 Kings: 0
  13. 1 Chronicles: 0
  14. 2 Chronicles: 0
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. Job: 0
  19. Psalms: 0
  20. Proverbs: 0
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. Isaiah: 0
  24. Jeremiah: 0
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. Ezekiel: 0
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. Hosea: 0
  29. Joel: 0
  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. Micah: 0
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. Malachi: 0

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6 occurrences in 5 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Genesis 47:6

    the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and thy brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell. And if thou knowest any able men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.'

    בְּמֵיטַ֣ב (מֵיטַ֣ב) mei.Tav “[the] best of”

  2. Genesis 47:11

    And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, 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.

    בְּמֵיטַ֥ב (מֵיטַ֥ב) mei.Tav “[the] best of”

  3. Exodus 22:4

    If a man cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his beast loose, and it feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

    מֵיטַ֥ב mei.Tav “[the] best of”וּמֵיטַ֥ב (מֵיטַ֥ב) mei.Tav “[the] best of”

  4. 1 Samuel 15:9

    But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, even the young of the second birth, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them; but every thing that was of no account and feeble, that they de

    מֵיטַ֣ב mei.Tav “[the] best of”

  5. 1 Samuel 15:15

    And Saul said: 'They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.'

    מֵיטַ֤ב mei.Tav “[the] best of”