Strong's Concordance metab: the best Original Word: מֵיטָבPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: metab Phonetic Spelling: (may-tawb') Definition: the best NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom yatab Definition the best NASB Translation best (6). Brown-Driver-Briggs (מֵיטָב) noun [masculine] the best, only construct מֵיטַב and as superlative; the best of a thing: ׳שָׂדֵהוּ וּמ ׳מ כָּרְמוֺ Exodus 22:4 (JE) the best of his field and the best of his vineyard (choicest fruit); הַצּאֹן ׳מ the best of the sheep 1 Samuel 15:9,15; הָאָרֶץ ׳בְּמ in the best of the land Genesis 47:6,11 (P). יֻטָּה, יוּטָה see below נטה. יְטוּר see below טוּר. יין (√ of following; meaning unknown; regarded as loan-word by LagArmen. Stud. § 484 and others; HomZMG 1889, 653 ff.; Aufsätze, 1892, 102 compare Georgian g'wino, wine whence also (according to him) Armenian gini, Greek οῖνος, Latin vinum; compare on the other hand Jenl.c. below) Strong's Exhaustive Concordance best From yatab; the best part -- best. see HEBREW yatab Forms and Transliterations בְּמֵיטַ֣ב בְּמֵיטַ֥ב במיטב וּמֵיטַ֥ב ומיטב מֵיטַ֣ב מֵיטַ֤ב מֵיטַ֥ב מיטב bə·mê·ṭaḇ bemeiTav bəmêṭaḇ mê·ṭaḇ meiTav mêṭaḇ ū·mê·ṭaḇ umeiTav ūmêṭaḇLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Genesis 47:6 HEB: לְפָנֶ֣יךָ הִ֔וא בְּמֵיטַ֣ב הָאָ֔רֶץ הוֹשֵׁ֥ב NAS: and your brothers in the best of the land, KJV: [is] before thee; in the best of the land INT: your disposal he the best of the land settle Genesis 47:11 Exodus 22:5 Exodus 22:5 1 Samuel 15:9 1 Samuel 15:15 6 Occurrences |