Gematria of Good
11 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “good” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 1,185 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 11
- Occurrences
- 1,185
- Distinct values
- 9
The 11 Hebrew words rendered “good”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:4בראשית א:דטוֹב
properly, vehemence, i.e. (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or superlative; especially when repeated)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:31בראשית א:לאמְאֹד
properly, kind, i.e. (religiously) pious (a saint)
First appearance ·Deuteronomy 33:8דברים לג:חחֲסִידֶךָ
good (as a noun), in the widest sense, especially goodness (superlative concretely, the best), beauty, gladness, welfare
First appearance ·Genesis 24:10בראשית כד:יטוּב
property (as gathered)
First appearance ·Genesis 12:5בראשית יב:הרְכוּשָׁם
to be (transitively, do or make) good (or well) in the widest sense
First appearance ·Numbers 11:18במדבר יא:יחטוֹב
success, advantage
First appearance ·Ecclesiastes 2:21קהלת ב:כאוּבְכִשְׁרוֹן
to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)
First appearance ·Genesis 4:7בראשית ד:זתֵּיטִיב
to push forward, in various senses (literal or figurative, transitive or intransitive)
First appearance ·Genesis 24:21בראשית כד:כאהַֽהִצְלִיחַ
properly, to ascend; figuratively, to be valuable (objectively; useful, subjectively; benefited)
First appearance ·1 Samuel 12:21שמואל א יב:כאיוֹעִילוּ
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of good?
The Tanakh renders “good” with 11 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: טוב = 17, מאד = 45, יטב = 21, and 6 more.
How do you say good in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 11 Hebrew words for “good”; the most frequent are טוב (ṭôwb), 620 times; מאד (mᵉʼôd), 300 times; יטב (yâṭab), 112 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.