4315. metab
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metab: the best
Original Word: מֵיטַב
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: metab
Phonetic Spelling: (may-tawb')
Short Definition: best

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from 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
best

From yatab; the best part -- best.

see HEBREW yatab

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