Lexicon metab: the best Original Word: מֵיטַבPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: metab Phonetic Spelling: (may-tawb') Short Definition: best NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom yatabDefinitionthe best NASB Translationbest (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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