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Ecclesiastes 7:3

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Masoretic Text 1524

H2896 is better טוב

H3708 Sorrow כעס

H7814 משׂחק

H3588 for כי

H7455 by the sadness ברע

H6440 of the countenance פנים

H3190 ייטב

H3820 the heart לב׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H3708 Sorrow

H2896 better

than

H4480 laughter

H3588 for

the

H7455 sadness

the

H6440 countenance

the

H3820 heart

made

H2896 better

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H3190

Hebrew: יָטַב

Transliteration: yâṭab

Pronunciation: yaw-tab'

Part of Speech: Verb

Bible Usage: be {accepted} {amend} use {aright} {benefit} be (make) {better} seem {best} make {cheerful} be {comely} + be {content} diligent ({-ly}) {dress} {earnestly} find {favour} {give} be {glad} do ({be} make) good ({[-ness]}) be (make) {merry} please (+ {well}) shew more {[kindness]} {skilfully} X-(idiom) very {small} {surely} make {sweet} {thoroughly} {tire} {trim} {very} be ({can} {deal} {entreat} {go} have) well {[said} seen ].

Definition:

to be (causatively) make {well} literally ({sound } beautiful) or figuratively ({happy } {successful } right)

1. to be good, be pleasing, be well, be glad

a. (Qal)

1. to be glad, be joyful

2. to be well placed

3. to be well for, be well with, go well with

4. to be pleasing, be pleasing to

b. (Hiphil)

1. to make glad, rejoice

2. to do good to, deal well with

3. to do well, do thoroughly

4. to make a thing good or right or beautiful

5. to do well, do right

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906