1) the best 1a) as superlative
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H4315 — מֵיטָב
me.tav · best · Hebrew/Aramaic
5 tagged verse occurrences
Genesis 47:6 · בְּמֵיטַ֣בThe land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”Genesis 47:11 · בְּמֵיטַ֥בJoseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.Exodus 22:5 · מֵיטַ֥ב · וּמֵיטַ֥ב“If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.1 Samuel 15:9 · מֵיטַ֣בBut Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the cattle, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and wouldn’t utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.1 Samuel 15:15 · מֵיטַ֤בSaul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.”