2. Of good qualitri {as compared mth others of its kind), highly esteemed: Gn 1* 'And God saw the light that it was good ' ; 2'- ' And the gold of that land is good ' ; 43" ' Take of the best fruits in the land ' (RV ' choice ') ; 1 K 2^ 'Wlio fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword ' ; 10'* ' Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold' (RV 'finest') ; Ps 111"* 'A good understanding have all they that do his commandments' ; Ec 7' ' A good name is better than precious ointment' (Heb. 'a name ') ; Sir 26-' ' Ha\'ing the confidence of their good descent ' ; Mt 7" ' Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit ' ; 12'^ ' How much then is a man better than a sheep?' (RV 'of more value,' Gr. ir6(tif 5ia<pepei) ; Lk S** ' No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new ; for he saith, The old is better' (TR xpv^'^^^po^, most edd. XPVTd! whence RV 'good'); Ac 10-- 'of good report' (Gr. napTvpov/ici'os, RV 'well reported of); 23' ' I have lived in all "ood conscience ' (Trdirj; <nivfi5>}ffei &ya8y) ; 1 Co 12" ' Covet earnestly the best gifts' (TR KpeiTTova; edd. iiei^ova, RV 'greater') ; Ph 2' ' Let each esteem others better than them- selves ' ; 1 Ti 3' ' To have a good report ' ; Ja 2= ' Sit thou here in a good place ' (Kddov CiSe n-aXils).
3. Profitable, advantageous: Pr 31"* 'She pcr- ceiveth that her merchandise is good' (RV ' profit- able') ; Ec 9-' 'A living dog is better than a dead lion' ; 10" 'and a babbler is no better' (RV ' then is there no advantage in the charmer'); Mt 18' ' It were better for liim that a millstone were hanged about his ne<k' (RV 'it is profitable'); Lk 14" 'Salt is good.' And the phrase 'good for nothing' Jer 13'", Wis 13'», Mt 5'».
4. Befitting, appropriate: Gn 40" 'Wlien th« chief baker saw that the interpretation was good ' ; Ru 2'" ' It Ls good, my dau^Jiter, tliat thou go out with his maidens ' ; 2 S 17' ' The counsel that Ahithophel hath given is not good at this time'; Pr 19'' ' That the soul be without knowledge, it is not good ' ; Ec 7" ' Wisdom is good witli an inheritance'; Mt 17* 'It is good for us to be here'; Mk 14" 'Good were it for that man if he liad never been bom ' ; 1 Co 5° ' Your glorying is not good.'
5. Ifiippy, prosperous: Ps 112' 'A good man showeth favour' (pin rf-x-Dio, RV 'Well is it with the man that dealeth graciously ' ; Perowne, ' Happy is the man ' ; but A V may have under- stood the word in the moral sense). In OT 310 is an ejnthet of the heart, but EV tr. otherwise : 1 K 12'||2Ch 10' 'glad'; Est 5» 'glad'; Pr 5" AV 'murry,' RV 'cheerful'; Ec 9' 'merry.' But we find in Apocr., Sir 30-^ 'A cheerful and good lieart will have a care of his meat and diet' ; and Bar 4** 'Take a good heart, O Jerusalem.' Cf. the phrase ' of good cheer ' ( = in old Eng. ' of happy countenance,' since the 'cheer' was the 'face'), generally as an imperative, 'Be of good cheer ! ' Est 15-', Wis 18«, Bar 4», Mt 9= 14-'', Mk G»", Jn 16^, Ac '23" 27'^ ; hut also Ac 27" ' I exhort you to be of good cheer ' ; 27'' ' Then were they all of good cheer'; and, in a somewhat diirerent sense, Sir 18** 'Take not pleasure in much good cheer.' So Herbert, Temple, ' Employment,' 16 —
' Life is a businesse, not good-cheer.'
6. Kind, gracious: 1 S 25" 'But the men wera very good unto us, and we were not hurt ' ; 2 Ch 30'* ' The good LORD pardon every one ' ; Ps 86' ' For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive' ; Nah 1' 'The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble' ; Sir 35' 'Give the Lord his honour with a good eye' {iv d7aS<f) 6<ft0a\ij.(f} ; 2 Mac 11' ' They and all the people with lamentation and tears besought the Lord that he would send a good angel to deliver Israel ' ; Tit 2° ' Keeiiers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands' (RV 'kidd'). Cf. Milton, Lyeidas, 184—
' Henceforth thou art the genius of the shore, In thy large recompense, and slialt be good To ati that wander in that perilous floc^'
And PL viii. 651—
' Thou to Manltind Be good and friendly still, and oft return I*
7. Upright, righteous, morally and religiously good : 1 S 12^ ' I will teach you the good and the ri<;ht way ' ; Mic 6' ' He hath showed thee, O man, what is good'; 7- 'The good man is perished out of the earth ' ; Mt 5" ' He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good.'