Occurrences
Mêyṭâb occurs 6 times in 5 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), Exodus (1), 1 Samuel (2)
- Genesis 47:6 — The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best (בְּמֵיטַ֣ב) of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
- Genesis 47:11 — And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best (בְּמֵיטַ֥ב) of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
- Exodus 22:5 — If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man’s field; of the best (מֵיטַ֥ב) of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
- Exodus 22:5 — If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man’s field; of the best of his own field, and of the best (וּמֵיטַ֥ב) of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
- 1 Samuel 15:9 — But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best (מֵיטַ֣ב) of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
- 1 Samuel 15:15 — And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best (מֵיטַ֤ב) of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.