Good טוֹב

Inspiring Words Knight Vision · Jan 3, 2025 · 1m

Our word for today is first used in the Bible in the context of God creating. We see our all-powerful God making value judgments about his work that it was good. This is our word טוֹב good, pleasant, desirable, merry, agreeable. It is used 480 times in the Hebrew Bible our Old Testament. We see this word used seven times during his creating everything that exists, always in the phrase that God saw that it was good. The last time he declares that it was very good. The word for very is מְאֹד which means strength, power. So, it was powerful good, strength good, very good. God literally says…