Lexical Summary metab: the best Original Word: מֵיטָבTransliteration: metab Phonetic Spelling: (may-tawb') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: the best Meaning: the best part Strong's Concordance best From yatab; the best part -- best. see HEBREW yatab Brown-Driver-Briggs H4315. metab (מֵיטָב) noun [masculine] the best, only construct מֵיטַב and as superlative; the best of a thing: כָּרְמוֺ ׳מ וּמ ׳שָׂדֵהוּ Exodus 22:4 (JE) the best of his field and the best of his vineyard (choicest fruit); ׳מ הַצּאֹן the best of the sheep 1 Samuel 15:9, 15; ׳בְּמ הָאָרֶץ in the best of the land Genesis 47:6, 11 (P). יוּטָה יֻטָּה, see below נטה. יְטוּר see below טוּר. יין (√ of following; meaning unknown; regarded as loan-word by LagArmen. Stud. § 484 and others; HomZMG 1889, 653 ff.; Aufsätze, 1892, 102 compare Georgian g'wino, wine whence also (according to him) Armenian gini, Greek οῖνος, Latin vinum; compare on the other hand Jenl.c. below) |
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