Strong’s H4315 · Hebrew

מֵיטָב
mêyṭâb
may-tawb'

Definition

the best part

Etymology

from H3190 (יָטַב);

Where the KJV renders it

  • best

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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