What is the Strong's number for Yatab?

The Strong's number for Yatab (יָטַב) is H3190. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Yatab (Strong’s H3190): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Yatab mean?

Yatab (יָטַב, Strong's H3190) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right). The King James Bible translates it as be accepted, amend, use aright, benefit, be (make) better, seem best, make cheerful, be comely, be content, diligent(-ly), dress, earnestly, find favour, give, be glad, do (be, make) good(-ness), be (make) merry, please ( well), shew more (kindness), skilfully, × very small, surely, make sweet, thoroughly, tire, trim, very, be (can, deal, entreat, go, have) well (said, seen).

Yatab (יָטַב) is the Hebrew word numbered H3190 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right). In the King James Bible it is translated be accepted, amend, use aright, benefit, be (make) better.

יָטַב

yâṭab · Hebrew

Strong’s H3190 · yaw-tab'

Original wordיָטַב
Transliterationyâṭab
Pronunciationyaw-tab'
Part of speechverb (v)
Strong’s numberH3190
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

be accepted, amend, use aright, benefit, be (make) better, seem best, make cheerful, be comely, be content, diligent(-ly), dress, earnestly, find favour, give, be glad, do (be, make) good(-ness), be (make) merry, please ( well), shew more (kindness), skilfully, × very small, surely, make sweet, thoroughly, tire, trim, very, be (can, deal, entreat, go, have) well (said, seen). (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Where Yatab appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Yatab (H3190) stands behind 110 English renderings in 102 verses across 25 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Deuteronomy (19), Jeremiah (17), Genesis (13).

How the King James Bible renders Yatab, by count

well35 of 110 (32 percent)
good21 of 110 (19 percent)
pleased11 of 110 (10 percent)
merry5 of 110 (5 percent)
amend4 of 110 (4 percent)
better4 of 110 (4 percent)

Three places to read Yatab

Genesis 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
Joshua 22:30 And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.
Psalms 49:18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Yatab in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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