Psalms 34:10 — Word Study
WLCכְּ֭פִירִים רָשׁ֣וּ וְרָעֵ֑בוּ וְדֹרְשֵׁ֥י יְ֝הוָ֗ה לֹא־ יַחְסְר֥וּ כָל־ טֽוֹב׃
BSAthe LORDYᵉhôvâh [Yehovah, The covenant Name of God]
| Greek | English | Parsing |
|---|---|---|
| כְּ֭פִירִים | young lions | Noun common, masculine plural absolute |
| רָשׁ֣וּ | they are in want | Verb, Qal, perfect third person common plural |
| וְרָעֵ֑בוּ | and they are hungry | Conjunction, verb qal perfect third person common plural |
| וְדֹרְשֵׁ֥י | and [those who] seek | Conjunction, verb qal participle (active) masculine plural common |
| יְ֝הוָ֗ה | Yahweh | Noun proper |
| לֹא־ | not | Particle |
| יַחְסְר֥וּ | they lack | Verb, Qal, imperfect third person masculine plural |
| כָל־ | any | Noun common, masculine singular absolute |
| טֽוֹב׃ | good [thing] |
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| BSB | Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing. |
| KJV | The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing. |
| ASV | The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; But they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing. |
| YLT | Young lions have lacked and been hungry, And those seeking Jehovah lack not any good, |
| WEB | The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing. |
| BBE | The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing. |
Where they part company is in the rendering of יְ֝הוָ֗ה — see How Translations Differ.
The sentence has two main clauses joined by a conjunction, emphasizing the contrast between the two subjects.







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Deep Study — Psalms 34:10
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Context — The Blessings of Fearing the LORDgenerated
Psalm 34:10 presents a vivid contrast between the plight of young lions, typically seen as strong and powerful, and the security experienced by those who seek the LORD. The surrounding verses emphasize the importance of reverence for God, promising that those who fear Him will lack nothing essential. This psalm encourages believers to trust in God's provision and care, highlighting the difference between worldly strength and divine sustenance.
Cross References
| Reference | Text (BSB) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Psalm 104:21 | The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God. |
| 2 | Job 4:10–11 | The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken. |
| 3 | Luke 1:51–53 | He has performed mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who are proud in the thoughts of their hearts. |
| 4 | Psalm 84:11 | For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity. |
| 5 | Matthew 6:32 | For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. |
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — 5 references, hung on the phrase they belong to
The Key Word — כְּ֭פִירִים, Ke.fi.rimgenerated
The word כְּפִיר (*kefir*) specifically refers to 'young lions,' emphasizing their strength yet vulnerability. It is a masculine plural noun, suggesting a group of young lions, which contrasts with the following statements about lack and hunger.
This term is built from a root meaning 'to cover,' which may connect to the protective nature of a lion's mane or the enclosure of a village. The psalmist uses this imagery to illustrate that even the mightiest creatures can experience need, thereby underscoring the reliability of God for those who seek Him.
How Translations Differ — measured against the Berean Standard Biblegenerated
In the Berean Standard Bible, the verse uses go lacking and hungry to describe the young lions, while the KJV and ASV similarly convey the same meaning.
Sentence Structuregenerated
The verse consists of two main clauses connected by 'but', with the first clause focusing on the young lions and their needs, and the second clause addressing those who seek the LORD. The structure highlights the contrast between physical strength and spiritual reliance.
The finite verbs in the verse are רָשׁ֣וּ and רָעֵ֑בוּ, both describing the state of the young lions, while יַחְסְר֥וּ describes the lack experienced by those who do not seek the LORD.
Septuagint Backgroundgenerated
In the Septuagint, the Hebrew כְּפִירִים is rendered as φοβήθητε, which carries a sense of fear or reverence. This choice emphasizes the potential danger and vulnerability of even the strongest creatures, aligning with the psalm's message of reliance on God.
The translation reflects the understanding that true strength lies not in physical prowess but in seeking the divine, a theme prevalent in both the Hebrew text and its Greek interpretation.
In plain words — the whole versegenerated
Psalm 34:10 tells us that even strong young lions can go hungry, while those who seek the LORD will not lack any good thing. This verse reassures believers that God provides for those who trust in Him, contrasting human strength with divine provision.
Frequently Asked Questionsgenerated
To seek the LORD means to actively pursue a relationship with God, to trust in Him, and to look to Him for guidance and provision.
The comparison highlights that even the strongest creatures can experience lack, while those who seek God will find all they need, emphasizing God's faithfulness.
It means that God will provide for the needs of those who trust in Him, ensuring that they have everything necessary for their well-being.
You can seek the LORD through prayer, reading the Scriptures, worship, and being part of a community that encourages faith and trust in God.
Reflection Questionsgenerated
- In what areas of my life do I need to trust God more fully for provision?
- How can I actively seek the LORD in my daily routine?
- What does it mean for me to lack no good thing when I trust in God?
- How can I encourage others to seek the LORD and experience His provision?
The early church on this verse — how the Fathers read it
Early Church Fathers referenced this psalm to illustrate the stability and goodness of God's provision for those who seek Him.
Wealth is unstable and like a wave accustomed to change hither and thither by the violence of the wind.… God himself is absolute Good, and they who seek him will not be without him.Early Church Fathers on Psalms 34 →
The rich dwell in uncertainty concerning the things the world gives. The riches that God gives do not fail, but they remain because these riches arise in the fear of the Lord.Early Church Fathers on Psalms 34 →
Commentators on this verse — 8 expositors, verse by verse
Each of these wrote on Psalms 34:10 itself, not merely on the chapter around it.
John Gill1697–1771Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThe young lions do lack, and suffer hunger,.... According to Apollinarius, "the needy rich, whom famine presses;'' see Job 4:10; but they that seek the Lord; by prayer, diligently, with their whole
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Robert Jamieson1802–1880Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's CommentaryThe young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing. The young lions.
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Matthew Poole1624–1679Matthew Poole's Commentary on the Holy BibleThe young lions; either, 1. Properly: see . Or, 2. Metaphorically so called, the great potentates of the earth, who are oft so called, as . Shall not want any good thing, which is necessary and truly good for them, all circumstances considered; of which God alone is a competent judge. And therefore although God doth usually take a special care to supply the wants of good men, and hath oft done it by extraordinary ways, when ordinary have failed, yet sometimes he knows, and it is certainly true, that wants and crosses are more needful and useful to them than bread, and in such cases it is a greater mercy of God to deny them supplies than to grant them.
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John Trapp1601–1669Trapp's Complete Commentary on the Old and New TestamentsPsalms 34:10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good [thing].Ver. 10. The young lions do lack and suffer hunger] And yet they will have it, if it is to be had. Haec est sceleratorum imago, saith Beza. Lionlike wicked oppressors, rich cormorants, as the Septuagint render it, who live on the spoil of poor people, and are never satisfied, do yet perish with famine, as Eliphaz saith of the old lion, Job 4:11; and come oft to great poverty, so that they pine away and miserably perish, Donec misere tabescant (Beza.) But they that seek the Lord] That, content with his blessing alone, seek not their nourishment any other way but from his hand…
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Charles John Ellicott1819–1905Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) Young lions.—See Note, Psalms 17:12. The young lion is the emblem of power and self-resource. Yet these sometimes lack, but the earnest seekers after Divine truth and righteousness never. Instead of “lions,” the LXX. and Vulgate have “the rich.”
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AdamClarkeAdam Clarke's Commentary on the BibleVerse 10. The young lions do lack] Instead of כפירים kephirim, the young lions, one of Kennicott's MSS. has כבירים cabbirim, "powerful men." The Vulgate, Septuagint, AEthiopic, Syriac, Arabic, and Anglo-Saxon have the same reading. Houbigant approves of this; and indeed the sense and connection seem to require it. My old Psalter reads: - The Ryche had nede; and thai hungerd: but sekand Lard sal noght be lessed of alle gode. That es, says the paraphrase, with outen lessyng thai sal have God; that es alle gode; for in God is al gode.
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CambridgeThe Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges10. The young lions] Best understood literally, not as a metaphor for the rich (LXX πλούσιοι, though possibly from a different reading), or powerful oppressors (Psalms 35:17). The sense is that the strongest beasts of prey, most capable of providing for themselves, may suffer want (Job 4:11); not so God’s people. Cp. Psalms 23:1. For the touching connexion of these words with St Columba’s last hours see Ker’s Psalms in History and Biography, p. 62. He was transcribing the Psalter, and at this verse he laid down his pen. “Here at the end of the page I must stop; what follows let Baithen write.” “The last verse he had written,” says his biographer Adamnan, “was very applicable to the saint…
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Albert Barnes1798–1870Barnes' Notes on the BibleThe young lions do lack and suffer hunger - That is, they often do it, as compared with the friends of God. The allusion is especially to the “young” lions who are not able to go forth themselves in search of food.
Read Albert Barnes on Psalms 34 →The verse in English, compared — 17 translations, and where they part company
Every translation on this page is a decision someone had to make and commit to. Read down a column and you see one translator's judgement; read across a row and you see the range the Greek actually allows. The BSB is the wording the rest of this page is measured against, so it is listed first.
Modern formal
Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
Tyndale line
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; But they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing .
The lyons doe lacke and suffer hunger, but they, which seeke the Lord, shall want nothing that is good.
Strictly literal
The young lions are in need and suffer hunger; but they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good.
Young lions have lacked and been hungry, And those seeking Jehovah lack not any good,
Young lions have lacked and been hungry, || And those seeking YHWH do not lack any good,
(34:11) The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but those who seek the Lord shall not want any good.
The young lions sometimes lack food and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh will not lack anything good.
From the Latin
All my bones shall say: Lord, who is like to thee? Who deliverest the poor from the hand of them that are stronger than he; the needy and the poor from them that strip him.
Simplified
Lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who trust in the Lord have all that is good.
The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.
Counted from the translations carried on this site, not from a survey of every English Bible. A rendering shared by many versions is usually inherited rather than independently arrived at — the Tyndale line in particular runs through most of them.
The sentence as the grammar sees it — from the MACULA Hebrew treebank
This is not our own analysis: it is the scholarly syntax tree for the verse, showing how the clause actually holds together.
Boxes are the grammarian's groupings — clause, noun phrase, prepositional phrase.
The four witnesses to this verse — Masoretic, Septuagint, Samaritan, Qumran
The Masoretic Text and the Septuagint largely agree on the wording of this verse, with eight of the nine words matching. This consistency indicates a stable transmission of the text across these traditions, with only minor variations in word order.
כְּ֭פִירִים רָשׁ֣וּ וְרָעֵ֑בוּ וְדֹרְשֵׁ֥י יְ֝הוָ֗ה לֹא־ יַחְסְר֥וּ כָל־ טֽוֹב׃
8 of the 9 words are matched. This is the word-by-word correspondence, not the Septuagint's own sentence — its word order and its articles are its own.
Four traditions, not one. “On the leather” means the letters physically survive on the scroll, as against letters an editor has supplied to fill a hole in it — a restoration is a scholar’s reading, not a reading of the manuscript. Words in [square brackets] are supplied; the notes count them apart from what survives.
The map of this verse — what each word keeps company with
This is a map of two things, both counted rather than judged. Company kept: which words stand within three words of each of these, anywhere in the Hebrew Bible — the thicker the line, the more often the pair meet compared with chance. Built from: the words a word is made out of, taken from its own Strong’s entry. It is not a map of meaning: nothing here claims two words mean the same thing. Click any circle to see the numbers behind it.
Lexicons — every word in Psalms 34:10
One dossier per word, with every reference work grouped by kind — Hebrew lexicons, morphology, Bible dictionaries, topical chains and the English of the translators themselves. The verse sits at the head of each block with the word under study lit, so you never lose your place. The panel above gives the short answer; this is the long one, and it is the part of the page worth indexing.
Every entry below is the lexicographer's own text. On the Hebrew: Brown-Driver-Briggs entire and its gloss set, Strong's Hebrew Dictionary, and Tyndale House's Translators Brief lexicon. Where a cell says a work has no entry, that work genuinely has none for this word.
The Hebrew word כְּפִיר (*kefir*) primarily means 'young lion,' while its plural form כְּפִירִים (*kefirim*) likely refers to 'villages.' The word is built from the root associated with 'covering,' suggesting a connection to both young lions and enclosed spaces. It appears in Nehemiah 6:2.
כְּפִיר n.m. young lion
base
כְּפִירִים Ne 6:2, prob. = foregoing [כְּפִירָה] (𝔊 al. n. appell. = villages).
done
H3715a כְּפִיר young lion H3715b כְּפִירִים prob. = כְּפִירָה
3715 kphiyr kef-eer'
from 3722; a village (as covered in by walls); also a young
lion (perhaps as covered with a mane):--(young) lion, village.
Compare 3723.
see HEBREW for 03722
see HEBREW for 03723
כְּפִיר (ke.phir) — lion.
young lion
כְּפִירִים (ke.phi.rim) — Hakkephirim.
village
Another name of o.no (אוֹנוֹ "Ono" H0207)
כְּפִירִים (ke.phi.rim) — villages.
village
HNcmpa — Noun common · masculine plural absoluteHNcmpa
Lions
The most powerful of all carnivorous animals. Although not now found in Palestine, they must have been in ancient times very numerous there. They had their lairs in the forests (Jer. 5:6; 12:8; Amos 3:4), in the caves of the mountains (Cant. 4:8; Nah. 2:12), and in the canebrakes on the banks of the Jordan (Jer. 49:19; 50:44; Zech. 11:3).
No fewer than at least six different words are used in the Old Testament for the lion. (1.) Gor (i.e., a “suckling”), the lion’s whelp (Gen. 49:9;
רוּשׁ (ruwsh) means to be poor or in want, covering the state of lacking resources or necessities. It can refer to a poor man or the action of impoverishing oneself, as noted in various forms like the Qal and Hithpolel. The entries indicate a focus on destitution and neediness.
[רוּשׁ or רִישׁ] 24 vb. be in want, poor
Qal young lions are in want and hunger
Hithpō‛lēl one impoverishing himself
base
H7326 [רוּשׁ or רִישׁ] be in want, poor
7326 ruwsh roosh
a primitive root; to be destitute:--lack, needy, (make self)
poor (man).
רוּשׁ (rush) — be poor.
1) to be poor, be in want, lack
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be poor
1a2) to be in want or hunger
1a3) poor man (subst)
1b)(Hithpolel) one impoverishing himself (participle)
HVqp3cp — Verb · Qal · perfect third person common pluralHVqp3cp
רָעֵב (ra`eb) is a Hebrew verb meaning 'to be hungry.' It is a primitive root that can also imply allowing someone to hunger. The entries indicate its use in both the Qal and Hiphil stems, covering the basic state of hunger and the act of causing hunger.
רָעֵב vb. be hungry
Qal be hungry
Hiph. allow one to hunger
base
H7456 רָעֵב be hungry
7456 ra`eb raw-abe'
a primitive root; to hunger:--(suffer to) famish, (be, have,
suffer, suffer to) hunger(-ry).
רָעֵב (ra.ev) — be hungry.
1) to be hungry, be voracious
1a) (Qal) to be hungry
1b) (Hiphil) to allow one to be hungry, allow to hunger
HC/Vqp3cp — Conjunction · verb qal perfect third person common pluralHC/Vqp3cp
דָּרַשׁ (darash) is a Hebrew verb meaning to seek or inquire. It encompasses a range of actions from frequenting a place to consulting deities in prayer and worship. The word can imply a diligent search or demand, and it appears in both Qal and Niphal forms, indicating various nuances of seeking and being sought. The entries do not present any significant disagreement.
דָּרַשׁ 162 vb. resort to, seek
Qal
(tread a place,) resort to, frequent
seek, consult, inquire of
seek deity in prayer and worship
seek, with idea of demanding, require
inquire, investigate (a matter)
ask for, require, demand
seek with application, study, follow, practise
seek with care, care for
Niph.
let oneself be inquired of, consulted, only of God
be sought out
be required, of blood
base
H1875 דָּרַשׁ resort to, seek
1875 darash daw-rash'
a primitive root; properly, to tread or frequent; usually to
follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or
ask; specifically to worship:--ask, X at all, care for, X
diligently, inquire, make inquisition, (necro-)mancer,
question, require, search, seek (for, out), X surely.
דָּרַשׁ (da.rash) — to seek.
1) to resort to, seek, seek with care, enquire, require
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to resort to, frequent (a place), (tread a place)
1a2) to consult, enquire of, seek
1a2a) of God
1a2b) of heathen gods, necromancers
1a3) to seek deity in prayer and worship
1a3a) God
1a3b) heathen deities
1a4) to seek (with a demand), demand, require
1a5) to investigate, enquire
1a6) to ask for, require, demand
1a7) to practice, study, follow, seek with application
1a8) to seek with care, care for
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to allow oneself to be enquired of, consulted (only of God)
1b2) to be sought, be sought out
1b3) to be required (of blood)
HC/Vqrmpc — Conjunction · verb qal participle (active) masculine plural commonHC/Vqrmpc
יְהֹוָה (ye.ho.vah) is the proper name of the God of Israel, often rendered as Jehovah or the Lord. It signifies the self-existent or eternal nature of God. The name is closely associated with the revelation to Moses in Exodus 3:12-15 and is used in conjunction with other terms to denote sacred places. Some scholars suggest it derives from a root meaning 'to bring into being.'
יהוה c. 6823 i.e. יַהְוֶה n.pr.dei Yahweh, the proper name of the God of Israel—(1. MT יְהֹוָה 6518 (Qr אֲדֹנָי), or יֱהֹוִה 305 (Qr אֱלֹהִים) 2. Many recent scholars explain יַהְוֶה as Hiph. of הוה (= היה) the one bringing into being, life-giver)
יהוה is not used by E in Gn, but is given Ex 3:12-15 as the name of the God who revealed Himself to Moses at Horeb
יהוה is used with אלהים and suffixes, especially in D
the phrase † אֲנִי יהוה is noteworthy
יהוה is also used with several predicates, to form sacred names of holy places of Yahweh
base
H3068 יהוה i.e. יַהְוֶה n. pr. dei Yahweh, the proper name of the God of Israel
3068 Yhovah yeh-ho-vaw'
from 1961; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish
national name of God:--Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
see HEBREW for 01961
see HEBREW for 03050
see HEBREW for 03069
יְהֹוָה (ye.ho.vah) — LORD.
Jehovah = "the existing One"
1) the proper name of the one true God
1a) unpronounced except with the vowel pointings of a.do.na (אֲדֹנָי "Lord" H0136)
יְהֹוָה (ye.ho.vah) — The Lord.
Another name of ye.ru.sha.laim (יְרוּשָׁלִַ֫ם, יְרוּשְׁלֵם "Jerusalem" H3389)
יְהֹוָה (ye.ho.vah) — (Jerusalem of) the Lord.
Combined with ye.ru.sha.laim (יְרוּשָׁלִַ֫ם, יְרוּשְׁלֵם "Jerusalem" H3389)
N-proper — Noun properHNpt
לֹא (lo') is a Hebrew word meaning 'not' or 'no.' It serves as a simple negation and can imply absence or prohibition. The word can also be used in various contexts, often combined with other particles for emphasis or clarification. Its Aramaic equivalent is לָא (la), which also means 'not.'
לֹא or לוֹא adv. not
base
H3808 לֹא or לוֹא not
3808 lo' lo
or lowi {lo}; or loh (Deut. 3:11) {lo}; a primitive particle;
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often
used with other particles (as follows):--X before, + or else,
ere, + except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never,
no((-ne), -r, (-thing)), (X as though...,(can-), for) not (out
of), of nought, otherwise, out of, + surely, + as truly as, +
of a truth, + verily, for want, + whether, without.
לֹא (lo) — not.
1) not, no
1a) not (with verb-absolute prohibition)
1b) not (with modifier-negation)
1c) nothing (subst)
1d) without (with particle)
1e) before (of time)
Aramaic equivalent: la (לָא "not" H3809)
HTn — ParticleHTn
חָסֵר (chacer) is a Hebrew verb meaning to lack or be without. It encompasses various nuances such as diminishing, decreasing, and causing something to be lacking. The entries indicate its use in different forms, including Qal, Piel, and Hiphil, which reflect its active and causative aspects.
חָסֵר vb. lack, need, be lacking, decrease
Qal
lack
be lacking
diminish, decrease
Pi. cause to lack
Hiph. cause to be lacking, fail
base
H2637 חָסֵר lack, need, be lacking, decrease .. lack
. be lacking
. diminish, decrease
. cause to lack
. cause to be lacking, fail
2637 chacer khaw-sare'
a primitive root; to lack; by implication, to fail, want,
lessen:--be abated, bereave, decrease, (cause to) fail, (have)
lack, make lower, want.
חָסֵר (cha.ser) — to lack.
1) to lack, be without, decrease, be lacking, have a need
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to lack
1a2) to be lacking
1a3) to diminish, decrease
1b) (Piel) to cause to lack
1c) (Hiphil) to cause to be lacking
HVqi3mp — Verb · Qal · imperfect third person masculine pluralHVqi3mp
(forms of chacer, "to lack," ayin, "nought"): This word in its various forms has the usual meaning of "want," "need," "deficiency." There is but little change in the use of the word in the different versions. Sometimes one of the common synonyms is exchanged for the word itself, e.g. in the Old Testament, 1Sa 21:15 the Revised Version (British and American) has "lack" ("Do I lack madmen?") where the King James Version has "need of"; Pr 5:23, "for lack," instead of "without"; 6:32, "void of" for "lacketh"; 10:21, "lack" for "want"; 31:11, "lack" for "need"; Isa 59:15, "lacking" for "faileth." In the New Testament "lack" is the translation of hustereo, literally, "to be behind," and endees, "in want." In
כֹּל (kol) means 'all' or 'the whole.' It can refer to totality, including every person or thing, and is often used with a following genitive to specify what is included. The term can also denote a broader sense of everything in existence or all circumstances of life. The lexicons do not show significant disagreement on its meanings.
כֹּל once כּוֹל n.m. the whole, all
with foll. gen. (as usually) the whole of, to be rendered, however, often in our idiom, to avoid stiffness, any or every
Absolutely:
without the art., all things, all
with the art. הַכֹּל
where the sense is limited by the context to things (or persons) just mentioned
in a wider sense, all, whether of all mankind or of all living things, the universe, or of all the circumstances of life (chiefly late)
base
H3605 כֹּל once כּוֹל the whole, all . with foll. gen. (as usually) the whole of, to be rendered, however, often in our idiom, to avoid stiffness, any or every
. Absolutely: . without the art., all things, all
. with the art. הַכֹּל . where the sense is limited by the context to things (or persons) just mentioned
. in a wider sense, all, whether of all mankind or of all living things, the universe, or of all the circumstances of life (chiefly late)
3605 kol kole
or (Jer. 33:8) kowl {kole}; from 3634; properly, the whole;
hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a
plural sense):--(in) all (manner, (ye)), altogether, any
(manner), enough, every (one, place, thing), howsoever, as
many as, (no-)thing, ought, whatsoever, (the) whole,
whoso(-ever).
see HEBREW for 03634
כֹּל (kol) — all.
1) all, the whole
1a) all, the whole of
1b) any, each, every, anything
1c) totality, everything
Aramaic equivalent: kol (כֹּל "all" H3606)
HNcmsa — Noun common · masculine singular absoluteHNcmsa
טוֹב (tov) is a Hebrew word meaning good or pleasant, encompassing a wide range of meanings from agreeable to the senses to ethical goodness. It can function as an adjective, noun, or adverb, referring to things like welfare, happiness, and prosperity. The feminine form, טוֹבָה (tovah), specifically denotes welfare or good things.
טוֹב adj. pleasant, agreeable, good
pleasant, agreeable to the senses
pleasant to the higher nature, giving pleasure, happiness, prosperity, and so agreeable, pleasing, well
good, excellent, of its kind
good, rich, valuable in estimation
good, appropriate, becoming
c. מִן compar. = better
of man's sensuous nature, glad, happy, prosperous
of man's intellectual nature, good understanding
good, kind, benign
good (ethical), right
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טוֹב n.m. a good thing, benefit, welfare
welfare, prosperity, happiness
good things
good = benefit
moral good
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טוֹבָה n.f. welfare, benefit, good things, good
welfare, prosperity, happiness
good things
bounty, good
base
H2896a טוֹב pleasant, agreeable, good . pleasant, agreeable to the senses
. pleasant to the higher nature, giving pleasure, happiness, prosperity, and so agreeable, pleasing, well
. good, excellent, of its kind
. good, rich, valuable in estimation
. good, appropriate, becoming
. c. מִן compar. =better
. of man's sensuous nature, glad, happy, prosperous
. of man's intellectual nature, good understanding
. good, kind, benign
. good (ethical), right
H2896b טוֹב a good thing, benefit, welfare H2896c טוֹבָה welfare, benefit, good things, good
2896 towb tobe
from 2895; good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used
likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine,
the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a
good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or
women), also as an adverb (well):--beautiful, best, better,
bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour,
fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s),
graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving,
merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious,
prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well
((-favoured)).
see HEBREW for 02895
טוֹב (tov) — pleasant.
adj
1) good, pleasant, agreeable
1a) pleasant, agreeable (to the senses)
1b) pleasant (to the higher nature)
1c) good, excellent (of its kind)
1d) good, rich, valuable in estimation
1e) good, appropriate, becoming
1f) better (comparative)
1g) glad, happy, prosperous (of man's sensuous nature)
1h) good understanding (of man's intellectual nature)
1i) good, kind, benign
1j) good, right (ethical)
Aramaic equivalent: tav (טָב "fine" H2869)
טוֹב (tov) — good.
1) a good thing, benefit, welfare
1a) welfare, prosperity, happiness
1b) good things (collective)
1c) good, benefit
1d) moral good
טוֹבָה (to.vah) — welfare.
1) welfare, benefit, good things
1a) welfare, prosperity, happiness
1b) good things (collective)
1c) bounty
HAamsa — HAamsa
