Definition

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

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders 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)

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.