Word study

Bounty

5 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “bounty”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “bounty” or one of its forms.

Compare the Hebrew words side by side

Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • יָד yâdhandtranslated this way 3 times of its 1,403 uses · Strong’s H3027Noun  ·  Translated: hand 664, hands 349, through 64, power 22Full study and all 1,290 verses →
  • טוֹב ṭôbpleasant, agreeable, goodtranslated this way 3 times of its 538 uses · Strong’s H2896Adjective  ·  Translated: good 249, better 72, prosperity 19, good things 12Full study and all 499 verses →
  • טוּב ṭûbgood things, goods, goodnesstranslated this way 2 times of its 32 uses · Strong’s H2898Noun  ·  Translated: goodness 11, best 4, good things 3, prosperity 3

    Jeremiah 2:7 I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land and made My inheritance detestable.

    Jeremiah 31:12 They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD — the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.

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  • תַּאֲוָה taăvâhdesiretranslated this way 1 time of its 19 uses · Strong’s H8378Noun  ·  Translated: desire 9

    Genesis 49:26 The blessings of your father have surpassed the blessings of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince of his brothers.

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  • מֶגֶד megedexcellencetranslated this way 1 time of its 8 uses · Strong’s H4022Noun  ·  Translated: choicest 2

    Deuteronomy 33:15 with the best of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills,

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • καρπός karpósfruit, result, gaintranslated this way 1 time of its 63 uses · Strong’s G2590Noun  ·  Translated: fruit 45, crop 6, crops 3, grain 2

    Romans 15:28 So after I have completed this service and have safely delivered this bounty to them, I will set off to Spain by way of you.

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.