tov describes what is favorable, pleasing, well, or beautiful, and in causative forms denotes doing good to someone.

The term most often marks a favorable evaluation: a proposal may be acceptable, a condition may be well, and tents, love, or music may be presented as beautiful or pleasing. In Hiphil forms, it describes doing good or better for someone, including divine action toward people.

1. Favorable, well, or beautiful · dominant

   Adjective and Qal forms evaluate a matter, condition, or object positively. In Esther 5:4 the adjective occurs in Esther's conditional request concerning the king's sight; in Deuteronomy 5:33 the Qal form occurs with walking in the commanded way so that it may be well; and in Numbers 24:5 the plural Qal form introduces Balaam's appraisal of Jacob's tents.

   Esther 5:4Deuteronomy 5:33Numbers 24:5Song of Songs 4:101 Samuel 16:23Nehemiah 2:5
2. Do good or make better · common

   Hiphil forms occur where an agent acts beneficially toward another. In Psalm 125:4 the imperative is directed to the LORD concerning the good and upright; in Ezekiel 36:11 the first-person sequential perfect stands in the promise to do better than at former beginnings; and in Jeremiah 32:41 the infinitive construct occurs in the declaration of rejoicing in doing good to them.

   Psalm 125:4Ezekiel 36:11Jeremiah 32:411 Kings 8:182 Kings 10:30Ezekiel 33:32

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB varies its presentation across whole clauses, using expressions such as “good,” “well,” “beautiful,” “pleasing,” and “do better.” These renderings confirm the clauses' positive evaluation or beneficial action without fixing a separate English equivalent in every occurrence.