1 Samuel 8:16
And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
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1 Kings 20:3
Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.
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טוֹב
ṭôwb · tobe
2 times translated as this KJV form558 total Strong's occurrences
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)
Strong's KJV usage: beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, × fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, × most, pleasant, pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well(-favoured).
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 8:16Strong's last: 1 Kings 20:3
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And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
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Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.
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goodly
GOOD'LY, adverb Excellently.
GOOD'LY, adjective Being of a handsome form; beautiful; graceful; as a goodly person; goodly raiment; goodly houses.
1. Pleasant; agreeable; desirable; as goodly days.
2. Bulky; swelling; affectedly turgid.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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