GOOD. This word is used very frequently for beautiful, agreeable; for something perfect in its kind. God beheld every thing that he had created, and it was perfectly Gen. i. 31.Good; Et erant valde bona. Every creature had the goodness, beauty, perfection which it required. This man never prophesieth any thing Good unto me, nothing agreeable. 2 Chr. xviii. 7. 1 Sam. xxv. 8.We came hither in a Good Day, a festival day, a day of joy. If this seemeth Good in your eyes; if it is agreeable to you. Moses’s parents saw that he was a very fine child; literally, that he was Good. Unless I had believed Exod. ii. 2. Psal. xxvii. 13. Jer. vii. 3to see the Goods of the Lord in the land of the living; to enjoy the happiness of heaven. Make good your ways and your inclinations; behave yourselves like good men.
A Good Eye signifies Liberality; an Evil Eye, a covetous, envious Person. See the Article Eyes.