Psalm 4/Notes/Lexical.v. 7.87494

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  • In the context of a harvest (see v. 8), the word good (טוֹב) might be a metonymy for "rain" as, e.g., in Jer 5:25 and Ps 85:13 (cf. DCH). As Dahood notes, "the 'good' par excellence in Palestine is the rain, so that in a number of texts tov without further modification concretely signifies 'rain'" (Dahood 1965, 25).