טוֹבṬôwb
proper name [of a location]: a region beyond Jordan, north or northeast of Gilead, probably Aramean (Judges 11:3; Judges 11:5; 2 Samuel 10:6; 2 Samuel 10:8)
Pronunciation: tobe · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2897
Same root
- טוֹבṭôwb · H2896good (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)
- אִישׁ־טוֹבʼÎysh-Ṭôwb · H382Ish-Tob, a place in Palestine
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- Judges 11:3 So Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Soon he had a band of worthless rebels following him.
- Judges 11:5 When the Ammonites attacked, the elders of Gilead sent for Jephthah in the land of Tob.
- 2 Samuel 10:6 When the people of Ammon realized how seriously they had angered David, they sent and hired 20,000 Aramean foot soldiers from the lands of Beth-rehob and Zobah, 1,000 from the king of Maacah, and 12,000 from the land of Tob.
- 2 Samuel 10:8 The Ammonite troops came out and drew up their battle lines at the entrance of the city gate, while the Arameans from Zobah and Rehob and the men from Tob and Maacah positioned themselves to fight in the open fields.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).