טוֹבִיָּהṬôwbîyâh

proper name, masculine: Yah(u) is my, good

Pronunciation: to-bee-yaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2900

Meanings

1. a Levite, assigned to reign of Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 17:8)

2. Ammonite adversary of Nehemiah (Nehemiah 2:10; Nehemiah 2:19; Nehemiah 3:35)

3. head of a family of returning exiles of doubtful lineage (Ezra 2:60; Nehemiah 7:62)

4. a chief of returning exiles (Zechariah 6:10; Zechariah 6:14)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 18 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Chronicles 17:8 He sent Levites along with them, including Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-Adonijah. He also sent out the priests Elishama and Jehoram.
  • Ezra 2:60 This group included the families of Delaiah, Tobiah, and Nekoda—a total of 652 people.
  • Nehemiah 2:10 But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard of my arrival, they were very displeased that someone had come to help the people of Israel.
  • Nehemiah 2:19 But when Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem the Arab heard of our plan, they scoffed contemptuously. “What are you doing? Are you rebelling against the king?” they asked.
  • Nehemiah 4:3 Tobiah the Ammonite, who was standing beside him, remarked, “That stone wall would collapse if even a fox walked along the top of it!”
  • Nehemiah 4:7 But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites heard that the work was going ahead and that the gaps in the wall of Jerusalem were being repaired, they were furious.
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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).