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# טוֹבִיָּהוּ

Biblical Hebrew

**Tobiah** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Tobiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/lemma_3a_5d8_5d5_5b9_5d1_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טוֹבִיָּ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/lemma_3a_5d8_5d5_5b9_5d1_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (Yah(u) is my good)— טוֹבִיָּהוּ a Levite, assigned to reign of Jehoshaphat 2 Ch 17:8, not 𝔊; 𝔊L Τωβιας, elsewhere טוֹבִיָּה 𝔊 Τωβια(ς). Ammonite adversary of Nehem. Ne 2:10, 19; 3:35; 4:1; 6:1, 12, 14, 17(×2), 19; 13:4, 7, 8. head of a family of returning exiles of doubtful lineage Ezr 2:60 = Ne 7:62. a chief of returning exiles Zc 6:10, 14, 𝔊 χρησίμων (-μοις) αὐτῆς, i.e. טוֹבֶיהָ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Tobijah (1).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 17:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.17.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.17.8/#tree)

וְעִמָּהֶ֣ם הַלְוִיִּ֗ם שְֽׁמַֽעְיָ֡הוּ וּנְתַנְיָ֡הוּ וּזְבַדְיָ֡הוּ וַעֲשָׂהאֵ֡ל וּשְׁמִֽירָמ֡וֹת וִֽיהוֹנָתָן֩ וַאֲדֹ֨נִיָּ֧הוּ וְטֽוֹבִיָּ֛הוּ וְט֥וֹב אֲדוֹנִיָּ֖ה ט֥וֹב אֲדוֹנִיָּ֖ה הַלְוִיִּ֑ם וְעִמָּהֶ֛ם אֱלִישָׁמָ֥ע וִֽיהוֹרָ֖ם הַכֹּהֲנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and.\[were\] with them the Levites Shemaiah and Nethaniah and Zebadiah and Asahel and Shemiramoth and Jonathan and Adonijah and Tobijah and Tob-Adonijah Tob-Adonijah the Levites and.\[were\] with them Elishama and Jehoram the priests

*JPS 1917:* and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d8_5d5_5b9_5d1_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/lemma_3a_5d8_5d5_5b9_5d1_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).