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# טֹובִיָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2900

**Tobiah** — used 17 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Tobiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2900/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טוֹבִיָּ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2900/#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: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Tobiah (14); of Tobiah (3).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:60](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.60/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.60/#tree)

בְּנֵי־דְלָיָ֥ה בְנֵי־טוֹבִיָּ֖ה בְּנֵ֣י נְקוֹדָ֑א שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Delaiah the.descendants of.Tobiah the.descendants of.Nekoda six hundred(s) fifty and two

*JPS 1917:* the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.

[Nehemiah 7:62](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.62/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.62/#tree)

בְּנֵי־דְלָיָ֥ה בְנֵֽי־טוֹבִיָּ֖ה בְּנֵ֣י נְקוֹדָ֑א שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת וְאַרְבָּעִ֥ים וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Delaiah the.descendants of.Tobiah the.descendants of.Nekoda six hundred(s) and forty and two

*JPS 1917:* the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2900.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2900/): 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).