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# טוֹב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2897

**Tob** — used 4 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

Tob [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2897/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טוֹב⁴: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2897/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (perh. from above √)—a region beyond Jordan, N. or NE. of Gilead, prob. Aramean; אֶרֶץ טוֹב Ju 11:3, 5, 𝔊 Τωβ; אישׁ טוֹב 2 S 10:6, 8 men of Ṭôb, 𝔊 (Ε)ιστωβ; = Τούβιον, Τώβιον 1 Macc 5:13; identif. by ConderHandb. 295 with southern Bashan, where is still Taiyibeh, 12 m. SE. from Sea of Galilee.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Tob (4).

## In the verses

[Judges 11:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.11.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.11.5/#tree)

וַיְהִ֕י כַּאֲשֶׁר־נִלְחֲמ֥וּ בְנֵֽי־עַמּ֖וֹן עִם־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיֵּֽלְכוּ֙ זִקְנֵ֣י גִלְעָ֔ד לָקַ֥חַת אֶת־יִפְתָּ֖ח מֵאֶ֥רֶץ טֽוֹב׃

*Word for word:* and it.was when they.fought the.people of.Ammon with Israel and they.went the.elders of.Gilead to fetch (et) Jephthah from the.land of.Tob

*JPS 1917:* And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob.

[Judges 11:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.11.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.11.3/#tree)

וַיִּבְרַ֤ח יִפְתָּח֙ מִפְּנֵ֣י אֶחָ֔יו וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב בְּאֶ֣רֶץ ט֑וֹב וַיִּֽתְלַקְּט֤וּ אֶל־יִפְתָּח֙ אֲנָשִׁ֣ים רֵיקִ֔ים וַיֵּצְא֖וּ עִמּֽוֹ׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.fled Jephthah from before brothers his and he.dwelt in the.land of.Tob and they.joined.themselves to Jephthah men worthless and they.went.out with him

*JPS 1917:* Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob; and there were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they went out with him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2897.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2897/): 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).