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# צוֹבָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6678

**Zoba** — used 10 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

Zoba [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6678/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צוֹבָא: n.pr.terr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6678/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.terr. Σουβα, rarely Σωβα(λ): an Aramaean kingdom, time of (Saul and) David אֲרַם צוֹבָא 2 S 10:6, 8 (elsewhere צוֹבָה), אֲרַם צוֹבָה ψ 60:2 (title); הֲדַדְעֶזֶר מֶלֶךְ צ׳ 2 S 8:3, 5, 12 = 1 Ch 18:3, 5; 1 K 11:23; 1 Ch 18:9; צ׳ also 19:6; חֲמַת צ׳ 2 Ch 8:3; orig. home of one of David’s heroes 2 S 23:36 (perhaps read also for n.pr.m. מִבְחָר ‖ 1 Ch 11:38, cf. Dr); מַלְכֵי צ׳ 1 S 14:47 (only here in Saul’s time); NöAram., in Ency. Bib., cf. ZMG xxv (1871), 113 ff. places between Hamath and Damascus (about Ḥums, Emesa), and so DlPa 279 f., who cp. Assyrian city Ṣubitu, cf. SchrCOT. 2 S 8:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Zobah (8); Zobah (2).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 23:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.36/#tree)

יִגְאָ֤ל בֶּן־נָתָן֙ מִצֹּבָ֔הס בָּנִ֖י הַגָּדִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Igal the.son of.Nathan from Zobah Bani the Gadite

*JPS 1917:* Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite;

[1 Chronicles 18:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.18.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.18.9/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁמַ֕ע תֹּ֖עוּ מֶ֣לֶךְ חֲמָ֑ת כִּ֚י הִכָּ֣ה דָוִ֔יד אֶת־כָּל־חֵ֖יל הֲדַדְעֶ֥זֶר מֶֽלֶךְ־צוֹבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.heard Tou the.king of.Hamath (dm).that he.had.defeated David (et) all the.army of.Hadadezer the.king of.Zobah

*JPS 1917:* And when Tou king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6678.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6678/): 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).