Tob
Bible Usage:
- Tob used twice.
- First Reference: Judges 11:3
- Last Reference: Judges 11:5
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: Yes
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: Yes
- Included in Websters: No
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H2897 Used 2 times
good; goodness
A district in Syria
Judges 11:3; Judges 11:5
Called Ish-Tob
2 Samuel 10:6; 2 Samuel 10:8
(good), The land of, a place in which Jephthah took refuge when expelled from home by his half-brother, (Judges 11:3) and where he remained, at the head of a band of freebooters, till he was brought back by the sheikhs of Gilead. ver. 5. The narrative implies that the land of Tob was not far distant from Gilead; at the same time, from the nature of the case it must have lain out toward the eastern deserts. It is undoubtedly mentioned again in (2 Samuel 10:6,8) as Ishtob, i.e. man of Tob , meaning, according to a common Hebrew idiom, the men of Tob. After a long interval it appears again, in the Maccab'an history, 1 Macc. 5.13, in the names Tobie and Tubieni. 2 Macc. 12.17. No identification of the ancient, district with any modern one has yet been attempted.