King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H2900
Transliteration: Tobiyyahu or Tobiyyah
Phonetic Spelling: (to-bee-yaw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "Yah is my good", three Israelites, also an Ammonite
Meaning: Tobiah -- "Yah is my good", three Israelites, also an Ammonite
Word Summary
Tobiyyahu or Tobiyyah: "Yah is my good", three Israelites, also an Ammonite
Original Word: טוֹבִיָּהTransliteration: Tobiyyahu or Tobiyyah
Phonetic Spelling: (to-bee-yaw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "Yah is my good", three Israelites, also an Ammonite
Meaning: Tobiah -- "Yah is my good", three Israelites, also an Ammonite
Strong's Concordance
Tobiah, Tobijah Or Towbiyahuw {to-bee-yaw'-hoo}; from towb and Yahh; goodness of Jehovah; Tobijah, the name of three Israelites and of one Samaritan -- Tobiah, Tobijah.
see HEBREW towb
see HEBREW Yahh
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2900. Tobiyyahu
or Tobiyyah טוֺבִיָּה טוֺבִיָּ֫הוּ, proper name, masculine (Yah(u) is my good) —
1 טוֺבִיָּהוּ a Levite, assigned to reign of Jehoshaphat 2 Chronicles 17:8, not ᵐ5; ᵐ5L Τωβιας, elsewhere ᵐ5 טוֺבִיָּה Τωβια(ς).
2 Ammonite adversary of Nehem. Nehemiah 2:10, 19; Nehemiah 3:35; 4:1; 6:1, 12, 14, 17 (twice in verse); 6:19; 13:4, 7, 8.
3 head of a family of returning exiles of doubtful lineage Ezra 2:60 = Nehemiah 7:62.
4 a chief of returning exiles Zechariah 6:10, 14, ᵐ5 χρησίμων(+?)αὐτῆς, i.e. טוֺבֶיהָ.