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Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H2900

טוֹבִיָּה

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Tobijah

18 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: Ṭôwbîyâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2900is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 4 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 13
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2900

Tobijah, the name of three Israelites and of one Samaritan

The King James renders it: Tobiah, Tobijah.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

Tobiah is rendered "Tobijah". It stands 18 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.

  • Fourteen of the uses stand in Nehemiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Chronicles 17:8accompanied by certain Levites—Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah—along with the priests Elishama and Jehoram.
  • The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.

The first use

accompanied by certain Levites—Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah—along with the priests Elishama and Jehoram.

2 Chronicles 17:8וְטֽוֹבִיָּ֛הוּ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Fourteen of the word's eighteen uses are in Nehemiah.

The other 35 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and Tobiah6
  • Tobiah6
  • to Tobiah3
  • and to Tobiah1
  • and Tobijah1
  • for Tobiah1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

טוֹבtobpleasantUses538
טוֹבtobbe pleasingUses45

All 18, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

13 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • טוֹבִיָּ֖ה4
  • וְטוֹבִיָּ֥ה2
  • וְ֠טוֹבִיָּה2
  • וְטֹבִיָּ֣ה׀1
  • וְטֽוֹבִיָּה֙1
  • וְטֽוֹבִיָּ֛הוּ1
  • וּלְטוֹבִיָּ֣ה1
  • טוֹבִיָּ֑ה1
  • טוֹבִיָּ֛ה1
  • לְטוֹבִיָּ֥ה1
  • לְטוֹבִיָּ֖ה1
  • לְט֣וֹבִיָּ֔ה1

and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)7HC/Npm
  • proper noun (a name)6HNpm
  • preposition + proper noun (a name)4HR/Npm
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1HC/R/Npm

2 Chronicles

one use
  • accompanied by certain Levites—Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah—along with the priests Elishama and Jehoram.

    2 Chronicles 17:8

    • וְטֽוֹבִיָּ֛הוּvetoiyahuconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Tobijah

Ezra

one use
  • the descendants of Delaiah, the descendants of Tobiah, and the descendants of Nekoda, 652 in all.

    Ezra 2:60

    • טוֹבִיָּ֖הtoiyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Tobiah

Nehemiah

fourteen uses
  • But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard about this, they were deeply disturbed that someone had come to seek the well-being of the Israelites.

    Nehemiah 2:10

    • וְטֽוֹבִיָּה֙vetoiyahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Tobiah
  • But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

    Nehemiah 2:19

    • וְטֹבִיָּ֣ה׀vetoiyahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Tobiah
  • Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, “If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!”

    Nehemiah 4:3

    • וְטוֹבִיָּ֥הvetoiyahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Tobiah
  • When Sanballat and Tobiah, together with the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they were furious,

    Nehemiah 4:7

    • וְ֠טוֹבִיָּהvetoiyahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Tobiah
  • When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—

    Nehemiah 6:1

    • וְ֠טוֹבִיָּהvetoiyahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Tobiah
  • I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had uttered this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

    Nehemiah 6:12

    • וְטוֹבִיָּ֥הvetoiyahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Tobiah
  • O my God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat for what they have done, and also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets who tried to intimidate me.

    Nehemiah 6:14

    • לְטוֹבִיָּ֥הletoiyahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Tobiah
  • Also in those days, the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came back to them.

    Nehemiah 6:17

    • טוֹבִיָּ֑הtoiyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Tobiah
    • לְטוֹבִיָּ֖הletoiyahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Tobiah
  • Moreover, these nobles kept reporting to me Tobiah’s good deeds, and they relayed my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.

    Nehemiah 6:19

    • טוֹבִיָּ֖הtoiyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Tobiah
  • the descendants of Delaiah, the descendants of Tobiah, and the descendants of Nekoda, 642 in all.

    Nehemiah 7:62

    • טוֹבִיָּ֖הtoiyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Tobiah
  • Now before this, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God

    Nehemiah 13:4

    • לְטוֹבִיָּֽה׃letoiyahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Tobiah
  • to return to Jerusalem. Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done on behalf of Tobiah by providing him a room in the courts of the house of God.

    Nehemiah 13:7

    • לְט֣וֹבִיָּ֔הletoiyahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: for Tobiah
  • And I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.

    Nehemiah 13:8

    • טוֹבִיָּ֛הtoiyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Tobiah

Zechariah

two uses
  • “Take an offering from the exiles—from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, who have arrived from Babylon—and go that same day to the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah.

    Zechariah 6:10

    • טוֹבִיָּ֖הtoiyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Tobiah
  • The crown will reside in the temple of the LORD as a memorial to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and the gracious son of Zephaniah.

    Zechariah 6:14

    • וּלְטוֹבִיָּ֣הuletoiyahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to Tobiah

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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