Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H6678
צוֹבָא
Tsobatso-baw'
Zobah
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Tsôwbâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6678is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6678
Zoba or Zobah, a region of Syria
The King James renders it: Zoba, Zobah.
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
Tsoba is rendered "Zobah". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Six of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 14:47After Saul had assumed the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side—the Moabites, the Ammonites, the Edomites, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he routed them.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
After Saul had assumed the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side—the Moabites, the Ammonites, the Edomites, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he routed them.
1 Samuel 14:47צוֹבָה֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's twelve uses are in 2 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Zobah10
- and from Zobah1
- from Zobah1
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.
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- צוֹבָ֑ה3
- צוֹבָ֖ה2
- צוֹבָֽה׃2
- וּמִצּוֹבָ֔ה1
- מִצֹּבָ֔ה ס1
- צוֹבָ֗א1
- צוֹבָ֤א1
- צוֹבָה֙1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)10HNpl
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1HC/R/Npl
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npl
1 Samuel
one use
After Saul had assumed the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side—the Moabites, the Ammonites, the Edomites, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he routed them.
- צוֹבָה֙tzovahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zobah
2 Samuel
six uses
David also defeated Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah, who had marched out to restore his dominion along the Euphrates River.
- צוֹבָ֑הtzovahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zobah
When the Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand men.
- צוֹבָ֑הtzovahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zobah
from Edom and Moab, from the Ammonites and Philistines and Amalekites, and from the spoil of Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
- צוֹבָֽה׃tzovahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zobah
When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah and twelve thousand men from Tob.
- צוֹבָ֗אtzova'proper noun (a name)tagged: Zobah
The Ammonites marched out and arrayed themselves for battle at the entrance of the city gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.
- צוֹבָ֤אtzova'proper noun (a name)tagged: Zobah
Igal son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
- מִצֹּבָ֔ה סmitzovahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Zobah
1 Kings
one use
And God raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah,
- צוֹבָ֖הtzovahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zobah
1 Chronicles
four uses
As far as Hamath, David also defeated King Hadadezer of Zobah, who had marched out to establish his dominion along the Euphrates River.
- צוֹבָ֖הtzovahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zobah
When the Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand men.
- צוֹבָ֑הtzovahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zobah
When King Tou of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer king of Zobah,
- צוֹבָֽה׃tzovahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zobah
When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.
- וּמִצּוֹבָ֔הumitzovahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and from Zobah
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.