Strong's Hebrew · H2897

טוֹב

Ṭôwb · tobe

Tob.

Definition

Tob, a region apparently East of the Jordan

Derivation

the same as H2896 (טוֹב); good;

Appears 4 times in Scripture

Judges 11:5

and made war with them, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob.

2 Samuel 10:8

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.

2 Samuel 10:6

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.

Judges 11:3

So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where worthless men gathered around him and traveled with him.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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