Toviyyah טוֹבִיָּ֫הוּ

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Toviyyah
טוֹבִיָּ֫הוּ
Transliterationtoviyyah
Strong's numberH2900 (H2900I, H2900H, H2900J, H2900G)
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechname of a man
GlossTobiah
Occurrences18 in 17 verses
Most frequent inNehemiah (13)

Toviyyah (Hebrew טוֹבִיָּ֫הוּ, Strong's H2900) is a name of a man in the Old Testament, glossed “Tobiah”. It occurs 18 times.

Definition

H2900I: Tobiah

A man of the Ammonites living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Neh.2.10; married to daughter_of_Shecaniah (H7935N);
father of: Jehohanan (H3076O)
§ Tobiah = "Jehovah is good"
1) head of a family who returned from exile with Zerubbabel but who were unable to prove their connection with Israel
2) the Ammonite who with Sanballat opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem
3) a Levite in the reign of Jehoshaphat
4) a chief of the returning exiles

H2900H: Tobiah

A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.2.60
§ Tobiah = "Jehovah is good"
1) head of a family who returned from exile with Zerubbabel but who were unable to prove their connection with Israel
2) the Ammonite who with Sanballat opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem
3) a Levite in the reign of Jehoshaphat
4) a chief of the returning exiles

H2900J: Tobijah

A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Zec.6.10
§ Tobiah = "Jehovah is good"
1) head of a family who returned from exile with Zerubbabel but who were unable to prove their connection with Israel
2) the Ammonite who with Sanballat opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem
3) a Levite in the reign of Jehoshaphat
4) a chief of the returning exiles

H2900G: Tobijah

A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 2Ch.17.8
§ Tobiah = "Jehovah is good"
1) head of a family who returned from exile with Zerubbabel but who were unable to prove their connection with Israel
2) the Ammonite who with Sanballat opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem
3) a Levite in the reign of Jehoshaphat
4) a chief of the returning exiles

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVtobiah (15), tobijah (3)
BSBtobiah (12), tobijah (3), tobiah's (2), behalf of tobiah (1)

Verses

Every verse with Toviyyah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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