STRONGS NUMBER H2900


Word Summary
Tobiyyahu or Tobiyyah: "Yah is my good", three Israelites, also an Ammonite
Original Word: טוֹבִיָּה
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
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 טוֺבִיָּהΤωβια(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, ᵐ5χρησίμων(+?)αὐτῆς, i.e. טוֺבֶיהָ‎.