Lexical Summary Tobiyyahu or Tobiyyah: "Yah is my good", three Israelites, also an Ammonite Original Word: טוֹבִיָּהTransliteration: 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 טוֺבִיָּה Τωβια(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, ᵐ5 χρησίμων(+?)αὐτῆς, i.e. טוֺבֶיהָ. |