Lexicon
טוֹב
tov
H2897
N:N--L Hebrew

Tob

4
Occurrences
2
Books
Hebrew
Language

tov is used as a proper name for a land and for its people in the supplied biblical verses.

The attested verses use tov as a proper name: a land where Jephthah lived and from which he was brought, and a designation for men counted among military forces.

Senses in use

  1. Proper name for a land and its people · dominant

    All four occurrences are tagged Noun · Proper. In Judges 11:3 the APB renders Jephthah as living in "the land of Tob," and in Judges 11:5 the elders go to bring him from that land; in 2 Samuel 10:6 and 2 Samuel 10:8 it renders "the men of Tob" among forces associated with Ammon's conflict.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the proper name as "Tob" in both "the land of Tob" and "the men of Tob." These phrases show the verse-level presentation rather than a separate English definition.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture