Tobijah
to.viy.yah is a personal name used for figures in priestly, genealogical, narrative, and exilic settings.
The term functions as a proper personal name: it identifies a Levite in 2 Chronicles 17:8, a family line in Ezra 2:60 and Nehemiah 7:62, a figure involved in the Nehemiah narrative, and a person named among exiles in Zechariah 6:10.
Senses in use
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Personal name in lists and narrative · dominant
Every supplied token is tagged Noun · Proper. In Nehemiah 6:17 the name occurs twice in the exchange of letters with Judah's nobles; in Ezra 2:60 it marks the family called "the sons of Tobijah," while Zechariah 6:10 names a person among those who came from Babylon.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the proper name as both "Tobiah" and "Tobijah" across the supplied verses. These English spellings show its presentation of the named figure or figures rather than a separate lexical sense.