Bible Names

Argob: meaning of the name

Argob means “a turf, or fat land.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Argob in Hebrew and Greek

אַרְגֹּב H709

ʼArgôb (ar-gobe') — Argob, a district of Palestine

from the same as H7263 (רֶגֶב); stony;

Who named Argob in the Bible

Places named Argob

Argob in Scripture

“Argob” appears in 5 verses of the King James Version.

  • Deuteronomy 3:4

    And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

  • Deuteronomy 3:13

    And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.

  • Deuteronomy 3:14

    Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashan–havoth–jair, unto this day.

  • 1 Kings 4:13

    The son of Geber, in Ramoth–gilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:

  • 2 Kings 15:25

    But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.