Bible Names

Oboth: meaning of the name

Oboth means “dragons; fathers; desires.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Oboth in Hebrew and Greek

אֹבֹת H88

ʼôbôth (o-both') — Oboth, a place in the Desert

plural of H178 (אוֹב); water-skins;

Places named Oboth

Oboth in Scripture

“Oboth” appears in 4 verses of the King James Version.

  • Numbers 21:10

    And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.

  • Numbers 21:11

    And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije–abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.

  • Numbers 33:43

    And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.

  • Numbers 33:44

    And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Ije–abarim, in the border of Moab.