Bible Names

Shobach: meaning of the name

Shobach means “your bonds; your chains.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Shobach in Hebrew and Greek

שׁוֹבָךְ H7731

Shôwbâk (sho-bawk') — Shobak, a Syrian

perhaps for H7730 (שׂוֹבֶךְ);

Who named Shobach in the Bible

Shobach in Scripture

“Shobach” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • 2 Samuel 10:16

    And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that were beyond the river: and they came to Helam; and Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them.

  • 2 Samuel 10:18

    And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.