Bible Names

Tob: meaning of the name

Tob means “good; goodness.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Tob in Hebrew and Greek

טוֹב H2897

Ṭôwb (tobe) — Tob, a region apparently East of the Jordan

the same as H2896 (טוֹב); good;

Places named Tob

Tob in Scripture

“Tob” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Judges 11:3

    Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.

  • Judges 11:5

    And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:

  • 2 Chronicles 17:8

    And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob–adonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.