Tobiah: meaning of the name

Tobiah in Hebrew and Greek

People named Tobiah in the Bible

• Tobiah

  12 verses · first mentioned in Nehemiah 2:10

• Tobiah

  2 verses · first mentioned in Ezra 2:60

Tobiah in Scripture

“Tobiah” appears in 14 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Ezra 2:60

  The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.

• Nehemiah 2:10

  When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

• Nehemiah 2:19

  But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?

• Nehemiah 4:3

  Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

• Nehemiah 4:7

  But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,

• Nehemiah 6:1

  Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)

• Nehemiah 6:12

  And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

• Nehemiah 6:14

  My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.