Bible Names

Tubal: meaning of the name

Tubal means “the earth; the world; confusion.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Tubal in Hebrew and Greek

תּוּבַל H8422

Tûwbal (too-bal') — Tubal, a postdiluvian patriarch and his posterity

or תֻּבַל; probably of foreign derivation;

Who named Tubal in the Bible

Places named Tubal

Tubal in Scripture

“Tubal” appears in 9 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 4:22

    And Zillah, she also bare Tubal–cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal–cain was Naamah.

  • Genesis 10:2

    The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:5

    The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

  • Isaiah 66:19

    And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.

  • Ezekiel 27:13

    Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

  • Ezekiel 32:26

    There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.

  • Ezekiel 38:2

    Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

  • Ezekiel 38:3

    And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: