Zobah: meaning of the name

Zobah in Hebrew and Greek

Places named Zobah

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Zobah in Scripture

“Zobah” appears in 11 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• 1 Samuel 14:47

  So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them.

• 2 Samuel 8:3

  David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates.

• 2 Samuel 8:5

  And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

• 2 Samuel 8:12

  Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

• 2 Samuel 23:36

  Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,

• 1 Kings 11:23

  And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:

• 1 Kings 11:24

  And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.

• 1 Chronicles 18:3

  And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Hamath, as he went to stablish his dominion by the river Euphrates.