toviya · Tobijah

What it means

toviya (טוֹבִיָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Tobijah”.

Name of several people. It means "good is Yah."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Tobiah ×17
• Tobijah ×1

Where it appears

• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×14
• Zechariah×2

• 2 Chronicles 17:8

  and with them the Levites Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Joram, the priests.

• Ezra 2:60

  the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, six hundred fifty-two.

• Nehemiah 2:10

  And Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard, and it seemed to them a great evil that a man had come to seek the good of the sons of Israel.

• Nehemiah 2:19

  But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, and they mocked us and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

• Nehemiah 4:3

  And Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Even what they are building— if a fox goes up, it will make a breach in the wall of their stones.”

• Nehemiah 4:7

  It happened that when Sanballat and Tobiah, and the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward, that the breaches had begun to be closed, they burned with anger greatly;

• Nehemiah 6:1

  It happened that when it was heard by Sanballat and Tobiah, and by Geshem the Arab and by the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall and no breach was left in it —though up to that time I had not set up doors in the gates—

• Nehemiah 6:12

  And I recognized, and in fact, that it was not Elohim who had sent him, but he had spoken the prophecy against me, and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

• Nehemiah 6:14

  Remember, my Elohim, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these works of his, and also Noadiah the prophetess and the rest of the prophets who were frightening me.

• Nehemiah 6:17

  Also in those days the nobles of Judah were multiplying their letters going to Tobiah, and those of Tobiah were coming to them.

• Nehemiah 6:19

  Also they kept speaking of his good deeds before me, and my words they kept carrying out to him. Letters Tobiah sent to frighten me.

• Nehemiah 7:62

  the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, and the sons of Nekoda, six hundred forty-two.

• Nehemiah 13:4

  Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was placed in the chamber of the house of our Elohim, and was related to Tobiah,

• Nehemiah 13:7

  and I came to Jerusalem, and I understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in making him a chamber in the courts of the house of Elohim.

• Nehemiah 13:8

  And it seemed wrong to me greatly, and I threw all the utensils of the house of Tobiah outside of the chamber.

• Zechariah 6:10

  “Take from the exiles, from Heldai, and from Tobiah, and from Jedaiah; and go, you yourself, on that same day, and enter the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah, where they have come from Babylon.

• Zechariah 6:14

  And the crowns will be for Helem and for Tobiah and for Jedaiah and for Hen son of Zephaniah, as a memorial in the temple of YHWH.

And 1 more times.