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Tob
        (good), The land of, a place in which Jephthah took refuge when expelled from home by his half-brother, Jud 11:3 and where he remained, at the head of a band of freebooters, till he was brought back by the sheikhs of Gilead. ver. 5. The narrative implies that the land of Tob was not far distant from Gilead; at the same time, from the nature of the case it must have lain out toward the eastern deserts. It is undoubtedly mentioned again in 2Sa 10:6,8 as Ishtob, i.e. man of Tob, meaning, according to a common Hebrew idiom, the men of Tob. After a long interval it appears again, in the Maccabaean history, 1 Macc. 5:13, in the names Tobie and Tubieni. 2 Macc. 12:17. No identification of the ancient, district with any modern one has yet been attempted.


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Smith, William, Dr "Meaning and Definition for 'tob' in Smiths Bible Dictionary".
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