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•TOBIAH pleasing to Jehovah, the “servant,” the “Ammonite,” who joined with those who opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem after the Exile (Nehemiah 2:10). He was a man of great influence, which he exerted in opposition to the Jews, and “sent letters” to Nehemiah “to put him in fear” (Nehemiah 6:17-19). “Eliashib the priest” prepared for him during Nehemiah’s absence “a chamber in the courts of the house of God,” which on his return grieved Nehemiah sore, and therefore he “cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber” (13:7, 8).‌‌‌

•TOBIJAH id., a Levite sent out through Judah by Jehoshaphat to teach the people (2 Chronicles 17:8).

•TOB , THE LAND OF a district on the east of Jodan, about 13 miles south-east of the Sea of Galilee, to which Jephthah fled from his brethren (Judges 11:3, 5). It was on the northern boundary of Perea, between Syria and the land of Ammon (2 Samuel 10:6, 8). Its modern name is Taiyibeh.

•TOCHEN measured, a town of Simeon (1 Chronicles 4:32).

•TOGARMAH (1.) A son of Gomer, and grandson of Japheth (Genesis 10:3).

(2.) A nation which traded in horses and mules at the fairs of Tyre (Ezekiel 27:14; 38:6); probably an Armenian or a Scythian race; descendants of (1).

•TOHU one of Samuel’s ancestors (1 Samuel 1:1).

•TOI a king of Hamath, who sent “Joram his son unto King David to salute him,” when he “heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer” (2 Samuel 8:9, 10). Called Tou (1 Chronicles 18:9, 10).

•TOLA a scarlet worm. (1.) Eldest son of Issachar (Genesis 46:13).

(2.) A judge of the tribe of Issachar who “judged” Israel twenty-three years (Judges 10:1, 2), when he died, and was buried in Shamir. He was succeeded by Jair.

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