Tob

[Smith] (good), The land of, a place in which Jephthah took refuge when expelled from home by his half-brother, (Judges 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 (2 Samuel 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. [Hitchcock] good; goodness [Nave] –A district in Syria Jud 11:3 , 5 –Called ISH-TOB 2Sa 16:6 , 8 [OpenBible.info] from harper; now et-Taiyibeh [STEPBible TIPNR] A location first mentioned at Jdg.11.3) referred to as Tob (טוֹב), or "men of Tob" (אִישׁ־טוֹב), or men of Tob (אִישׁ טוֹב). [Theographic] A district on the east of Jodan, about 13 miles south-east of the Sea of Galilee, to which Jephthah fled from his brethren (Judg. 11:3, 5). It was on the northern boundary of Perea, between Syria and the land of Ammon (2 Sam. 10:6, 8). Its modern name is Taiyibeh.