HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H382
אִישׁ־טוֹב
ish-tov — Ish-tob
Ishtob = "man of Tob" a region beyond Jordan, north or northeast of Gilead
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Ishtob
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Man of Tob, one of the small Syrian kingdoms which together constituted Aram (2 Sam. 10:6, 8).
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.