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Tob is a place named in Scripture. Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869) gives the name's meaning as “good; goodness”. The Scriptures below are what the Bible itself says — they are the whole of this entry, gathered from the King James text.

Judges 11:3 — Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.

Judges 11:5 — And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:

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