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title: צוֹבָא — Zoba · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צוֹבָא (6678), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 10 times: Zoba. BDB 1906: n.pr.terr. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צוֹבָא

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«צוֹבָא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Zoba** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 10 times · **Key:** 6678 · **BDB:** צוֹבָא

### Glosses

of.Zobah (8); Zobah (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Zoba [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6678/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.terr. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6678/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.terr. Σουβα, rarely Σωβα(λ): an Aramaean kingdom, time of (Saul and) David אֲרַם צוֹבָא 2 S 10:6, 8 (elsewhere צוֹבָה), אֲרַם צוֹבָה ψ 60:2 (title); הֲדַדְעֶזֶר מֶלֶךְ צ׳ 2 S 8:3, 5, 12 = 1 Ch 18:3, 5; 1 K 11:23; 1 Ch 18:9; צ׳ also 19:6; חֲמַת צ׳ 2 Ch 8:3; orig. home of one of David’s heroes 2 S 23:36 (perhaps read also for n.pr.m. מִבְחָר ‖ 1 Ch 11:38, cf. Dr); מַלְכֵי צ׳ 1 S 14:47 (only here in Saul’s time); NöAram., in Ency. Bib., cf. ZMG xxv (1871), 113 ff. places between Hamath and Damascus (about Ḥums, Emesa), and so DlPa 279 f., who cp. Assyrian city Ṣubitu, cf. SchrCOT. 2 S 8:3.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צוֹבָא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6678/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Samuel 23:36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.36/)

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יִגְאָ֤ל בֶּן־נָתָן֙ מִצֹּבָ֔הס בָּנִ֖י הַגָּדִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Igal the.son of.Nathan from Zobah Bani the Gadite

*JPS 1917:* Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite;

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[1 Chronicles 18:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.18.9/)

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וַיִּשְׁמַ֕ע תֹּ֖עוּ מֶ֣לֶךְ חֲמָ֑ת כִּ֚י הִכָּ֣ה דָוִ֔יד אֶת־כָּל־חֵ֖יל הֲדַדְעֶ֥זֶר מֶֽלֶךְ־צוֹבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.heard Tou the.king of.Hamath (dm).that he.had.defeated David (et) all the.army of.Hadadezer the.king of.Zobah

*JPS 1917:* And when Tou king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah,

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