צוֹבָא
Zoba
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Zoba’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H6678 appears in the Book of 1 Chronicles — 4 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles
- 1 Chronicles 18:3 צוֹבָ֖ה n Proper David struck Hadarezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
- 1 Chronicles 18:5 צוֹבָ֑ה n Proper When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David struck of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men.
- 1 Chronicles 18:9 צוֹבָֽה n Proper When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah,
- 1 Chronicles 19:6 וּ/מִ/צּוֹבָ֔ה conj + prep + n Proper When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Zobah.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, צובא (Tsôwbâʼ) means “Zoba.” The word gravitates to 2 Samuel (50%), then 1 Chronicles and 1 Samuel. It appears 12 verses across 4 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. Scripture first uses it in 1 Samuel 14:47. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6678 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,101
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Samuel 6 verses 50%
- 1 Chronicles 4 verses 33%
- 1 Samuel 1 verse 8%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 12 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 8 verses · 67%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Zobah 10×, Zoba 2×
- American Standard Version: Zobah 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Zobah 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Zobah 11×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6678 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6678 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6678 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6678 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Zoba or Zobah = "station"
- the name of a portion of Syria which formed a separate kingdom in the times of Saul…
Word origin
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.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to station
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
צוֹבָא
- , v. צוֹבָה
צוֹבָה
- (b. h.) pr. n. Zobah, Zoba, a portion of Aram. Targ. II Sam. VIII, 3. Ib. X, 6; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H6678 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| צוֹבָ֑ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 18:5 | 3 |
| צוֹבָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 18:3 | 2 |
| צוֹבָֽה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 18:9 | 2 |
| וּ/מִ/צּוֹבָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 19:6 | 1 |
| מִ/צֹּבָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 23:36 | 1 |
| צוֹבָ֗א | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 10:6 | 1 |
| צוֹבָ֤א | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 10:8 | 1 |
| צוֹבָה֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 14:47 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6678, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 11 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 12 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
