Tobiah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Tobiah
     pleasing to Jehovah, the "servant," the "Ammonite," who joined
     with those who opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem after the
     Exile (Neh. 2:10). He was a man of great influence, which he
     exerted in opposition to the Jews, and "sent letters" to
     Nehemiah "to put him in fear" (Neh. 6:17-19). "Eliashib the


     priest" prepared for him during Nehemiah's absence "a chamber in
     the courts of the house of God," which on his return grieved
     Nehemiah sore, and therefore he "cast forth all the household
     stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber" (13:7, 8).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Tobiah, Tobijah, the Lord is good