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TOB.—One of the small Aramæan principalities founded to the south of Mt. Hermon and Damascus in the 12th cent. b.c., the others being Hamath (the less), Zobah, Beth-rehob, Maacah or Geshur. It was in Tob that Jephthah lived as an outlaw (Jdg_11:3; Jdg_11:5). Tob joined the rest of the Aramæans, except those of Hamath (2Sa_8:9 f.), in helping the Ammonites in their war against king David (2Sa_10:6 ff.). The exact position of these little States is uncertain. Tob was perhaps the most easterly of them. Possibly Tob is meant in the region alluded to in 1Ma_5:13 [Tubias], 2Ma_12:17 [Tubieni].
J. F. McCurdy.