Every Name in Tanakh

שֹׁבִי Shobi

Every verse in which this name stands — 1 place, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the occurrences our own corpus tags as this name, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.

PersonGematria 312×1 named in TanakhFirst appearance:

An Ammonite. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at 2 Samuel 17:27.

2 Samuel 17:27שמואל ב יז:כז

וַיְהִי כְּבוֹא דָוִד מַחֲנָיְמָה וְשֹׁבִי בֶן־נָחָשׁ מֵרַבַּת בְּנֵֽי־עַמּוֹן וּמָכִיר בֶּן־עַמִּיאֵל מִלֹּא דְבָר וּבַרְזִלַּי הַגִּלְעָדִי מֵרֹגְלִֽים

And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

Quick answers

What is the gematria of Shobi?

Shobi — שבי in Hebrew — has a gematria of 312 in the standard method.

How many times is Shobi named in the Tanakh?

1 time, first at 2 Samuel 17:27.

A spelling is not a name. The written word ושבי stands 4 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell another name or an ordinary word, and a name written with a particle attached is a word that search never returns. It is here, as itself.

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