Strong's #6678: Tsowba' (pronounced tso-baw')

or Tsowbah {tso-baw'}; or Tsobah {tso-baw'}; from an unused root meaning to station; a station; Zoba or Zobah, a region of Syria:--Zoba, Zobah.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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tsôbâ' / tsôbâh

Zoba or Zobah = "station"

1) the name of a portion of Syria which formed a separate kingdom in the times of Saul, David, and Solomon; located northeast of Damascus

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: from an unused root meaning to station

Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

 

1 Samuel 14:47: "of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned"
2 Samuel 8:3: "the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river"
2 Samuel 8:5: "to succor Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two"
2 Samuel 8:12: "and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob,"
2 Samuel 10:6: "the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king"
2 Samuel 10:8: "at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselves"
2 Samuel 23:36: "Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,"
1 Kings 11:23: "from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:"
1 Chronicles 18:3: "Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion"
1 Chronicles 18:5: "to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two"
1 Chronicles 18:9: "the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah;"
1 Chronicles 19:6: "Mesopotamia, and out of Syria-maachah, and out of Zobah."