IOBAB (Heb. ßôbâbâh). — Name of various characters in the Old Testament.
The Jews of Elephantine (Papyrus Cowley 30). The room later took its name; in the time of Ezra it was a child (A. Fernandez, A. Médebielle [see bibl.]).
13. A Jew who sent away his foreign wife (Ezra 10:20).
14. Son of Tobiah the Ammonite, opponent of Nehemiah (Neh. 6:18).
15. Head of the priestly family of Amariah during the high priesthood of Johanan, shortly after the return from exile (Neh. 12:13).
16. A priest or Levite who participated in the dedication of the walls of Jerusalem (Neh. 12:42).
Bibl.: A. Fernandez, Epoca de la actividad de Esdras, in Biblia, 2 (1921), p. 438; seq.: L. Hennequin, Éléphantine, in DB, II, cols. 1009-12; A. Condamin, Le livre de Jérémie, 3rd ed., Paris 1936, pp. 278-84; F. Zorell, Lexicon hebraicum, pp. 300, 302; seq.: A. Médebielle, Esdras-Néhémie (La Sainte Bible, ed. L. Pirot, 4), Paris 1949, pp. 268, 321; seq. 372.