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Tobit

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To·bit 1  (tbt)
In the Bible, a Hebrew captive in Nineveh.
[Greek Tbit, from Hebrew ôbyh, Yahweh (is) my good : ôb, good; see yb in Semitic roots + -î, my + yh, Yahweh; see hwy in Semitic roots.]
To·bit 2  (tbt)
n. Abbr. Tob. or Tb
See Table at Bible.
[After Tobit.]
Tobit [ˈtəʊbɪt]
n Old Testament
1. (Christian Religious Writings / Bible) a pious Jew who was released from blindness through the help of the archangel Raphael
2. (Christian Religious Writings / Bible) a book of the Apocrypha relating this story
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Noun1.TobitTobit - an Apocryphal book that was a popular novel for several centuries
Book of Tobit
Apocrypha - 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status


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Then, raising him up as Tobit raised the fish by the gills, you must pull him into the room, taking care to squeeze him so tight that he can't cry out.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
So entertaind those odorous sweets the Fiend Who came thir bane, though with them better pleas'd Then ASMODEUS with the fishie fume, That drove him, though enamourd, from the Spouse Of TOBITS Son, and with a vengeance sent From MEDIA post to AEGYPT, there fast bound.
Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context
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