Book of Tobit
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Book of Tobit — The Book of Tobit (or Book of Tobias in older Catholic Bibles) is a book of scripture that is part of the Catholic and Orthodox biblical canon, pronounced canonical by the Council of Carthage of 397 and confirmed for Roman Catholics by the… … Wikipedia
Book of Tobias — Tobias † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Tobias We shall first enumerate the various Biblical persons and then treat the book of this name. I. PERSONS A. Tobias (II Par., xvii, 8). Heb. tobyyahu Yahweh is good ; Sept. Tobias, one … Catholic encyclopedia
Tobit — may refer to * Book of Tobit, a book of scripture that is part of the Catholic and Orthodox biblical canon * Tobit model, an econometric model for censored endogenous variables proposed by James Tobin … Wikipedia
Tobit — /toh bit/, n. 1. a book of the Apocrypha. 2. a devout Jew whose story is recorded in this book. * * * Main character in the Bible s apocryphal book of Tobit. Tobit, a pious Jew living in exile in Nineveh, gives alms and buries the dead in… … Universalium
Book of Esther — Hebrew Bible Tanakh … Wikipedia
Tobit's fish — the Book of Tobit in the Apocrypha tells of Tobit, who was blinded by sparrow dung while sleeping in a courtyard. The archangel Raphael told Tobit s son to catch a huge fish in the Tigris River and apply its gall to Tobit s eyes to cure his… … Dictionary of ichthyology
Tobit — noun an Apocryphal book that was a popular novel for several centuries • Syn: ↑Book of Tobit • Instance Hypernyms: ↑book • Part Holonyms: ↑Apocrypha … Useful english dictionary
Book of Judith — The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Septuagint and in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible, but excluded by Jews and Protestants. It has been said that the book contains numerous… … Wikipedia
TOBIT, BOOK OF — TOBIT, BOOK OF, one of the books of the apocrypha included in the Septuagint and Vulgate in the canon. It is the story of Tobit, an honest, upright man of the tribe of Naphtali, who observed the precepts and was exiled to Assyria by Shalmaneser… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Tobit — To bit, n. A book of the Apocrypha. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
