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Tobit

[toh-bit]

noun

  1. a book of the Apocrypha.

  2. a devout Jew whose story is recorded in this book.



Tobit

/ ˈtəʊbɪt /

noun

  1. a pious Jew who was released from blindness through the help of the archangel Raphael

  2. a book of the Apocrypha relating this story

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Another example appears in the book of Tobit.

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Tobit, the earliest variant which we possess,20 is distinctly Semitic in origin and colouring.

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And some really believe that he works miracles, and say it is the devil mentioned in Tobit, whom the angel Gabriel drove into the utmost parts of Egypt.”

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It is arranged thus: Type The death of Tobit.

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Tobit, tō′bit, n. an apocryphal Old Testament book, containing the story of Tobit.

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