Tobit
Americannoun
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a book of the Apocrypha.
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a devout Jew whose story is recorded in this book.
noun
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a pious Jew who was released from blindness through the help of the archangel Raphael
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a book of the Apocrypha relating this story
Example Sentences
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Another example appears in the book of Tobit.
From Salon • Aug. 1, 2020
Tobit includes a narrative about a young woman named Sarah.
From Salon • Aug. 1, 2020
Miss Endor, Homer, Ulysses, Mambres, Tobit, Plutarch, the polite Athenians, Charles I., and Alexander Pope are certainly as respectable a list of references as the most aristocratic greyhound could desire.—E.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
Thou hast well spoken, for thou art the companion of the citizens of Heaven, and like Job and Tobit hast suffered all things meekly and with patience.
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene
Tobit, the earliest variant which we possess,20 is distinctly Semitic in origin and colouring.
From The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story by Gerould, Gordon Hall
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