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
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From Salon
In the following versions the hero is saved on the wedding night, or the bride is purified by some means: Tobit, Armenian, Gypsy, Siberian, Russian I., Russian II.,
From Project Gutenberg
It is arranged thus: Type The death of Tobit.
From Project Gutenberg
Tobit, tō′bit, n. an apocryphal Old Testament book, containing the story of Tobit.
From Project Gutenberg
The pious duty of sweeping up all that was mortal of these unfortunates sometimes becomes really distressing, and one feels like a modern Tobit, keeping watch o'er man's mortality.
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