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Definition of Tobit
1. Noun. An Apocryphal book that was a popular novel for several centuries.
Definition of Tobit
1. n. A book of the Apocrypha.
Definition of Tobit
1. Proper noun. A book of the Old Testament Apocrypha. ¹
2. Proper noun. (biblical character otherwise rare) (Hebrew male given name). ¹
3. Noun. (statistics) a model where the dependent variable is censored. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tobit
Literary usage of Tobit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"Tobit: The name of this book and of its hero is read in the Vulgate Tobias ; but
in the Greek text Tobit (or Tobit^), in the English translation "Tobit," ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"After her marriage to Tobit, he was driven into Egypt by a charm, made by Tobias
of the heart and liver of a fish burnt on perfumed ashes, and being pursued ..."
3. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to St. Luke by Alfred Plummer (1896)
"Here only in NT, but found Tobit iii. 6 ; Ecclus. xx. 10, 14, xxix. 14, and quite
classical. In Tertullian (Adv. Marcion. iv. 35) we have an insertion from ..."
4. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1838)
"Tobit. The book of Tobit, though rejected as apocryphal by the Jews and ...
It contains an account of some remarkable events in the life of Tobit or Tobias, ..."
5. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archaeology (1896)
"Of all the Apocrypha of the Old Testament the legend of Tobit alone may be said
... Up to a very short time ago only two Hebrew texts of Tobit were known. ..."
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