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Leaf from a vellum manuscript of Tobit, c. 1240 Rembrandt: Tobit Accusing Anna of Stealing the Kid (1626). The Book of Tobit (/ ˈ t oʊ b ɪ t /) [a] [b] is an apocryphal Jewish work from the 3rd or early 2nd century BCE which describes how God tests the faithful, responds to prayers, and protects the covenant community (i.e., the Israelites). [1]
Tobias, son of Tobit; "Book of Tobias" is an older name for the Book of Tobit; Tobias the elder; the name used for Tobit in the Vulgate and Douay–Rheims Bible. Tobijah, two persons mentioned in the Bible: a Levite in the reign of Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 17:8) and a Jew travelling from Babylon to Jerusalem with precious metal for Zerubbabel ...
Titian, The Archangel Raphael and Tobias (c. 1512−1514). Tobias and the Angel is the traditional title of depictions in art of a passage from the Book of Tobit in which Tobias, son of Tobit, travels with the Archangel Raphael without realising he is an angel (5.5–6) and is then instructed by Raphael what to do with a giant fish he catches (6.2–9).
Names play a variety of roles in the Bible. They sometimes relate to the nominee's role in a biblical narrative , as in the case of Nabal , a foolish man whose name means "fool". [ 1 ] Names in the Bible can represent human hopes, divine revelations , or are used to illustrate prophecies .
In the Catholic Church, three archangels are mentioned by name in its Biblical canon: Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. Raphael appears in the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit, where he is described as "one of the seven angels who stand ready and enter before the glory of the lord of spirits", [17] a phrase recalled in Revelation 8:2–6.
These are the books of the King James Version of the Bible along with the names and numbers given them in the Douay Rheims Bible and Latin Vulgate. This list is a complement to the list in Books of the Latin Vulgate. It is an aid to finding cross references between two longstanding standards of biblical literature.
Edna (Hebrew: עֶדְנָה) is a feminine given name originating from several languages. In Hebrew, it means "pleasure, delight". The name appears in the Biblical apocryphal Book of Tobit as the mother of Sarah and stepmother of Tobias. In Ireland, the name has been used as an Anglicized form of the Irish name Eithne.
This page includes a list of biblical proper names that start with T in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External Links.