tobit

  • 11Tobit — n. religious Israelite that lived in Nineveh at the end of the 8th century B.C. (Biblical), father of Tobias; book in the Roman Catholic Bible and the Protestant Apocrypha that bears Tobit s name …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 12Tobit — noun an Apocryphal book that was a popular novel for several centuries • Syn: ↑Book of Tobit • Instance Hypernyms: ↑book • Part Holonyms: ↑Apocrypha …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 13TOBIT, BOOK OF — TOBIT, BOOK OF, one of the books of the apocrypha included in the Septuagint and Vulgate in the canon. It is the story of Tobit, an honest, upright man of the tribe of Naphtali, who observed the precepts and was exiled to Assyria by Shalmaneser… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 14TOBIT (LIVRE DE) — TOBIT LIVRE DE Écrit biblique deutérocanonique, le livre de Tobit (souvent dit de Tobie) forme, avec les livres de Judith et d’Esther, un groupe dont la place est variable dans les grands manuscrits grecs de la version des Septante. Ce texte… …

    Encyclopédie Universelle

  • 15Tobit Schäfer — (* 26. Mai 1980) ist ein Schweizer Politiker (SP). Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Politisches 2 Berufliches 3 Persönliches 4 …

    Deutsch Wikipedia

  • 16Tobit-Modell — Das Tobit Modell ist ein auf James Tobin zurückgehendes ökonometrisches Modell zur Analyse beschränkt abhängiger Variablen (censored variables). Da die abhängige Variable nur auf einem bestimmten Wertebereich existiert, sind normale… …

    Deutsch Wikipedia

  • 17Tobit model — The Tobit Model is an econometric, biometric model proposed by James Tobin (1958) to describethe relationship between a non negative dependent variabley i and an independent variable (or vector) x i.The model supposes that there is a latent (i.e …

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  • 18Tobit's fish — the Book of Tobit in the Apocrypha tells of Tobit, who was blinded by sparrow dung while sleeping in a courtyard. The archangel Raphael told Tobit s son to catch a huge fish in the Tigris River and apply its gall to Tobit s eyes to cure his… …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 19Tobit, book of — A book included in the Apocrypha by Protestants and by Roman Catholics in the deuterocanonical literature of the OT. It was in the Greek LXX, although probably it was originally composed in Hebrew or Aramaic. Fragments of the book in both these… …

    Dictionary of the Bible

  • 20TOBIT, THE BOOK OF —    a book of the Apocrypha giving account of the life and vicissitudes of a pious Israelitish family in the Assyrian captivity, that consisted of Tobit, Anna his wife, and Tobias his son; all three are held up to honour for their strict… …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia