Tobit
Tobit
(Sept. , , ; Vulg. Tobias; et. Lat. Tobi, Thobi, Tobis), the son of Tobiel and father of Tobias (Tobit 1, 1, etc.). The name appears to answer to , Tob, which occurs frequently in later times (Fritzsche, Ad Tobit 1, 1), and not (as Welte, Einleitung, p. 65) to , Tobiah; yet in that case , according to the analogy of v (), would have been the more -natural form. The etymology of the word is obscure. Ilgen translates it simply my goodness; Fritzsche regards it as an abbreviation of , comparing (Luk 3:24; Luk 3:28), , etc. (Ad Tob. loc. cit.). The form in the Vulg. is of no weight against the old Latin, except so far as it shows the reading of the Chaldaic text which Jerome used, ia which the identity of the names of the father and son is directly affirmed (1, 9, Vulg.). SEE TOBIT, BOOK OF.