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Tobias

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Tobias is the transliteration of the Greek Τωβίας (Tobias) which is a translation of the Hebrew biblical name "Toviyah" (Hebrew: טוֹבִיה), meaning "God is good". It is a popular male given name for both Christians and Jews in English-speaking countries, German-speaking countries, the Low Countries, and Scandinavian countries. In English-speaking countries, it is often shortened to Toby. In German, this name appears as Tobias or Tobi; in French (where it is mostly found among Protestants) as Tobie; and in Swedish as Tobias or Tobbe. Tobias has also been a surname.

In other languages

Biblical

Several people are called Tobias or similar names in the Bible era:

  • 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 (Zechariah 6:10,14).
  • Tobiah (Ammonite) - a significant leader of the opponents of Nehemiah as recorded in that book.
  • Tobiads, a Jewish or Ammonite faction at the beginning of the Maccabean period

Fiction, movies, and television

  • Tobias Beckett, character in Solo: A Star Wars Story and mentor to Han Solo
  • Tobias Fornell, character on the CBS show, NCIS
  • Tobias Fünke, character on the Fox sitcom, Arrested Development
  • Tobias, character on the CBS daytime drama series, The Young and the Restless
  • Tobias Snape, father of Severus Snape from the Harry Potter series
  • Tobias Eaton, a protagonist in a series of novels by Veronica Roth known as the Divergent trilogy
  • Jeffery Tobias Winger, character on the sitcom Community
  • Tobias Wilson, character on The Amazing World of Gumball
  • Tobias Zachary Ziegler, character on The West Wing
  • Tobias, character on the AMC drama Fear The Walking Dead
  • Tobias, character on Pokémon
  • Tobias Tenma, protagonist of Astro Boy (Movie)
  • Tobias, character in the book series Animorphs and its TV adaptation
  • Tobias Rieper, false name used by Agent 47 on the video game Hitman

As a given name

Derivative name

See also: Toby and Tobey

As a surname

Main article: Tobias (surname)

Places

Companies

Other

  • Tobias, a genus of crab spiders

References

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