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Tobit¹

Where it comes from

From the Ancient Greek Τωβίτ (Tōbít), from Hebrew טוֹבִי (tovi, literally “my good”).

proper noun

  1. A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
  2. rare A male given name from Hebrew. I Tobit have walked all the days of my life in the ways of truth and justice, and I did many almsdeeds to my brethren, and my nation, who came with me to Nineve, into the land of the Assyrians.

Tobit²

Where it comes from

Coined by A. S. Goldberg in 1964 as these type of models were first proposed by James Tobin and are similar to probit models.

noun

  1. uncountable a model where the dependent variable is censored.

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name the book of the Bible

EspañolTobías
DeutschTobit, Tobias
ΕλληνικάΤωβίτ Tovít
RomânăTobit
РусскийКнига Товита Kniga Tovita
العربيةسِفْر طُوبِيَا sifr ṭūbiyā
עבריתטוֹבִי tovi

name male given name

EspañolTobías
DeutschTobias
ΕλληνικάΤωβίτ Tovít

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@misc{tobit_2026,
  title = {Tobit},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tobit},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}