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Tobias

Tobias, 'Yah is good', is the Greek form of Hebrew Ṭôbiyyāh, made famous by the Book of Tobit. It is still Tobias in Germany and Scandinavia, Topias in Finland and Toby in England; in Yiddish it became Tevye, the milkman of 'Fiddler on the Roof'.

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520 BCEBiblical Hebrew

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