Tobias is the transliteration of the , which is a Graecisation of the

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biblical name . With the biblical

Book of Tobit The Book of Tobit (), also known as the Book of Tobias, is a deuterocanonical pre-Christian work from the 3rd or early 2nd century BC which describes how God tests the faithful, responds to prayers, and protects the pre-covenant community (i.e., ...

being present in the Deuterocanonical books and Biblical apocrypha, Tobias is a popular male

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for both Christians and Jews in

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, German-speaking countries, the Low Countries, and

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n countries. In English-speaking countries, it is often shortened to Toby and derivative names include Tobey. In German, this name appears as Tobias or Tobi; in French as Tobie; and in Swedish as Tobias or Tobbe.

In other languages

* Danish, Norwegian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese: Tobias * Amharic: ጦቢያ ''Ṭobiya'' * Burmese: တိုဘိယ (''Tobiya'') * Catalan: Tobies * Chinese (Simplified): 托拜厄斯 (Tuōbàièsī) * Chinese (Traditional):託比亞斯 (Tuōbǐyǎsī) * Croatian: Tobijaš * Czech: Tobiáš, Tobias * Finnish: Topias, Topi * French: Tobie * Greek: Τωβίας ''(Tobías)'' or '' (Tovias) '' *

: טוֹבִיה ''(Tovyah)'', Tovia, Tuvya * Hungarian: Tóbiás * Irish: Tóibias * Italian: Tobia * Kazakh: Тобиас (Tobïas) * Kurdish: Tobîas * Latgalian: Tobijas * Lithuanian: Tobijas * Occitan: Tòbiàs * Polish: Tobiasz * Romanian: ''Tobie'' or ''Tobit'' * Russian: Товий ''(Toviy)'' * Slovak: Tobiáš * Spanish: Tobías * Ukrainian: Товія ''(Toviya)'' *

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: טבֿיה (''Tevye'')

People known by the mononym

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

*Tobias the elder; the name used for Tobit in the

Vulgate The Vulgate () is a late-4th-century Bible translations into Latin, Latin translation of the Bible. It is largely the work of Saint Jerome who, in 382, had been commissioned by Pope Damasus I to revise the Gospels used by the Diocese of ...

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

Other

*Tobias, Christian martyr, see Agapius, Atticus, Carterius, Styriacus, Tobias, Eudoxius, Nictopolion, and Companions * Tobias of Jerusalem, 2nd-century bishop * Tobias (bishop of Rochester), died 726

People with given name

* Tobias (footballer, born 1949) (Brazilian footballer) * Tobias Abse (professor) * Tobias Abstreiter (hockey center) * Tobias Angerer (cross country skier) * Tobias Arlt (luger) * Tobias Bamberg (magician) * Tobias Barreto (critic/poet) * Tobias Beecher (from the TV series Oz) * Tobias Beer (actor) * Tobias Bernstrup (contemporary artist) * Tobias Billström (politician) * Tobias Bjarneby (video game journalist) * Tobias de Boer (scientist) * Tobias Bogner (ski jumper) * Tobias Bonhoeffer (neurobiologist) * Tobias Bridge (Major-General in the First English Civil War) * Tobias S. Buckell (science fiction author) * Tobias Capwell (born ), American curator, military historian and jouster * Tobias Carlsson (footballer, born 1975) (Kalmar FF footballer) * Tobias Carlsson (footballer, born 1995) (BK Häcken footballer) * Tobías Zúñiga Castro (politician) * Tobias Cohn (17/18th century physician) * Tobias Cole (countertenor) * Tobias Cremer (politician) * Tobias Joaquim Dai (politician) * Tobias Dantzig (mathematician) * Tobias Delius (musician) * Tobias Dier (golfer) * Tobias Dorzon (chef) * Tobias Druitt (author, pseudonym) * Tobiah ben Eliezer * Tobias Ebenberger (politician) * Tobias Ellwood (politician) * Tobias Enhus (composer) * Tobias Enström (hockey defenceman) * Tobias Exxel (bass player from Edguy) * Tobias Forge (musician - Repugnant, Subvision, Ghost) * Tobias Fornell (character on the TV series "NCIS") * Tobias Forsberg (hockey winger) * Tobias Frere-Jones (type designer) *

Tobias Furneaux Captain Tobias Furneaux (21 August 173518 September 1781) was a British navigator and Royal Navy officer, who accompanied James Cook on his second voyage of exploration. He was one of the first men to circumnavigate the world in both direction ...

(Royal Navy officer) * Tobias Geffen (rabbi) * Tobias Gentleman (fl. 1614, English mariner and writer) * Tobias Grahn (Gimnàstic de Tarragona midfielder) * Tobias Gregson (fictional character in a number of the "Sherlock Holmes" novels) * Tobias Grünenfelder (Swiss alpine skier) * Tobias Harris (National Basketball Association player) * Tobias Hecht (American anthropologist, ethnographer, and translator) * Tobías Hernández (Major League Baseball player) * Tobias Hill (poet/novelist) * Tobias Hoesl (German television actor) * Tobias Hogan (1823–1904, politician from Monticello, Minnesota) * Tobias Holmberg (Swedish Bandy player) * Tobias Holmqvist (Swedish footballer) * Tobias Hume (composer & soldier) * Tobias Hysén (IFK Göteborg footballer) * Detective Tobias Jones (fictional character) * Tobias Jones (writer) (author & journalist) * Tobias Jonsson (born 1996), Swedish Paralympic athlete * Tobias Jørgensen (born 2000), Danish Paralympic equestrian * Tobias Kamke (German tennis player) * Tobias Karkulowski (Finnish footballer) * Tobias Karlsson (songwriter) (Swedish record producer) * Tobias Kassung (German classical guitarist and composer) * Tobias Krantz (Swedish politician) * Tobías Lasser (Venezuelan botanist) * Tobias Lear V (personal secretary) * Tobias Levels (German-Dutch footballer) * Tobias Lindemann (German architect, designer and media entrepreneur) * Tobias Linderoth (Galatasaray midfielder) * Tobias Lohner (1619 - 1697, Austrian Jesuit theologian) * Tobias Mabuta Munihango (Namibian amateur boxer) * Tobias Maguire (actor and film producer) * Tobias Matthay (teacher & composer) * Tobias Matthew (archbishop of York) * Tobias Mayer (astronomer) * Tobias Mehler (Canadian actor) * Tobias Menzies (actor) * Tobias Michael Carel Asser (jurist) * Tobias Mikaelsson (Swedish football player) * Tobias Mikkelsen (Danish football player) * Tobias Moretti (actor) * Tobias Mullen (1818-1900, Irish-born clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop of Erie) * Tobias Müller (disambiguation) * Tobias Nath (German television actor) * Tobias Nickenig (German footballer) * Tobias Norris (politician) * Tobias Palmer (American football player) * Tobias Picker (composer) * Tobias Pflüger (politician) * Tobias A. Plants (1811 – 1887, U.S. Representative from Ohio) * Tobias Pock (Austrian Baroque painter) * Tobias Pullen (Irish bishop) * Tobias Ragg (from musical ''Sweeney Todd'') * Tobias Rathgeb (German football midfielder) * Tobias Rau (retired German footballer) * Tobias Read (member of the Oregon House of Representatives) * Tobias Regner (musician) * Tobias Reinhardt (classical scholar) * Tobias Rustat (1606?-1694, benefactor of the University of Cambridge) * Tobias Sammet (vocalist from Edguy) * Tobias Schellenberg (competitive diver) * Tobias Schenke (German actor) * Tobias Schiegl (Austrian luger) * Tobias Schneebaum (artist & activist) * Tobias Schneider (German speedskater) * Tobias Schönenberg (actor & photomodel) * Tobias Schweinsteiger (German footballer) * Tobias Simon (Miami civil rights lawyer) * Tobias Sippel (German football goalkeeper) * Tobias Sjokvist (born 1995), Swedish ice hockey player * Tobias Smith (English Twitch Streamer) * Tobias Smollett (Scottish author) * Tobias Steinhauser (former German cyclist) * Tobias Stephan (hockey goaltender) * Tobias Stimmer (painter & illustrator) * Tobias Summerer (German tennis player) * Tobias Tal (Dutch rabbi) * Tobias Tornkvist (born 1994), Swedish ice hockey player * Tobias Truvillion (African-American actor) * Tobias Unger (athlete) * Tobias Verhaecht (draughtsman) * Tobias Verwey (Namibian cricketer) * Tobias Viklund (Swedish ice hockey defenceman) * Tobias Weis (German footballer) * Tobias Wendl (German luger) * Tobias Whale (fictional character in DC comics) * Tobias Whitaker, English physician * Tobias Willi (former German football player) * Tobias Wilner (Danish musician and film director) * Tobias Wolff (writer) * Tobias Zachary Ziegler (fictional character in the TV drama ''The West Wing'')

Fictional characters with the given name

* 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 ''

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'' * 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, see List of ''Pokémon'' anime characters *Tobias Tenma, protagonist of the movie ''

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'' *Tobias, character in the book series '' Animorphs'' and its '' TV adaptation'' *Tobias Rieper, false name used by Agent 47 on the video game ''Hitman'' *Tobias, character in the video game '' The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard'' *Tobias Vaughn, an antagonist in the ''

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