Tobias is the

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of the

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which is a translation of the

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biblical name he, טוֹבִיה, Toviyah, JahGod is good, label=none. With the biblical Book of Tobias being present in the Deuterocanon/

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of the

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, Tobias is a popular male given name for both Christians and Jews in

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, and

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n countries. In English-speaking countries, it is often shortened to Toby. In German, this name appears as Tobias or Tobi; in French as Tobie; and in Swedish as Tobias or Tobbe. Tobias has also been a surname.

In other languages

* Danish, Norwegian, German, Dutch,

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

, Portuguese: Tobias * Amharic: ጦቢያ (T’obīya) *

Catalan Catalan may refer to: Catalonia From, or related to Catalonia: * Catalan language, a Romance language * Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia Places * 13178 Catalan, asteroid ...

: Tobies * Czech: Tobiáš, Tobias *

Croatian Croatian may refer to: * Croatia *Croatian language *Croatian people *Croatians (demonym) See also * * * Croatan (disambiguation) * Croatia (disambiguation) * Croatoan (disambiguation) * Hrvatski (disambiguation) * Hrvatsko (disambiguation) * S ...

: Tobijaš * Finnish: Topias, Topi *

French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

: Tobie *

: Τωβίας ''(Tobías)'' *

: Tovia, Tuvya * Hungarian: Tóbiás * Italian: Tobia (name) *

Lithuanian Lithuanian may refer to: * Lithuanians * Lithuanian language * The country of Lithuania * Grand Duchy of Lithuania * Culture of Lithuania * Lithuanian cuisine * Lithuanian Jews as often called "Lithuanians" (''Lita'im'' or ''Litvaks'') by other Jew ...

: Tobijas * Polish: Tobiasz * Russian: Товий ''(Toviy)'' * Spanish: Tobías * Slovak: Tobiáš * Yiddish: טבֿיה (''Tevye'')

Only name

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 The Book of Tobit () ''Tōbith'' or ''Tōbit'' ( and spellings are also attested) itself from he, טובי ''Tovi'' "my good"; Book of Tobias in the Vulgate from the Greek ''Tōbias'', itself from the Hebrew ''Tovyah'' "Jah, Yah is good", al ...

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

Vulgate The Vulgate (; also called (Bible in common tongue), ) is a late-4th-century Bible translations into Latin, Latin translation of the Bible. The Vulgate is largely the work of Jerome who, in 382, had been commissioned by Pope Damasus&nbs ...

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) According to the Book of Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, Tobiah was an Ammonite official who attempted to hinder Nehemiah's efforts to rebuild Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile, and took over the storerooms of the Temple ...

- a significant leader of the opponents of

Nehemiah Nehemiah is the central figure of the Book of Nehemiah, which describes his work in rebuilding Jerusalem during the Second Temple period. He was governor of Persian Judea under Artaxerxes I of Persia (465–424 BC). The name is pronounced ...

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 Agapius, Atticus, Carterius, Styriacus (Styrax, Istucarius), Tobias (Pactobius), Eudoxius, Nictopolion, and Companions are venerated as Christian martyrs. They were soldiers who were burned at the stake at Sebaste in 315 AD, during the reign o ...

* Tobias of Jerusalem, 2nd-century bishop *

Tobias (bishop of Rochester) __NOTOC__ Tobias was a medieval Bishop of Rochester The Bishop of Rochester is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Rochester in the Province of Canterbury. The town of Rochester has the bishop's seat, at the Cathedral Church ...

, died 726

Given name

Tobias Abse Dr. Tobias Abse is a historian. He was a lecturer in the subject at Goldsmiths College of the University of London from 1994 to 2016. Abse has written extensively on the rise of the Fascist Right in Italy prior to World War II.https://books.google. ...

(professor) *

Tobias Abstreiter Tobias Abstreiter (born July 6, 1970) is a German former ice hockey centre. During his playing career he was described as a two-way player and a faceoff specialist. Professional career He started his career in 1987-88 with EV Landshut, playing ...

(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 Tobias Bernstrup (born 1970 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is a Swedish contemporary artist working with videos, interactive works, live performances and electronic music. He received an MFA from Royal College University of Fine Arts Stockholm in 199 ...

(contemporary artist) * Tobias Billström (politician) * Tobias Bjarneby (video game journalist) *

Tobias de Boer Pieter Cornelis Tobias de Boer (21 May 1930 – 2 May 2016) was a Dutch scientist. He was a professor at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Cornell University. His research interest were in the field of thermodynamics and ...

(scientist) *

Tobias Bogner Tobias Bogner (born May 28, 1990) is a German ski jumper. He debuted in the World Cup in the team competition in Willingen Willingen (official name: ''Willingen (Upland)'') is a municipality in Waldeck-Frankenberg in northern Hesse, Germany, ...

(ski jumper) * Tobias Bonhoeffer (neurobiologist) * Tobias Bridge (Major-General in the First English Civil War) *

Tobias S. Buckell Tobias S. Buckell (born 1979) is a New York Times Bestselling author and World Fantasy Award winner born in the Caribbean. He grew up in Grenada and spent time in the British and US Virgin Islands, which influence much of his work. His novels and ...

(science fiction author) * Tobias Capwell (born ), American curator, military historian and jouster * Tobias Carlsson (Kalmar FF footballer) * Tobías Zúñiga Castro (politician) * Tobias Cohn (17/18th century physician) * Tobias Cole (countertenor) *

Tobias Joaquim Dai General Tobias Joaquim Dai (born November 25, 1950) was Minister of National Defence of Mozambique from 2000 to 2008. He took office on January 17, 2000Tobias Dantzig (mathematician) * Tobias Delius (musician) * Tobias Dier (golfer) *

Tobias Druitt Tobias Druitt is an author of fantasy novels. Tobias Druitt is the pseudonym of two authors who write together, Diane Purkiss and Michael Dowling. Diane Purkiss is a tutor in English at Keble College, Oxford University, and she is the first Oxfo ...

(author, pseudonym) * Tobiah ben Eliezer * Tobias Ellwood (politician) *

Tobias Enhus Tobias Enhus is a Swedish music composer living in the US. His work has appeared in films, such as '' Black Hawk Down''. He has also created music for television commercials, including the haunting score (featuring female operatic singing) heard ...

(composer) * Tobias Enström (hockey defenceman) * Tobias Exxel (bass player from Edguy) * Tobias Forge (musician - Repugnant, Subvision, Ghost) *

Tobias Fornell ''NCIS'' is an American police procedural television series, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which investigates crimes involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The series wa ...

(character on the TV series "NCIS") * Tobias Forsberg (hockey winger) * Tobias Frere-Jones (type designer) * Tobias Fünke (character in the TV series ''Arrested Development'') * Tobias Furneaux (Royal Navy officer) *Tobías García Mota (Dominican-Mexican) * Tobias Geffen (rabbi) * Tobias Gentleman (fl. 1614, English mariner and writer) *

Tobias Grahn Tobias Grahn (born 5 March 1980) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He won the 2002 Norwegian Football Cup with Vålerenga and the 2004 Allsvenskan with Malmö FF. A full international between 200 ...

(Gimnàstic de Tarragona midfielder) * Tobias Gregson (fictional character in a number of the "Sherlock Holmes" novels) *

Tobias Grünenfelder Tobias Grünenfelder (born 27 November 1977 in Elm, Glarus, Elm) is a Switzerland, Swiss alpine skier. He is the 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2010 Swiss champion in super-G. He also won national Downhill gold in 2007 and 2009. He participated at the Wor ...

(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 Tobias Gilmore "T.G." Mealey (August 5, 1823 – April 27, 1904) was a Canadian-born American entrepreneur, politician, and early settler of Minnesota. He grew up in New Brunswick, made his fortune in the California Gold Rush, and became an influ ...

(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 Kamke (German tennis player) * 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 Tobias Levels (born 22 November 1986) is a German former footballer of Dutch descent who played as a defender. Club career After his contract with Fortuna Düsseldorf had expired in summer 2014, Levels was a free agent for more than three months ...

(German-Dutch footballer) * Tobias Lindemann (German architect, designer and media entrepreneur) * Tobias Linderoth (Galatasaray midfielder) *

Tobias Lohner Tobias Lohner (13 March 1619, in Neuötting in the Diocese of Salzburg – 26 (probably) May, 1697) was an Austrian Jesuit theologian. Life He entered the Society of Jesus on 30 August 1637, at Landsberg am Lech, and spent his first years in ...

(1619 - 1697, Austrian Jesuit theologian) * Tobias Mabuta Munihango (Namibian amateur boxer) * Tobias Matthay (teacher & composer) * Tobias Matthew (archbishop of York) * Tobias Mayer (astronomer) * Tobias Mehler (Canadian actor) * Tobias Menzies (actor) *

Tobias Michael Carel Asser Tobias Michael Carel Asser (; 28 April 1838 – 29 July 1913) was a Dutch lawyer and legal scholar. In 1911, he won the Nobel Peace Prize (together with Alfred Fried) for his work in the field of private international law, and in particular fo ...

(jurist) * Tobias Mikaelsson (Swedish football player) * Tobias Mikkelsen (Danish football player) *

Tobias Moretti Tobias Moretti (; born Tobias Bloéb; 11 July 1959) is an Austrian actor. Biography Born in Gries am Brenner, Tyrol, Moretti is the eldest of four brothers, including Thomas, Christoph and fellow actor Gregor Bloéb. Since 1997, he has been marri ...

(actor) * Tobias Mullen (1818-1900, Irish-born clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop of Erie) *

Tobias Müller (disambiguation) Tobias Müller may refer to: * Tobias Müller (footballer, born 1989), Swiss footballer * Tobias Müller (footballer, born 1993), German footballer * Tobias Müller (footballer, born 1994), German footballer * Tobias Müller (darts player) Tob ...

* Tobias Nath (German television actor) *

Tobias Nickenig Tobias Nickenig (born 1 August 1984) is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender. Career 1. FC Köln Born in Neuwied, Nickenig came through the 1. FC Köln youth system. In the 2005–06 season, he was called up for th ...

(German footballer) *

Tobias Norris Tobias Crawford Norris (September 5, 1861 – October 29, 1936) was a Canadian politician who served as the tenth premier of Manitoba from 1915 to 1922. Norris was a member of the Liberal Party.J. M. Bumsted"Tobias Crawford Norris" ''The Cana ...

(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 Tobias Reinhardt (born 31 August 1971) is a German classical scholar, specialising in Latin literature and ancient philosophy. Since 2008, he has been the Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Corpus Christi ...

(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 Tobias Schönenberg (born 17 August 1986 in Hagen, West Germany) is a German actor and film director. In 2003, Tobias began earning money as a photomodel. He had always planned to study medicine, but a year and a half later, his career took off w ...

(actor & photomodel) *

Tobias Schweinsteiger Tobias Schweinsteiger (; born 12 March 1982) is a retired German footballer, who is the head coach of VfL Osnabrück. As player he was deployed as a midfielder or forward. He is the older brother of former German international Bastian Schweinste ...

(German footballer) * Tobias Simon (Miami civil rights lawyer) * Tobias Sippel (German football goalkeeper) * Tobias Sjokvist (born 1995), Swedish ice hockey player * 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 Tobias is the transliteration of the Greek which is a translation of the Hebrew biblical name he, טוֹבִיה, Toviyah, JahGod is good, label=none. With the biblical Book of Tobias being present in the Deuterocanon/ Apocrypha of the Bi ...

(born 1994), Swedish ice hockey player * Tobias Truvillion (African-American actor) * Tobias Unger (athlete) * Tobias Verhaecht (draughtsman) * Tobias Verwey (Namibian cricketer) *

Tobias Viklund Tobias Viklund (born 8 May 1986) is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman, who is currently under contract with Modo Hockey of the HockeyAllsvenskan (Allsv). Playing career Viklund joined Russian club, Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg of ...

(Swedish ice hockey defenceman) * Tobias Weis (German footballer) * Tobias Wendl (German luger) * Tobias Whale (fictional character in DC comics) *

Tobias Willi Tobias Willi (born 14 December 1979 in Freiburg) is a German former professional football midfielder who played for SC Freiburg, Austria Salzburg, and MSV Duisburg Meidericher Spielverein 02 e. V. Duisburg, commonly known as simply MSV Duisbu ...

(former German football player) * Tobias Wolff (writer) * Tobias Zachary Ziegler (fictional character in the TV drama ''The West Wing'')

Derivative name

* Tobey Maguire (actor) *

Toby Isaacs '' Degrassi: The Next Generation'' is a Canadian teen drama television series created by Linda Schuyler and Yan Moore. The series is now considered the first incarnation and premiered on CTV on October 14, 2001, and then ended on MTV Canada and ...

(fictional character from the TV series ''Degrassi: The Next Generation'') * Toby Jessel (British politician)

Fictional

* Tobias Beckett, character in '' Solo: A Star Wars Story'' and mentor to Han Solo *

, character on the CBS show, ''

NCIS NCIS or N.C.I.S. may refer to: Law enforcement * National Criminal Intelligence Service, the predecessor to the Serious Organised Crime Agency of the United Kingdom * Naval Criminal Investigative Service, a United States law enforcement and intelli ...

'' * Tobias Fünke, character on the Fox sitcom, '' Arrested Development'' *Tobias, character on the CBS daytime drama series, ''

The Young and the Restless ''The Young and the Restless'' (often abbreviated as ''Y&R'') is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in fictional Genoa City (not the real-life similarly-named Genoa City ...

'' * Tobias Snape, father of Severus Snape from the ''Harry Potter'' series *

Tobias Eaton This is a list of major and minor characters in the ''Divergent'' book trilogy and its subsequent film adaptation, ''The Divergent Series''. Main characters Tris Prior Beatrice "Tris" Prior is the viewpoint character in '' Divergent'' and ...

, 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 An adaptation is a transfer of a work of art from one style, culture or medium to another. Some common examples are: * Film adaptation, a story from another work, adapted into a film (it may be a novel, non-fiction like journalism, autobiography, ...

'' *Tobias Rieper, false name used by

Agent 47 Agent 47 is a fictional character, the protagonist and the player character of the ''Hitman'' video game franchise, developed by IO Interactive. He has been featured in all games of the series, as well as various spin-off media, including two th ...

on the video game

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As a surname

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Places

Tobias, Nebraska Tobias is a village in Saline County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 106 at the 2010 census. History Tobias was platted in 1884 when the railroad was extended to that point. It was named for Tobias Castor, a local settler. 1925 ...

, a village in the United States * Tobias, Ohio, a village in the United States * Tobias Barreto, Sergipe, a municipality in Brazil *

Tobias Fornier, Antique Tobias Fornier, officially the Municipality of Tobias Fornier, ( krj, Banwa kang Tobias Fornier; hil, Banwa sang Tobias Fornier; tl, Bayan ng Tobias Fornier), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Antique, Philippines. According to the ...

, a municipality in the Philippines * Tobías Bolaños International Airport in Costa Rica * Tobias-Thompson Complex, a United States National Historic Landmark

Companies

* Tobias (bass guitar company) * Michael Tobias Design bass guitar company

Other

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