Tobias

Male given name
Tobias and the Angel

Tobias is the transliteration of the Koinē Greek: Τωβίας, which is a Graecisation of the Hebrew biblical name טוֹבִיה, Toviyah, 'Yah is good'. With the biblical Book of Tobit being present in the Deuterocanonical books and Biblical apocrypha, Tobias 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 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

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 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

Other

People with given name

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 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, see List of Pokémon anime characters
  • Tobias Tenma, protagonist of the movie Astro Boy
  • Tobias, character in the book series Animorphs and its TV adaptation
  • Tobias Rieper, false name used by Agent 47 on the video game Hitman

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Tobias
  • Tobias (surname)
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