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BOOK OF TOBIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Book of Tobit mean? 

BOOK OF TOBIT (noun)
  The noun BOOK OF TOBIT has 1 sense:

1. an Apocryphal book that was a popular novel for several centuriesplay

  Familiarity information: BOOK OF TOBIT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BOOK OF TOBIT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An Apocryphal book that was a popular novel for several centuries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Book of Tobit; Tobit

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("Book of Tobit" is a part of...):

Apocrypha (14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status)


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