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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 centuries
Familiarity information: BOOK OF TOBIT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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