Main Menu | List of entries | finished

THOBIE1. Tobias, the elder, was an honest man of the tribe of Naphthali and was exiled to Assyria. The book of Tobias, one of the Apocryphal books, is included in the Septuagint and the Vulgate.

Dame Prudence quotes Tobias, Mel 1118, from Tobias 4:19.

Thobie is the French variant; intrusive h after t was not pronounced.


EJ XV:1183-1187.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

Main Menu | List of entries | finished