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.