TOBIAH male Biblical From the Hebrew name טוֹבִיָּה (Toviyyah) which meant "YAHWEH is good". This was the name of an Ammonite in the Book of Nehemiah in the Old Testament. | ||||||||||||||||||||
YAHWEH male Theology A name of the Hebrew God, represented in Hebrew by the tetragrammaton ("four letters") יהוה (Yod Heh Vav Heh), which was transliterated into Roman script as Y H W H. Because it was considered blasphemous to utter the name of God, it was only written and never spoken, which resulted in the original pronunciation becoming lost. The name may have originally been derived from the old Semitic root הוה (hawah) meaning "to be" or "to become". |
EQUIVALENTS |
BIBLICAL GREEK: Tobias |
BIBLICAL HEBREW: Toviyyah |
BIBLICAL LATIN: Tobias |
BIBLICAL: Tobiah, Tobias |
DANISH: Tobias |
ENGLISH: Tobias, Toby |
FINNISH: Topias |
GERMAN: Tobias |
HEBREW: Tovia |
NORWEGIAN: Tobias |
POLISH: Tobiasz |
SWEDISH: Tobias |
YIDDISH: Tevye |
DIMINUTIVES AND SHORT FORMS |
FINNISH: Topi |
OTHER FORMS |
ENGLISH: Tobin |
THEOLOGY: Yahweh |