Tobiasz

  • [ TAW-byahsh ]
  • Polish
Polish form of TOBIAS.

TOBIAS   male   Biblical, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Greek form of TOBIAH. This is the name of the hero of the apocryphal Book of Tobit, which appears in many English versions of the Old Testament. It relates how Tobit's son Tobias, with the help of the angel Raphael, is able to drive away a demon who has plagued Sarah, who subsequently becomes his wife. This story was popular in the Middle Ages, and the name came into occasional use in parts of Europe at that time. In England it became common after the Protestant Reformation.
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, Tuvya
NORWEGIAN: Tobias
SWEDISH: Tobias
YIDDISH: Tevye
DIMINUTIVES AND SHORT FORMS
FINNISH: Topi
OTHER FORMS
ENGLISH: Tobin
THEOLOGY: Yahweh