Tobit

English

From the Ancient Greek Τωβίτ (Tōbít), from Hebrew טוֹבִי (tovi, literally “my good”).

Tobit

(biblical) A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
(rare) A male given name from Hebrew.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Tobit 1:3:
  I Tobit have walked all the days of my life in the ways of truth and justice, and I did many almsdeeds to my brethren, and my nation, who came with me to Nineve, into the land of the Assyrians.

the book of the Bible

Arabic: سِفْر طُوبِيَا m (sifr ṭūbiyā)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܟܬܒܐ ܕܛܘܒܝܛ
Armenian: Թոբիթ (Tʻobitʻ)
Asturian: Tobíes (ast)
Catalan: Llibre de Tobies m
German: Tobit m, Tobias (de) m
Greek: Τωβίτ (el) m (Tovít)
Hebrew: טוֹבִי m (tovi)
Polish: Księga Tobiasza f, Księga Tobita f
Romanian: Tobit m
Russian: Книга Товита f (Kniga Tovita)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Књига о Товиту f, Тобијa m

Roman: Knjiga o Tobitu f, Tobija (sh) m
Spanish: Tobías (es) m

male given name

Coined by A. S. Goldberg in 1964[1] as these type of models were first proposed by James Tobin [2] and are similar to probit models.

Tobit (uncountable)

Goldberg, A. S. (1964) Econometric Theory, New York: John Wiley & Sons
Tobin, James (1958) “Estimation of relationships for limited dependent variables”, in Econometrica‎, volume 26, number 1, The Econometric Society, →DOI, pages 24–36

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