BD Apocrypha The Book of Tobit. The story is briefly as follows: Tobit is a Jew of t he tribe of Naphtali, living in Nineveh, a pious God-fearing man and ver y strict in the observance of the Jewish law. Trouble comes upon him, an d he loses his eyesight. Raphael is a Hebrew name meaning "God Has Healed"; Rapha; Portuguese: R afa; Spanish: Rafa; Alternates: Raphaelle; Catalan: Rafel; German: Rafae l; Italian: Raffaele, Raffaello; Polish: Rachwal, Rafal; Portuguese: Raf ael; Spanish: Rafael.Religious Figures Raphael The name of this archangel (Raphael = "God has healed") does not appear in the Hebrew Scriptures, and in the Septuagint only in the Book of Tob ias. Here he first appears disguised in human form as the travelling com panion of theyounger Tobias,