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torah |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Torah \To"rah\, Tora \To"ra\, n.; pl {Toroth}. [Heb. t[=o]r[=a]h.] (Jewish Lit.) a A law; a precept. A considerable body of priestly Toroth. --S. R. Driver. b Divine instruction; revelation. Tora, . . . before the time of Malachi, is generally used of the revelations of God's will made through the prophets. --T. K. Cheyne. c The Pentateuch or ``Law of Moses.'' The Hebrew Bible is divided into three parts: (1) The Torah, ``Law,'' or Pentateuch. (2) The Prophets . . . (3) The Kethubim or the ``Writings,'' generally termed Hagiographa. --C. H. H. Wright. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Torah n : the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit [syn: {Pentateuch}, {Torah}, {Laws}]
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