Definitions for "Pentateuch"
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The first five books of the Old Testament, collectively; -- called also the Law of Moses, Book of the Law of Moses, etc.
(Gr.) First five books of the Hebrew Scriptures; also known as the five books of Moses (Heb., Humash) or Torah.
The first five books of scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy; the first of three major divisions of the Hebrew Bible
The Torah; the first major division of the Bible, containing the Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
Meaning five (5) books. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Torah
(from Greek, meaning work comprised of five volumes): a set of five Bible books: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
A reference to the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, & Deuteronomy.
The five books of Moses contained in the Torah scroll.
(KHOO-mahsh) n. Chumash; Pentateuch; the first five books of Moses, usually bound in a codex (book) form and accompanied with commentary. The five books of Moses; the Torah. From the Greek, meaning "five scrolls."
5 Books of Moses; comes from the Latin root word meaning "five".
The first five books of the Bible authored by Moses.
The first five books of the Bible taken collectively
is a name derived from Greek for the first five books of the Old Testament commonly known in Hebrew as the Humash (Soulen, Handbook of Biblical Criticism).
Literally, "the fivefold volume," referring to the first five books of the Bible.
volume containing the first five books of the Bible; Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy
The biblical books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. The term is from the Greek for "five" and "book." The Pentateuch is traditionally called the Five Books of Moses. The Hebrew term Torah is also used to indicate the Pentateuch.
the first 5 books of the OT (Genesis - Deuteronomy), from Greek "penta-", five.
(Greek: five books/scrolls) The first five books of the Jewish Scriptures (Torah) or the Christian Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
Literally "five jars/scrolls," this is the Greek term for the first five books of the Jewish Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy), known in Hebrew as the Torah or instruction. Scholars now believe that the first four of these books were compiled over centuries from and by four different traditions, the Yahwist, Elohist, Deuteronomist (responsible for the entire book of Deuteronomy as well), and the Priestly (see Documentary Hypothesis, and two online charts, The Documentary Hypothesis and The Deuteronomistic History).
The Greek term for the first five books of the Bible, the five books of Moses ( penta means "five"). This term came into use when the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament) began to be translated into Greek about 300 B.C.
The first five books of the Bible supposedly written by Moses. The books cover a period of time from the beginning of the universe up to a point somewhat after the death of Moses, it's author.
(from Greek for "five scroll jars" it comes to mean "five books/scrolls"; adj. Pentateuchal) Refers to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible traditionally attributed to Moses that together comprise the Torah (the t of Tanak): Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy; known in Jewish tradition as Torat Mosheh, the teaching of Moses. See Part 1.
another name for the Torah, or the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures.
Pentateuch (ΠεντετεÏχως) ("five rolls or cases") is the Greek name for the first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible: the name is derived from two Greek words: pente, meaning "five", and teuxos (pronounced tev-chos) which roughly means "case", a reference to the cases containing the five scrolls of the Laws of Moses.