Bible Dictionary: Torah

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

TORAH

to'-ra.

See LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT; REVELATION.

Strong's Hebrew

8451. torah -- direction, instruction, law
... 8450, 8451. torah. 8452 . direction, instruction, law. Transliteration: torah
Phonetic Spelling: (to-raw') Short Definition: law. ... 8450, 8451. torah. 8452 ...
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8452. torah -- law
... 8451, 8452. torah. 8453 . law. Transliteration: torah Phonetic Spelling:
(to-raw') Short Definition: law. Word Origin probably fem. ... 8451, 8452. torah. ...
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Library

The Development of the Earlier Old Testament Laws
... [Sidenote: Meaning of the Hebrew word for law]. Torah, the common Hebrew word for
law, comes from a Hebrew word meaning to point out or direct. ...
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What did Moses Write?
... The Jews in the time of our Lord always considered these five books as one connected
work; they called the whole sometimes "Torah," or "The Law," sometimes ...
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Text-Divisions: Stichi, Chapters, Lections, Catenae.
... number of verses (psvqym) at the end of each book and portion of the canon; thus
Deuteronomy is stated to consist of 955 pesukim, and the entire Torah of 5888. ...
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Influences that Gave Rise to the Priestly Laws and Histories
... technically known as the Priestly teaching (Leviticus 1.iii., v.-vii., xi.-xv.;
Numbers 5. vi., xv., xix.14-22), is repeatedly designated as the torah of the ...
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Man and the New Covenant.
... The passage "promises a new Covenant"not a new Torah but only a more inward
assimilation of the Torah by the people, and emphasises the good results which ...
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The Formation of the Old Testament Canon
... Primarily this was probably due to the fact that each was based upon a divine torah
or decision, received from Jehovah through the priestly oracle. ...
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The Bible in the Days of Jesus Christ
... The 'Torah'"that is, the Law"included, as we have seen, the first five
books of the Bible. From the very earliest days the Torah ...
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The Old Faith Preparing for the New - Development of Hellenist ...
... Did not Scripture say: One thing spake God, twofold is what I heard,' [161] and
did not this imply a twofold meaning; nay, could not the Torah be explained by ...
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Jeremiah and Deuteronomy. (Chs. vii, viii. 8, xi. )
... did not know the Lord.(292) And now in an Oracle, apparently of date after the
discovery, he charges the scribes with manipulating the Law, the Torah, so as to ...
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Appendix v. Rabbinic Theology and Literature
... also the name given to oral tradition. [6385] It was said that the Torah
was given to Moses (Jer. Sheq. vi.1) in (letters of) white ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/appendix v rabbinic theology and.htm

Thesaurus

Torah
Torah. Top-stone, Torah. Torch . Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia
TORAH. to'-ra. See LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT; REVELATION. ...
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Genesis
... The five books of Moses were collectively called the Pentateuch, a word of Greek
origin meaning "the five-fold book." The Jews called them the Torah, ie, "the ...
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Talmud
... The Law found in the Torah of Moses was the only written law which the Jews
possessed after their return from the Babylonian exile. ...
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Torch (6 Occurrences)

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Education (4 Occurrences)
... 27:1-8). From the Deuteronomic period forward, religious training to the Jew became
the synonym of education, while the word Torah, which originally denoted ...
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Samaritan (8 Occurrences)
... Words are separated from each other by dots; sentences by a sign like our
colon. The Torah is divided into 966 qisam or paragraphs. ...
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Law (670 Occurrences)
... the whole body of the Mosaic legislation (1 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 23:25; Ezra 3:2).
It is called by way of eminence simply "the Law" (Hebrews Torah, Deuteronomy 1 ...
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Nehelamite (4 Occurrences)
... T. Nicol. LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. " I. TERMS USED 1. Torah ("Law") 2. Synonyms
of Torah (1 ... I. Terms Used. The Hebrew word rendered "law" in our Bibles is torah...
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Zebadiah (9 Occurrences)
... 1) Levites: (a) a Korahite doorkeeper of David's reign (1 Chronicles 26:2); (b)
one of the Levites sent by King Jehoshaphat to teach the Torah in Judah (2 ...
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Jamin (6 Occurrences)
... (3) In Nehemiah 8:7, a Levite (?), one of those who "caused the people to understand"
the Torah when Ezra enforced it = "Iadinus" in 1 Esdras 9:48. ...
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Subtopics

Torah

Related Terms

Genesis

Talmud

Torch (6 Occurrences)

Education (4 Occurrences)

Samaritan (8 Occurrences)

Law (670 Occurrences)

Nehelamite (4 Occurrences)

Zebadiah (9 Occurrences)

Jamin (6 Occurrences)