PENTATEUCH Definition & Meaning

Pentateuch

[ pen-tuh-took, -tyook ]

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noun

Chiefly Christianity.

Usually the Pentateuch. the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Compare Torah ( def 1 ).

Pentateuch

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noun

the first five books of the Old Testament regarded as a unity

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Derived Forms

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of Pentateuch¹

First recorded in 1375–1425; from Late Latin Pentateuchus, from Late Greek ��Գ�á�ٱ�ܳ��ǲ�, from Greek penta- penta- + �ٱ�û��ǲ� “tool, vessel” (in Late Greek: “scroll case book”)

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of Pentateuch¹

C16: from Church Latin pentateuchus, from Greek penta- + teukhos tool (in Late Greek: scroll)

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The Hebrew Bible contains 24 separate books organized into three parts — the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Writings.

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The Hebrew Bible comprises 24 books divided into three parts: the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Writings.

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The Hebrew Bible contains 24 separate books organized into three parts — the Pentateuch, the Prophets and the Writings.

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Leviticus 25:9–36, from the first five books of the Old Testament — the Torah in Judaism, Pentateuch in Christianity and Tawrat in Islam — offers perhaps the world's earliest written social justice and welfare document.

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“A Fence Around the Torah,” which opens this week and runs through March 29, features an ancient Pentateuch — a text of the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

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