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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TORAH; TORA

To "rah, To "ra, n.; pl. Toroth (#). [Heb. torah. ] (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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

Torah

To rah |ˈtōrə, ˈtô -, tôˈrä ˈtɔrə | noun (usu. the Torah ) (in Judaism ) the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures (the Pentateuch ). a scroll containing this. ORIGIN from Hebrew tōrāh instruction, doctrine, law, from yārāh show, direct, instruct.

 

Oxford Dictionary

Torah

Torah |ˈtɔːrɑː, tɔːˈrɑː | noun (usu. the Torah ) (in Judaism ) the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures (the Pentateuch ). ORIGIN from Hebrew tōrāh instruction, doctrine, law , from yārāh show, direct, instruct .

 

Spanish Dictionary

torah

torah nombre femenino Torá .Se pronuncia ‘torá ’.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

Torah

To rah /tɔ́ːrə, tóʊ -/名詞 the 1 ユダヤ教 法律, トーラ .2 聖書 モーセの5書 (Pentateuch ).