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Definition of Book of Leviticus
1. Noun. The third book of the Old Testament; contains Levitical law and ritual precedents.
Generic synonyms: Book
Group relationships: Old Testament, Laws, Pentateuch, Torah
Derivative terms: Levitical
Lexicographical Neighbors of Book Of Leviticus
Literary usage of Book of Leviticus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1872)
"The Book of Leviticus, offering fewer themes of permanent interest than other
books of the Pentateuch, has been comparatively neglected. ..."
2. Literature of Theology: A Classified Bibliography of Theological and General by John Fletcher Hurst (1896)
"Notes, Critical and Practical, on the Book of Leviticus. Designed as a General
Help to Biblical Reading and Instruction. ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by Sir William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"A similarity so close can only have arisen in one of four ways: (1) Either Ezekiel
borrowed largely from the Book of Leviticus; or(2) those chapters of the ..."
4. Living Messages of the Books of the Bible by George Campbell Morgan (1912)
"The book of Leviticus deals with the first half of the second part of the message
of Exodus, having to do wholly with worship. ..."
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