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Definition of Pentateuch
1. Noun. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit.
Generic synonyms: Religious Text, Religious Writing, Sacred Text, Sacred Writing
Terms within: Book Of Genesis, Genesis, Book Of Exodus, Exodus, Book Of Leviticus, Leviticus, Book Of Numbers, Numbers, Book Of Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy
Group relationships: Old Testament, Hebrew Scripture, Tanach, Tanakh
Definition of Pentateuch
1. n. The first five books of the Old Testament, collectively; -- called also the Law of Moses, Book of the Law of Moses, etc.
Definition of Pentateuch
1. Proper noun. The Torah: the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentateuch
Literary usage of Pentateuch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"It ignores the fact, says Klostermann, that the pentateuch was a book for the
edification of the community, in the transmission of which the emphasis must ..."
2. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, Horatio Balch Hackett, Ezra Abbot (1872)
"13, a form which disappears altogether after the pentateuch ; many ... 3-5) is
a compendium, as it were, of the history of the pentateuch from Exodus ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"If the pentateuch is a compilation, and if the documents used by the compiler
were written subsequently to Moses, is it possible to arrange them ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"(2) A less liberal interpretation of the Decree is implied in the pentateuchal
hypotheses advanced by Hoberg ("Moses und der pentateuch; Die pentateuch ..."
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