lawgiver

Converse of subject

give: These ânatural lawsâ are given by a personal lawgiver and obeyed by personal agents.

Converse of object

have: Therefore, the Law of Gravity has a lawgiver.

Adjective modifier

• great: Tho he was by then surely accepted as the great lawgiver of the Jews, his dramatic biography had not yet been written.
• moral: If you believe in moral law you must also believe in a moral lawgiver.
• Levitical: For the Levitical lawgiver the figure of Yahweh corresponds to the figure of the pharaoh.
• biblical: It is common to think that the biblical lawgiver only constructs laws as a direct response to social and economic forces in his time.
• wise: You might call me Merlin or Saturn, the wise old lawgiver.
• Jewish: Even in the bible, considering that Moses is the Jewish lawgiver, he is rarely mentioned in the Jewish scriptures outside of Exodus.