Leviticus Definition

ləvitikəs
noun
The third book of the Pentateuch in the Bible, containing the laws relating to priests and Levites.
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Synonyms:
  • Book of Leviticus
pronoun

The third of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the third book in the Torah.

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Origin of Leviticus

  • Derived from the Latin Liber Leviticus which is from the Greek (το) Λευιτικόν (i.e., βιβλίον). In Jewish writings it is customary to cite the book by its first word, וַיִּקְרָא (Vayikrá, “and he called").

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Leviticus Sentence Examples

  • The Priestly Code (Leviticus and allied passages) seems to confine the efficacy 2 Rutherford, Radioactivity.

  • Cedar-wood is earliest noticed in Leviticus xiv.

  • Of this halakhic Midrash we possess that on Exodus, called Mekhilta, that on Leviticus, called Sifra, and that on Numbers and Deuteronomy, called Sifre.

  • This involves the view that the historical traditions are mainly due to two characteristic though very complicated recensions, one under the influence of the teaching of Deuteronomy (Joshua to Kings, see § 20), the other, of a more priestly character (akin to Leviticus), of somewhat later date (Genesis to Joshua, with traces in Judges to Kings, see § 23).

  • In his principal work, Die geschichtlichen Bucher des Allen Testaments (1866), he sought to show that the priestly legislation of Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers is of later origin than the book of Deuteronomy.

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