Torah meaning

tôr'ə, toir'ə, tô-rä'
The first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures.
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A scroll of parchment containing the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures, used in a synagogue during services.
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The entire body of religious law and learning including both sacred literature and oral tradition.
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Origin of torah

  • Hebrew tôrâ law, instruction from hôrâ to throw, direct, teach derived stem of yārâ to throw, shoot wrw in Semitic roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Torah Sentence Examples

  • The Torah of Jesus was essentially prophetic and in no sense priestly or legal.

  • His charity towards men is given its finest expression in the answer which he made to a proselyte who asked to be taught the commandments of the Torah in the shortest possible form: "What is unpleasant to thyself that do not to thy neighbour; this is the whole Law, all else is but its exposition."

  • Rather it was implicitly contained in the Torah, and the duty of the teacher was to show this.

  • And thus Israel's old prophetic Torah was at length to achieve its victory, for after Jesus came St Paul.

  • The Ark of the Law, in the Jewish synagogue, is a chest or cupboard containing the scrolls of the Torah (Pentateuch), and is placed against or in the wall in the direction of Jerusalem.

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