torah

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: To=rah
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

torah, n. [Heb. tōrāh.].

 A law; a precept.
"A considerable body of priestly Toroth."
"Tora, . . . before the time of Malachi, is generally used of the revelations of God's will made through the prophets."
"The Hebrew Bible is divided into three parts: (1) The Torah, “Law,” or Pentateuch. (2) The Prophets (Nevi'im in Hebrew) . . . (3) The Kethubim, or the “Writings,” generally termed Hagiographa. From the first letters of these three parts, the word “Tanakh” is derived, and used by Jews as the name of their Bible, the Christian Old Testament."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

torah, n.
1 (usu. prec. by the) a the Pentateuch. b a scroll containing this.
2 the will of God as revealed in Mosaic law.

Etymology

Heb. torah instruction

THESAURUS

torah

Apocrypha, Chumash, Hagiographa, Hexateuch, Major Prophets, Nebiim, Octateuch, Old Testament, Pentateuch, Sefer Torah, Tenach, Torah scroll, Virginal, breviary, canon, church book, euchologion, euchology, farse, formulary, lectionary, litany, machzor, manual, missal, ordinal, pontifical, prayer book, ritual, rituale, rubric, service book, siddur, the Law, the Prophets, the Writings