BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Book of Deuteronomy mean? 

• BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY (noun)
  The noun BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY has 1 sense:

1. the fifth book of the Old Testament; contains a second statement of Mosaic law

  Familiarity information: BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The fifth book of the Old Testament; contains a second statement of Mosaic law

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Book of Deuteronomy; Deuteronomy

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Meronyms (parts of "Book of Deuteronomy"):

mezuza; mezuzah (religious texts from Deuteronomy inscribed on parchment and rolled up in a case that is attached to the doorframe of many Jewish households in accordance with Jewish law)

Holonyms ("Book of Deuteronomy" is a part of...):

Laws; Pentateuch; Torah (the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit)