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BOOK OF EXODUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Book of Exodus mean?
• BOOK OF EXODUS (noun)
The noun BOOK OF EXODUS has 1 sense:
1. the second book of the Old Testament: tells of the departure of the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt led by Moses; God gave them the Ten Commandments and the rest of Mosaic law on Mount Sinai during the Exodus
Familiarity information: BOOK OF EXODUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The second book of the Old Testament: tells of the departure of the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt led by Moses; God gave them the Ten Commandments and the rest of Mosaic law on Mount Sinai during the Exodus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Book of Exodus; Exodus
Instance hypernyms:
book (a major division of a long written composition)
Holonyms ("Book of Exodus" is a part of...):
Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)
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)
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