BOOK OF GENESIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Book of Genesis mean? 

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

1. the first book of the Old Testament: tells of Creation; Adam and Eve; the Fall of Man; Cain and Abel; Noah and the flood; God's covenant with Abraham; Abraham and Isaac; Jacob and Esau; Joseph and his brothers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOOK OF GENESIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The first book of the Old Testament: tells of Creation; Adam and Eve; the Fall of Man; Cain and Abel; Noah and the flood; God's covenant with Abraham; Abraham and Isaac; Jacob and Esau; Joseph and his brothers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Book of Genesis; Genesis

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Domain member category:

Babel; Tower of Babel ((Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another)

Holonyms ("Book of Genesis" 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)