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BOOK OF LEVITICUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Book of Leviticus mean?
• BOOK OF LEVITICUS (noun)
The noun BOOK OF LEVITICUS has 1 sense:
1. the third book of the Old Testament; contains Levitical law and ritual precedents
Familiarity information: BOOK OF LEVITICUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The third book of the Old Testament; contains Levitical law and ritual precedents
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Book of Leviticus; Leviticus
Instance hypernyms:
book (a major division of a long written composition)
Holonyms ("Book of Leviticus" 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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