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LEVITICUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Leviticus mean?
• LEVITICUS (noun)
The noun LEVITICUS has 1 sense:
1. the third book of the Old Testament; contains Levitical law and ritual precedents
Familiarity information: 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 ("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)
Derivation:
Levitical (of or relating to the book of Leviticus in the Bible)
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