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MOSAIC LAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mosaic law mean? 

MOSAIC LAW (noun)
  The noun MOSAIC LAW has 1 sense:

1. the laws (beginning with the Ten Commandments) that God gave to the Israelites through Moses; it includes many rules of religious observance given in the first five books of the Old Testament (in Judaism these books are called the Torah)play

  Familiarity information: MOSAIC LAW used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MOSAIC LAW (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The laws (beginning with the Ten Commandments) that God gave to the Israelites through Moses; it includes many rules of religious observance given in the first five books of the Old Testament (in Judaism these books are called the Torah)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Law of Moses; Mosaic law

Hypernyms ("Mosaic law" is a kind of...):

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)


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