TORAH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Torah mean? 

• TORAH (noun)
  The noun TORAH has 3 senses:

1. the whole body of the Jewish sacred writings and tradition including the oral tradition

2. the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit

3. (Judaism) the scroll of parchment on which the first five books of the Hebrew Scripture is written; is used in a synagogue during services

  Familiarity information: TORAH used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TORAH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The whole body of the Jewish sacred writings and tradition including the oral tradition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Instance hypernyms:

religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Laws; Pentateuch; Torah

Instance hypernyms:

religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)

Meronyms (parts of "Torah"):

Book of Genesis; Genesis (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)

Book of Exodus; Exodus (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)

Book of Leviticus; Leviticus (the third book of the Old Testament; contains Levitical law and ritual precedents)

Book of Numbers; Numbers (the fourth book of the Old Testament; contains a record of the number of Israelites who followed Moses out of Egypt)

Book of Deuteronomy; Deuteronomy (the fifth book of the Old Testament; contains a second statement of Mosaic law)

Holonyms ("Torah" 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)

Hebrew Scripture; Tanach; Tanakh (the Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the Torah and the Prophets and the Writings)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(Judaism) the scroll of parchment on which the first five books of the Hebrew Scripture is written; is used in a synagogue during services

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Torah" is a kind of...):

roll; scroll (a document that can be rolled up (as for storage))

Domain category:

Judaism (the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud)

 Context examples 

The monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud.

(Judaism, NCI Thesaurus)