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tanakh
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tanakh has 1 sense
- tanakh(n = noun.communication) hebrew scripture, tanach - the Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the Torah and the Prophets and the Writings; Array is a kind of religious text, religious writing, sacred text, sacred writing
has parts: laws, pentateuch, torah, nebiim, prophets, hagiographa, ketubim, writings
CIDE DICTIONARY
tanakh, n. [From the initial (Hebrew) letters of Torah, Nevi'im, and Kethubim.].
a term used among Jews for the Hebrew Bible; the Old Testament.
"Although Christians use the term “Old Testament”, this term implies the superseding force of the “New Testament”, not recognized as revelation by the Jewish faith."
[PJC]
"The Hebrew Bible is divided into three parts: (1) The Torah , “Law,” or Pentateuch. (2) The Prophets . . . (3) The Kethubim, or the “Writings,” generally termed Hagiographa ."
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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