BOOK OF NUMBERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Book of Numbers mean? 

• BOOK OF NUMBERS (noun)
  The noun BOOK OF NUMBERS has 1 sense:

1. the fourth book of the Old Testament; contains a record of the number of Israelites who followed Moses out of Egypt

  Familiarity information: BOOK OF NUMBERS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOOK OF NUMBERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The fourth book of the Old Testament; contains a record of the number of Israelites who followed Moses out of Egypt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Book of Numbers; Numbers

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("Book of Numbers" 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)