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DEUTERONOMY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Deuteronomy mean?
• DEUTERONOMY (noun)
The noun DEUTERONOMY has 1 sense:
1. the fifth book of the Old Testament; contains a second statement of Mosaic law
Familiarity information: DEUTERONOMY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The fifth book of the Old Testament; contains a second statement of Mosaic law
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Book of Deuteronomy; Deuteronomy
Instance hypernyms:
book (a major division of a long written composition)
Meronyms (parts of "Deuteronomy"):
mezuza; mezuzah (religious texts from Deuteronomy inscribed on parchment and rolled up in a case that is attached to the doorframe of many Jewish households in accordance with Jewish law)
Holonyms ("Deuteronomy" is a part of...):
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)
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