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HEBREW SCRIPTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hebrew Scripture mean? 

HEBREW SCRIPTURE (noun)
  The noun HEBREW SCRIPTURE has 1 sense:

1. the Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the Torah and the Prophets and the Writingsplay

  Familiarity information: HEBREW SCRIPTURE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HEBREW SCRIPTURE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the Torah and the Prophets and the Writings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Hebrew Scripture; Tanach; Tanakh

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Hebrew Scripture"):

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)

Nebiim; Prophets (the second of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)

Hagiographa; Ketubim; Writings (the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)


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