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MOSAIC LAW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Mosaic law mean?
• MOSAIC LAW (noun)
The noun MOSAIC LAW has 1 sense:
1. the laws (beginning with the Ten Commandments) that God gave to the Israelites through Moses; it includes many rules of religious observance given in the first five books of the Old Testament (in Judaism these books are called the Torah)
Familiarity information: MOSAIC LAW used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The laws (beginning with the Ten Commandments) that God gave to the Israelites through Moses; it includes many rules of religious observance given in the first five books of the Old Testament (in Judaism these books are called the Torah)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Law of Moses; Mosaic law
Hypernyms ("Mosaic law" is a kind of...):
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
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