Pentateuch
pronunciation
How to pronounce Pentateuch in British English:
UK [ˈpentətju:k]
How to pronounce Pentateuch in American English:
US [ˈpɛntəˌtuk, -ˌtjuk]
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- Noun:
- the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit
Word Origin
- Pentateuch
- first five books of the Bible, c. 1400, from Late Latin pentateuchus (Tertullian, c.207), from Greek pentateukhos (c. 160), originally an adjective (abstracted from phrase pentateukhos biblos), from pente "five" (see five) + teukhos "implement, vessel, gear" (in Late Greek "book," via notion of "case for scrolls"), literally "anything produced," related to teukhein "to make ready," from PIE *dheugh- "to produce something of utility" (see doughty). Glossed in Old English as fifbec.
Example
- 1. Sampent the samaritan pentateuch used a quite different numbering system .
- 2. The pentateuch and book of joshua critically examined .
- 3. The promise of the pentateuch : I have already given you .