Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Torah"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Torah \To"rah\, Tora \To"ra\, n.; pl. {Toroth}. [Heb.
t[=o]r[=a]h.] (Jewish Lit.)
(a) A law; a precept.

A considerable body of priestly Toroth. --S. R.
Driver.
(b) Divine instruction; revelation.

Tora, . . . before the time of Malachi, is
generally used of the revelations of God's will
made through the prophets. --T. K.
Cheyne.
(c) The Pentateuch or ``Law of Moses.''

The Hebrew Bible is divided into three parts: (1)
The Torah, ``Law,'' or Pentateuch. (2) The Prophets
. . . (3) The Kethubim, or the ``Writings,''
generally termed Hagiographa. --C. H. H.
Wright.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

Torah
n : the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures
comprising the first five books of the Old Testament
considered as a unit [syn: {Pentateuch}, {Torah}, {Laws}]

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