Definitions for Old-Testament

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Old-Testament Old Testament

Old-Testament is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 1195 anagrams from letters in Old-Testament (-adeelmnosttt).

Definitions for Old-Testament

noun

1. the first of the two main divisions of the Christian Bible, comprising the Law, the Prophets, and the Hagiographa. In the Vulgate translation all but two books of the Apocrypha are included in the Old Testament.
2. this testament considered as the complete Bible of the Jews.
3. the covenant between God and Israel on Mount Sinai, constituting the basis of the Hebrew religion. Ex. 19–24; Jer. 31:31–34; II Cor. 3:6, 14.

Origin of Old-Testament

1300-50; Middle English; translation of Late Latin Vetus Testamentum, translation of Greek Palaià Diathḗkē

Examples for Old-Testament

In the Old Testament, a man can divorce his wife for any reason at all.

Remember the wonderful instances we have of it in the Old Testament saints.

In the Old Testament, the heart is not an island of emotion, but the seat of understanding and will.

He liked opposition, and was as fond of warfare as an Old Testament hero.

Its ideas entered the religion of the Old Testament by several roads.

Melchizedek was an Old Testament king who also appears in the Book of Mormon.

After the Civil War, the Old Testament never regained its prominence in American myth.

In the Old Testament it is permitted to no priest to wear the tonsure.

There are six of these instances in all: one in the Old Testament, and five in the New.

Over the course of the Old Testament God firms up the regulations about consuming shellfish and pork.