Torah תּוֹרָה

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Torah
תּוֹרָה
Transliterationtorah
Strong's numberH8451
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechfeminine noun
Glossinstruction
Occurrences219 in 213 verses
Most frequent inPsalms (35)

Torah (Hebrew תּוֹרָה, Strong's H8451) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “instruction”. It occurs 219 times in 213 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) law, direction, instruction
1a) instruction, direction (human or divine)
1a1) body of prophetic teaching
1a2) instruction in Messianic age
1a3) body of priestly direction or instruction
1a4) body of legal directives
1b) law
1b1) law of the burnt offering
1b2) of special law, codes of law
1c) custom, manner
1d) the Deuteronomic or Mosaic Law

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVlaw (205), laws (13), ye the law (1)
BSBlaw (107), your law (30), is the law (18), laws (11), instruction (11), my law (9), his law (5), my instruction (4), teaching (3), my laws (2), according to the law (2), his laws (2), and 14 other renderings

Topics

Verses

Every verse with Torah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Ezekiel

Daniel

Hosea

Amos

Micah

Habakkuk

Zephaniah

Haggai

Zechariah

Malachi

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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