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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The first seven books of the Old Testament.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The first seven books of the Old Testament.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The first seven books of the Testament.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun The first
seven books of theHebrew Bible .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Even if we ignore the earliest piecemeal efforts in the eighth century, the translation of the four gospels in the tenth century and the Old English prose Heptateuch around the year 1000 deserve a prominent place in any history of translations of the Bible.
Translating the Bible Donoghue, Daniel 2005
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But if any consent that he owned the Heptateuch we have already mentioned, we should be ready to reckon the last chapter of
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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The books of the law and their order need not be insisted upon, commonly called by us, the Pentateuch; but by some of the Rabbins, the Heptateuch; and by some Christians, the Octateuch.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Lipsiensis (seventh century; in Univ. of Leipzig) contains fragments of Heptateuch.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Gregory gave much of his time to lecturing on the Holy Scriptures and is recorded to have expounded to his monks the Heptateuch, Books of Kings, the Prophets, the Book of Proverbs, and the Canticle of V+Canticles.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Fathers, or something else which will edify the hearers; nor, however, the Heptateuch, or Book of Kings, for it will not be profitable for weak understandings to hear this part of Scripture at that hour; yet at other times it may be read.
The Life of Our most Holy Father S. Benedict c. 540-604 1898
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It was first printed as prose by Thwaites at the close of his "Heptateuch, Book of Job, and Gospel of Nicodemus"
Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems Anonymous 1878
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a short commentary on the Heptateuch based on patristic sources and written by this John.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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