Pentateuch

[ pen-tuh-took, -tyook ]

/ ˈpɛn təˌtuk, -ˌtyuk /

the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

Origin of Pentateuch

< Late Latin Pentateuchus < Late Greek pentáteuchos, equivalent to Greek penta- penta- + teûchos tool, vessel (Late Greek: scroll case book)

Pen·ta·teuch·al, adjective

But even this sublimated essence of the pentateuchal doctrine (if it be such) remains as discordant with natural science as ever.

The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature |Thomas Henry Huxley
The tribunal of the Synhedrion was filled with painful anxiety as to the rigid execution of pentateuchal ordinances.

History of the Jews, Vol. V (of 6) |Heinrich Graetz
Maimonides's ethics as well as his interpretation of the Pentateuchal laws is intellectualistic, as the foregoing account shows.

A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy |Isaac Husik
If we keep this clearly before our minds, the Pentateuchal controversy will lose its sharpest points of conflict.

Expositor's Bible: Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther |Walter Adeney

The belief underlies the Pentateuchal enactments regarding the holding of the soil, which is only to be temporary.

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria |Morris Jastrow

Pentateuch

/ (ˈpɛntəˌtjuːk) /

the first five books of the Old Testament regarded as a unity

Pentateuchal, adjective

C16: from Church Latin pentateuchus, from Greek penta- + teukhos tool (in Late Greek: scroll)