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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.