tora — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
tora is used for these senses in English:
- log The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.
log — full definition
- noun A section of a tree trunk, especially one cleared of branches, used for timber or fuel.
- noun A written record of events, especially a ship's or aircraft's progress, or of computer activity.
- verb To cut down trees, especially commercially.
- verb To record something in writing or in a system.
Torah — full definition
- name The five books traditionally attributed to Moses at the start of the Hebrew Bible — Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
- noun A handwritten scroll containing these five books, used in synagogue worship.
- name More broadly, the whole body of Jewish religious law and teaching, written and oral.