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תּוֹרָה

torah

pronounced to-RAH

Teaching, instruction

In Scripture World English Bible

This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 4:44 The Torah names itself — the teaching Moses set before Israel

This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Joshua 1:8 Torah as something meditated on and lived, not merely read

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

Psalm 1:2 The Psalter opens by defining the blessed life as delight in Torah

They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.

Nehemiah 8:8 Ezra's public reading — the model for teaching Torah so people understand

Taught in

A stone arch opening toward the land at dawn

Shalom: The Word That Means Whole

Full guide: 9 min · 14 chapters · 8 Hebrew words A figure sounding the shofar, ivory woodcut on a deep pomegranate field

Rosh Hashanah: The Sound That Interrupts Us

Full guide: 10 min · 7 chapters · 20 Hebrew words Two ivory goats facing opposite directions in an indigo wilderness, illustrated in a woodcut style

Yom Kippur: Once for All

Full guide: 12 min · 7 chapters · 24 Hebrew words

Nearby words

ma shlomkhaמַה שְׁלוֹמְךָ messiahמָשִׁיחַ shabbatשַׁבָּת shabbat shalomשַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם shalomשָׁלוֹם shalom lekhemשָׁלוֹם לָכֶם

How it reads in the app

The same lexicon, opened in IsraelForYou: pick a word from the list and its card opens — script, sound, and every verse it lives in.

Hebrew words
  • מה שלומך ma shlomkha “How are you?” — literally “how is your…
  • משיח messiah Mashiach — the anointed one
  • תורה torah Teaching, instruction
  • שבת shabbat To stop, to sit — the seventh-day rest
  • שבת שלום shabbat shalom The Sabbath greeting — a wish for rest that…