Deuteronomy

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Deu·ter·on·o·my

 (do͞o′tə-rŏn′ə-mē, dyo͞o′-)
n.
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[Late Latin deuteronomium, from Greek deuteronomion, a second law (from (to) deuteronomion (touto), Septuagint mistranslation of Hebrew mišnê hattôrâ hazzō't, a copy of this law) : deuteros, second; see deu- in Indo-European roots + nomos, law; see nem- in Indo-European roots.]

Deu′ter·o·nom′ic (-tər-ə-nŏm′ĭk) adj.
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Deuteronomy

(ˌdjuːtəˈrɒnəmɪ)
n
(Bible) the fifth book of the Old Testament, containing a second statement of the Mosaic Law
[from Late Latin Deuteronomium, from Greek Deuteronomion; see deutero-, -nomy]
Deuteronomic adj
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Deu•ter•on•o•my

(ˌdu təˈrɒn ə mi, ˌdyu-)

n.
the fifth book of the Pentateuch.
[< Late Latin Deuteronomium < Greek Deuteronómion]
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Noun1.Deuteronomy - the fifth book of the Old Testament; contains a second statement of Mosaic law
mezuza, mezuzah - religious texts from Deuteronomy inscribed on parchment and rolled up in a case that is attached to the doorframe of many Jewish households in accordance with Jewish law
Laws, Pentateuch, Torah - the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit
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Deuteronomy

[ˌdjuːtəˈrɒnəmɪ] NDeuteronomio m
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Deuteronomy

ndas fünfte Buch Mose(s), Deuteronomium nt (spec)
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Deuteronomy

[ˌdjuːtəˈrɒnəmɪ] nDeuteronomio
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(21) Similarly, a number of early rabbinic sources such as Mekhilta de-Rabbi Ishmael Parashat Mishpatim 9 and Sifre Devarim Pisqa 182 speak of the responsibility for a father to lash his son (r.d.h) or a teacher to lash his student (r.d.h).
Noah's behavior is critically compared in Devarim Rabbah (V'zot ha-Brakha, 11:3) with that of Moses, who pleaded with God to spare the Israelites after the sin of the Golden Calf.
But Halkin cites a powerful-playful midrash on Moses' death from Yalkut Shim'oni, Devarim 31, that has him fighting tooth and nail against earthly extinction.
Agnon's death, his daughter, Emunah Yaron, published To the Galilee in Hebrew as "HaGalilah," in a collection entitled Pithei Devarim. (In fact, at one point toward the story's end, we discover that the entire story is being told to the narrator's daughter.) The manuscript seems to have been a fragment from a larger work undertaken in the mid-1950s called "HaDom vehaKisse" ("The Footstool and the Throne," as yet untranslated), which mixes elements of memoir and fiction.
Tzedek, 'justice,' is a key word in the book of Devarim [Deuteronomy]--most famously in the verse: "Justice, justice you shall pursue, so that you may thrive and occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you" (Deut.
Nella denominazione incipitaria del canone ebraico, questo testo si chiama Devarim, cioe "parole": "Queste sono le parole che Mose rivolse a Israele di la dal Giordano" (1:1).
See Gershom Scholem's critique, "Jewishness and Germanness" (Hebrew), in Devarim be-Go (Tel Aviv: 'Am Oved, 1976), 96-113.
"Kazde misto, na ktere stoupnes svym chodidlem, bude pak vase, a vase hranice bude od pouste po Levanon a od reky, od reky Frat, az po Zadni more." Devarim 11:24 (1)
Dorman M (Ed.), 1986 Al Ha-hityashvut: Kovets Devarim, 1915-1956 [On settlement: collected writings 1915-1956] (Hakibutz HaMeuchad, Tel Aviv)
(39) The serpent is said to have whispered against God (riggen devarim 'al bore'o).