'Tanakh' definitions:
Definition of 'Tanakh'
From: WordNet
noun
The Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the Torah and the Prophets and the Writings [syn: Tanakh, Tanach, Hebrew Scripture]
Definition of 'Tanakh'
From: GCIDE
- Tanak \Tanak\, Tanakh \Tanakh\, n. [From the initial (Hebrew) letters of Torah, Nevi'im, and Kethubim.] a term used among Jews for the Hebrew Bible; the Old Testament. [Also spelled Tanach.]
- Note: Although Christians use the term "Old Testament", this term implies the superseding force of the "New Testament", not recognized as revelation by the Jewish faith. [PJC]
- 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]