Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun law_of_moses

1 sense of law of moses

Sense 1
Mosaic law, Law of Moses -- (the laws (beginning with the Ten Commandments) that God gave to the Israelites through Moses; it includes many rules of religious observance given in the first five books of the Old Testament (in Judaism these books are called the Torah))
       => law, jurisprudence -- (the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order")