Old Testament
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3.3
- proper noun
- /oʊld ˈtɛstəmənt/
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Antiguo Testamento
- The prophetical books of the Old Testament describe an intense cosmic battle.
- Old Testament prophets
- Old Testament story
- Old Testament laws
Often mistakenly cast as the God of the Old Testament versus the God of the the New Testament.
- Often mistakenly cast as the God of the Old Testament versus the God of the the New Testament.
- And you know, they're looking for a Messiah that fills all of the Old Testament prophecies.
- And it makes sense because the Old Testament does say you should worship God, not golden cows.
- Yeah, they call it Yalda Boeth, but they're talking about the God of the Old Testament.
- They are ideas that come to us through the Gospels, by way of the Old Testament.
- He was a religious fanatic, totally steeped in the Bible, steeped in the Old Testament.
- And if you read the New Testament, there's a few passages where they quote some Old Testament passage that says he will be born a Nazarene.
- So Adam through Muhammad you have many of the prophets that are mentioned in the Old Testament.
- OK, what about the Old Testament and everything else?
- sentence in the Old Testament is I am that I am
- in the Old Testament, there's a passage
- Religious psychopaths that have a punitive Old Testament desire to control women.
- My reference for that is the Old Testament.
- And what do you think about what is, what is your current stance on the idea that the, the Old Testament was originally Greek?
Examples
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The Old Testament contains many stories that are central to both Jewish and Christian faiths.
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And it makes sense because the Old Testament does say you should worship God, not golden cows.
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We now jump to the Old Testament, where we learn that losing is the condition of finding.
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Other parts of the Old Testament list the generations from Adam to Jesus.
Academic text (1993) -
It's named after this figure in the Old Testament, Seth, who is the son of Adam and Eve.
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It's like the Old Testament in the King James Bible translation, something which happens only once in a few centuries.
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Christianity is because everything about the Old Testament is, yes, it's a judeo-christian faith.
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Every single book of the Old Testament were found in these scrolls except for one book, which is the book of Esther.
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Henry admits to Diana that he's never really understood the Old Testament anyway.
Academic text (1993) -
And you know, they're looking for a Messiah that fills all of the Old Testament prophecies.
Synonyms
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3.8
The Jewish holy books that include the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings
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A set of Jewish sacred writings in three parts: the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings
A collection of Jewish holy books, including the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'old' (earlier/not new) combined with 'testament' (a division of scripture) yields the notion of the earlier/division part of the Bible. This structure is cross-linguistically common (e.g. Spanish 'Antiguo Testamento'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Old Testament gets its name from calling these sacred books the old 'testament' or promise made before Jesus, to show they come before the New Testament. That's why Old Testament means the books written before Jesus and important to both Jewish and Christian tradition.