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Hammurabi

Hammurabi

3 9.3
A king of ancient Babylon who made one of the earliest written law codes
  • proper noun
  • /hæməˈrɑbi/
: Hammurabi
  • For example, as part of their investigation about the Code of Hammurabi, sixth-grade students in George Martin's social studies class studied the list of 282 written laws.
  • Hammurabi's Code

I mean, literally back when the Hammurabi Code was being written, there were regulated interest rates.

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Examples

  • What Hammurabi's code did achieve, for all its failings and inequities, was to specifically define crimes and their punishments.

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  • The Code of Hammurabi is one of the oldest written legal codes in existence.

  • I came across this the other day in the Code of Hammurabi.

    Academic text (1994)

  • The law code of Hammurabi.

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  • The Code of Hammurabi from the second Millennium BC is really quite similar in its essence.

  • They examine the Code of Hammurabi and consider an ancient view of jurisprudence and rights.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Humanity's first written laws, recorded in Hammurabi's Code, were housed at the Iraq Museum.

    Academic text (2003)

  • King Hammurabi of Babylon was regulating commerce in the 18th century B.C. in his legal code.

    Blog text (24)

  • Several thousand years before Christ, Hammurabi's famous legal code would describe the clan leader as a shepherd chosen "to care for the people and cause them to dwell in peace and security, that the great should not oppress the weak."

    Academic text (2005)

  • The Law of Hammurabi, which was engraved on basalt stone by the order of Hammurabi, the sixth king of Babylon, contains 282 articles on criminal law, civil law, and business law.

    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)

Synonyms

Hammurapi
vsHammurabi
1 9.8

A Babylonian king about 1800 BC who made one of the first written law codes

has identical meaning but uses a different historical spelling

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Hammurabi probably comes from an old Babylonian name Ammurapi, which is often said to mean 'the family member is a healer' or 'the god is a healer'. So, although the name is about healing, we remember Hammurabi today as the king who made the famous Code of laws.