['tɔ:rә]
n.
教训, 神谕

Torah \To"rah\, Tora \To"ra\, n.; pl. {Toroth}. [Heb.
t[=o]r[=a]h.] (Jewish Lit.)
(a) A law; a precept.

A considerable body of priestly Toroth. --S. R.
Driver.
(b) Divine instruction; revelation.

Tora, . . . before the time of Malachi, is
generally used of the revelations of God's will
made through the prophets. --T. K.
Cheyne.
(c) The Pentateuch or ``Law of Moses.''

The Hebrew Bible is divided into three parts: (1)
The Torah, ``Law,'' or Pentateuch. (2) The Prophets
(Nevi'im in Hebrew) . . . (3) The Kethubim, or the
``Writings,'' generally termed Hagiographa. From
the first letters of these three parts, the word
``Tanakh'' is derived, and used by Jews as the name
of their Bible, the Christian Old Testament. --C.
H. H. Wright.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]