[toh-ruh, tawr-uh; Seph. Heb. toh-rah; Ashk. Heb. toh-ruh, toi-ruh] 
) | 1. | the Pentateuch, being the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament. Compare Tanach. |
| 2. | a parchment scroll on which the Pentateuch is written, used in synagogue services. |
| 3. | the entire body of Jewish religious literature, law, and teaching as contained chiefly in the Old Testament and the Talmud. |
| 4. | law or instruction. |
| To·rah also to·rah (tôr'ə, tōr'ə, toir'ə, tô-rä') n. Judaism
[Hebrew tôrâ, law, instruction, from hôrâ, to throw, direct, teach, derived stem of yārâ, to throw, shoot; see wrw in Semitic roots.] |