Tanakh

American  

[tah-nahkh] / tɑˈnɑx /

Or Tanach

noun

Hebrew.

1. the Jewish Scripture, comprising the Law or Torah, the Prophets or Neviim, and the Writings or Ketuvim.

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Etymology

Origin of Tanakh

First recorded in 1830–40; vocalization of Hebrew TNK, abbreviation of Tôrāh Torah ( def. ) + Nĕvî'îm Neviim ( def. ) + Kĕthûvîm Ketuvim ( def. )

Example Sentences

In the Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible, Amalek is a nation whose soldiers ambushed the Israelites as they made their way to the Promised Land.

From Salon • Nov. 13, 2023

At the time of Philo, the Jewish Bible consisted of the five books of Moses, known as the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the later books that make up the Tanakh.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

By that time, the Egyptian faith had changed remarkably little for nearly a millennium, despite the lack of a central religious text – no Qur’an, no Bible, no Tanakh.

From The Guardian • Apr. 26, 2019

In the crowd were upper-East-Siders Kaz Tanakh and Mark Conrad, self-described transit die-hards who wore New Year’s Eve party hats directed with yellow “Q” stickers to celebrate the opening of the stations.

From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2017

Judaism is the native faith of the Jewish people, based upon the belief in a covenant of responsibility between a sole omnipotent creator God and Abraham, the patriarch of Judaism's Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh.

From The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency