| 1. anything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law,
a command 1) of any law whatsoever 1a1. a law or rule producing a state approved of God 1a 1) by the observance of which is approved of God 1a2. a precept or injunction 1a3. the rule of action prescribed by reason 2) of the Mosaic law, and referring, acc. to the context. either to the volume of the law or to its contents 3) the Christian religion: the law demanding faith, the moral instruction given by Christ, esp. the precept concerning love 4) the name of the more important part (the Pentateuch), is put for the entire collection of the sacred books of the OT |