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Torah

Hebrew 'instruction, teaching' — narrowly the Five Books of Moses, broadly all of Jewish law and learning. Greek translated it as nomos 'law', which is why English Bibles say 'the Law'; through Arabic at-tawrāh the name reached Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Malay, Swahili and Hausa.

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From Biblical Hebrew to Arabic

From Arabic to Persian

From Persian to Ottoman Turkish, Turkish

From Persian to Urdu

From Arabic to Malay

From Arabic to Swahili

From Arabic to Hausa

From Biblical Hebrew to Yiddish

From Biblical Hebrew to Modern Hebrew

600 BCEBiblical Hebrew

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