Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Leviticus
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- proper noun Abbreviation of
Leviticus .
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Examples
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I told him that I was not a run-away, and neither was my name Lev., as they used to call me in the country.
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But the prohibition in Lev. 18 and 20 comes in the midst of directly similar prohibitions against other sexual acts: incest, adultery and bestiality.
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The term used in Lev. 18: 22 and 20: 13, which prohibit mischav, zachor, is ‘toevah’, which means morally repugnant or despicable.
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She had only been there for an hour, and they were already calling her Lev.
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EveryChild, an international children's charity, said it was concerned by the singer's announcement that he and partner David Furnish, 46, wanted to adopt a 14-month-old boy called Lev.
unknown title 2009
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EveryChild, an international children's charity, said it was concerned by the singer's announcement that he and partner David Furnish, 46, wanted to adopt a 14-month-old boy called Lev.
unknown title 2009
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EveryChild, an international children's charity, said it was concerned by the singer's announcement that he and partner David Furnish, 46, wanted to adopt a 14-month-old boy called Lev.
icScotland 2009
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What I do know is the Paul was born Jewish and spent the part of his life before conversion to Christianity as an observant Jew, so he would have been very familiar with the fact that the Jews — including the Sages who compiled the Talmud — understood the verses in Lev. as stating that male homosexual intercourse was both a severe sin and a capital crime (capital punishment, however, being one of the aspects of sovereignty that the Romans did not permit the Jews to exercise).
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Take the response from a senior Ukrainian politician to Elton John’s request to adopt a 14-month-old Ukrainian baby called Lev.
Stick to buying perfume and forget about kids, Sir Elton 2009
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Yet in passages such as Lev. 22: 16 it refers to things which Boswell and most traditionalists classify as mere ceremonial purity.
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