Testament

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  • noun. Something that serves as tangible proof or evidence.
  • noun. A statement of belief; a credo.
  • noun. A usually formal, written directive providing for the disposition of one's property after death; a will.
  • noun. Either of the two main divisions of the Bible.
  • noun. A covenant between humans and God.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In law, a will; a disposition of property or rights, to take effect at death.
  • noun. A disposition of the rights of two parties, defining their mutual relation, and the rights conceded by one to the other; a covenant, especially between God and his people.
  • noun. Hence A dispensation: used especially of the Mosaic or old dispensation and of the Christian or new.
  • noun. [capitalized] A collection of books containing the history and doctrines of each of these dispensations, and known severally as the Old Testament and the New Testament.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his will as to disposal of his estate and effects after his death.
  • noun. One of the two distinct revelations of God's purposes toward man; a covenant; also, one of the two general divisions of the canonical books of the sacred Scriptures, in which the covenants are respectively revealed
  • noun. a testament written wholly by the testator himself.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his or her will as to disposal of his or her inheritance (estate and effects) after his or her death, benefiting specified heir(s).
  • noun. One of the two parts to the scriptures of the Christian religion: the New Testament, considered by Christians to be a continuation of the Hebrew scriptures, and the Hebrew scriptures themselves, which they refer to as the Old Testament.
  • noun. A tangible proof or tribute.
  • noun. A credo, expression of conviction
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. strong evidence for something
  • noun. either of the two main parts of the Christian Bible
  • noun. a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die
  • noun. a profession of belief
  • Word Usage
    "Hence, besides, it is doing no service to the interpretation of the Scriptures, to attempt to shew that in the passage of the Epistle to the Hebrews, [455] where the covenant is represented as a testament, either that the term διαθηχη there, must have only the meaning _testament_, or that it must be rendered _covenant_ exclusively throughout."
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    Wills  covenant  newe  
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    covenant  wild  will