Old Testament

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Etymology

A retronym, by comparison with the New Testament.

Proper noun

Old Testament

1. The first major part of the Christian Bible, covering events before the coming of Christ, corresponding roughly to the Jewish Tanakh. Usually subdivided into the categories of law, history, poetry (or wisdom books) and prophecy.

   The Old Testament says that eating shellfish is a sin.

Translations

first half of the Christian Bible

• Albanian: Besëlidhja e Vjetër (sq)
• Arabic: العهد القديم (ar) (al-3ahd al-qadiim) m
• Armenian: Հին կտակարան (hy) (Hin ktakaran)
• Asturian: Antiguu Testamentu (ast) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舊約聖經 (cmn), 旧约圣经 (cmn) (Jiùyuē Shèngjīng), 舊約全書 (cmn), 旧约全书 (cmn) (Jiùyuē Quánshū)

• Czech: Starý zákon (cs) m
• Dutch: Oude Testament (nl) n
• Esperanto: Malnova Testamento (eo)
• Finnish: Vanha testamentti (fi), Vanha Testamentti (fi)
• French: Ancien Testament (fr) m
• German: Altes Testament (de) n
• Hungarian: Ószövetség (hu), Ótestamentum (hu)
• Icelandic: Gamla testamentið (is) n
• Italian: Antico Testamento (it) m
• Japanese: 旧約聖書 (ja) (きゅうやくせいしょ, Kyūyaku Seisho)
• Korean: 구약 성서 (ko) (Guyak Seongseo) (舊約聖書 (ko))

• Latin: Vetus Testāmentum (la) n
• Macedonian: Стар Завет (mk) (Stár Závet) m
• Maltese: It-Testment il-Qadim (mt)
• Persian: عهد عتیق (fa) ('Ahd-e 'Atiq)
• Polish: Stary Testament (pl) m
• Romanian: Vechiul Testament (ro) n (The Old Testament)
• Russian: Ветхий Завет (ru) (Vétxij Zavét) m
• Scottish Gaelic: an Seann Tiomnadh (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Стари Завет (sh) m, Стари Завјет (sh) m

  Roman: Stari Zavet (sh) m, Stari Zavjet (sh) m

• Slovene: Stara Zaveza (sl) f
• Spanish: Antiguo Testamento (es) m
• Swedish: Gamla testamentet (sv)
• Vietnamese: Cựu Ước (vi)
• Volapük: Diatek Vönik (vo)
• Welsh: Hen Destament (cy)

See also

• Hebrew Scriptures
• New Testament
• Tanakh
• Final Testament