Altes Testament

/[ˌaltəs tɛstaˈmɛnt]/ phrase

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German

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Altes Testament is aGermanphrase. It means: die übliche Bezeichnung für die ins Griechische übertragene jüdische Sammlung biblischer Bücher, die aus den drei Hauptteilen der Tora, der Nevi'im und den Ketubim, die unter anderem aus den Psalme... Pronounced [ˌaltəs tɛstaˈmɛnt].

Key facts for Altes Testament
PropertyValue
HeadwordAltes Testament
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˌaltəs tɛstaˈmɛnt]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Altes Testament is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Altes Testament is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌaltəs tɛstaˈmɛnt]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for Altes Testament in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Altes Testament, spelled A-L-T-E-S- -T-E-S-T-A-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    die übliche Bezeichnung für die ins Griechische übertragene jüdische Sammlung biblischer Bücher, die aus den drei Hauptteilen der Tora, der Nevi'im und den Ketubim, die unter anderem aus den Psalmen, den Sprüchen und dem Buch Iob besteht
  2. 2
    diejenige heilsgeschichtliche Periode, die mit dem Bund Gottes mit Abraham beginnt, ihren eigentlichen Mittelpunkt im Auszug Israels aus Ägypten und im Bund des auserwählten Volkes am Sinai hat und die mit dem Tod und der Auferstehung Christi ihre Erfüllung findet.

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How do you spell "Altes Testament"?
"Altes Testament" is spelled A-L-T-E-S- -T-E-S-T-A-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌaltəs tɛstaˈmɛnt].
What does "Altes Testament" mean?
As a phrase, "Altes Testament" means: die übliche Bezeichnung für die ins Griechische übertragene jüdische Sammlung biblischer Bücher, die aus den drei Hauptteilen der Tora, der Nevi'im und den Ketubim, die unter anderem aus den Psalme...
How do you pronounce "Altes Testament"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Altes Testament" is [ˌaltəs tɛstaˈmɛnt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Altes Testament" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.