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Chumash (Judaism)

The Hebrew term Chumash (also Ḥumash; , or or Yiddish: ) is a Torah in printed form (i.e. codex) as opposed to a Torah scroll. The word comes from the Hebrew word for five, ḥamesh (חמש). A more formal term is Ḥamishah Ḥumshei Torah, "five fifths of Torah". It is a Hebrew name for the Five Books of Moses, also known by the Latinised Greek term Pentateuch in common printed editions.

Chumash

Chumash may refer to:

  • Chumash (Judaism), a Hebrew word for the Pentateuch, used in Judaism
  • Chumash people, a Native American people of southern California
  • Chumashan languages, indigenous languages of California
  • Chumash traditional narratives
  • Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park in California
  • Chumash Wilderness, wilderness area in the mountains of northern Ventura County and southwestern Kern County in California

Usage examples of "chumash".

If the Chumash Powers were still around, hanging by a metaphorical fingernail, would bringing in leprechauns rob them of the tiny measure of devotion they needed to survive?

Getting to Bakhtiars Precision Burins and Chocolate Weasel sprang from trying to get to the bottom of what was going on at the Devonshire dump, and of course the Chumash Powers study and the one on leprechauns were almost incestuously intertwined.

I have been unable to contact or detect them in any way, either by recreating the old Chumash rituals or through modem scientific sorcery.

The poor Chumash, though, have been so thoroughly dispossessed and assimilated over the last couple of hundred years that no one believes any more in the Powers they once revered.

Barony of Angels so the Powers could have free rein as they did in the days when the Chumash lived here.

The experiments I have conducted however, do indicate that the Powers formerly venerated by the Chumash Indians are not currently manifesting themselves in the Barony of Angels.

Absurdly, I wondered whether the Chumash First People and Sky Coyote had gotten the idea from the parading succubi.

After a moment, I realized that was impossible: the Chumash Powers had disappeared before the sexual demons went on the march.

I was uncertain whether the Chumash Powers were extinct or had, so to speak, encysted themselves on the Other Side, abandoning all contact with This Side for an indefinite period, perhaps in the hope of being lured back Here should more worshipers appear to propitiate them.

This Side is presently located We would have expected it to be in the extreme northwest of the Barony of Angels, for that was formerly Chumash territory, but, as I say, we have not succeeded in detecting it I hope that, with your greater resources, the Environmental Perfection Agency will do what we have not accomplished Good day.

But the Chumash, till this moment have never posed a danger to the Confederation.

The ones on the Chumash Lizard looked to be a couple of inches long, and it had a whole mouthful of them.

Up against the Garuda Bird, the Chumash Eagle might as well have been a sparrow.

What did thwarting the Chumash Powers have to do with the liquidation of the Aztecian cabinet, for instance?

One-fourth of Los Angeles County is undeveloped -- the Mojave Desert and Angeles National Forest, thousands of square acres of chaparral-covered hills rising into the wooded San Gabriel Mountains, where the Chumash used to spend their summers hunting mule deer.