How to Pronounce Deuteronomy
dyoo-ter-AH-num-mee
Deuteronomy is pronounced dyoo-ter-AH-num-mee: five syllables, stress on the third. Also heard: doo-tuh-RON-uh-mee.
What does Deuteronomy mean?
Deuteronomy means “repetition of the law”.
Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.
What is Deuteronomy?
In all the Hebrew manuscripts the Pentateuch (q.v.) forms one roll or volume divided into larger and smaller sections called parshioth_ and _sedarim. It is not easy to say when it was divided into five books. This was probably first done by the Greek translators of the book, whom the Vulgate follows. The fifth of these books was called by the Greeks Deuteronomion, i.e., the second law, hence our name Deuteronomy, or a second statement of the laws already promulgated. The Jews designated the book by the two first Hebrew words that occur, _’Elle haddabharim_, i.e., “These are the words.” They divided it into eleven parshioth. In the English Bible it contains thirty-four chapters.
Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.