1) giving up, giving over
    1a) the act of giving up
    1b) the surrender of cities
 2) a giving over which is done by word of mouth or in writing,
    i.e. tradition by instruction, narrative, precept, etc.
    2a) objectively, that which is delivered, the substance of a
        teaching
    2b) of the body of precepts, esp. ritual, which in the opinion of
        the later Jews were orally delivered by Moses and orally
        transmitted in unbroken succession to subsequent generations,
        which precepts, both illustrating and expanding the written
        law, as they did were to be obeyed with equal reverence