apocrypha
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1. 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status (noun.communication)
| part holonym | : | additions to esther, |
| definition | : | an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Esther (noun.communication) |
| part holonym | : | book of susanna, susanna, |
| definition | : | an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Daniel (noun.communication) |
| part holonym | : | bel and the dragon, |
| definition | : | an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Daniel (noun.communication) |
| part holonym | : | baruch, book of baruch, |
| definition | : | an Apocryphal book ascribed to Baruch (noun.communication) |
| part holonym | : | epistle of jeremiah, letter of jeremiah, |
| definition | : | an Apocryphal book consisting of a letter ascribed to Jeremiah to the Jews in exile in Babylon warning them against idolatry (noun.communication) |
| part holonym | : | book of tobit, tobit, |
| definition | : | an Apocryphal book that was a popular novel for several centuries (noun.communication) |
| part holonym | : | book of judith, judith, |
| definition | : | an Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people (noun.communication) |
| part holonym | : | 1 esdras, i esdra, |
| definition | : | an Apocryphal book consisting of a compilation from I Chronicles and II Chronicles and Ezra and Nehemiah (noun.communication) |
| part holonym | : | 2 esdras, ii esdras, |
| definition | : | an Apocryphal book of angelic revelations (noun.communication) |
| part holonym | : | wisdom, wisdom of solomon, |
| definition | : | an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC (noun.communication) |
| part holonym | : | 1 maccabees, i maccabees, |
| definition | : | an Apocryphal book describing the life of Judas Maccabaeus (noun.communication) |
| part holonym | : | 2 maccabees, ii maccabees, |
| definition | : | an Apocryphal book describing the life of Judas Maccabaeus (noun.communication) |
| part meronym | : | old testament, |
| definition | : | the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible (noun.communication) |
| domain member category | : | judith, |
| definition | : | Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | holofernes, |
| definition | : | (Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith (noun.person) |
| derivation | : | apocryphal, |
| definition | : | of or belonging to the Apocrypha (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | apocryphal, |
| definition | : | of or belonging to the Apocrypha (adj.pert) |
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