English noun: Apocrypha |
1. | Apocrypha (communication) 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 |
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| Broader (hypernym) | religious text, religious writing, sacred text, sacred writing |
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| Part holonym | 1 Esdras, 1 Maccabees, 2 Esdras, 2 Maccabees, Additions to Esther, Baruch, Bel and the Dragon, Ben Sira, Book of Baruch, Book of Judith, Book of Susanna, Book of Tobit, Ecclesiasticus, Epistle of Jeremiah, I Esdra, I Maccabees, II Esdras, II Maccabees, Judith, Letter of Jeremiah, Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Children, Sirach, Susanna, Tobit, Wisdom, Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, Wisdom of Solomon |
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| Part meronym | Old Testament |
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| Domain category members | Holofernes, Judith |
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