Definition of Dead Sea scrolls

1. Noun. (Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late 1940s. "The Dead Sea Scrolls provide information about Judaism and the Bible around the time of Jesus"

Generic synonyms: Roll, Scroll
Category relationships: Old Testament

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dead Sea Scrolls

dead language
dead letter
dead load
dead mail
dead march
dead metaphor
dead nerve
dead nettle
dead on target
dead person
dead pulp
dead reckoning
dead ringer
dead room
Dead Sea
Dead Sea scrolls (current term)
dead set(p)
dead soul
dead space
dead tooth
dead tracts
dead weight
deae-cellulose
deae-dextran
deaerate
deaerated
deaerates
deaerating
deaeration
deaeration

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